Monday, November 2, 2026

Debunking the so-called "Refnation poll on Scottish independence for the Daily Express"


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52 comments:

  1. Refreshingly I hadn't heard of this nutter but if you want accurate news best to stay less aquainted

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  2. For the umpteenth time, will people please stop swearing. Your comments will be deleted no matter what else is in them.

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    1. Swearing has become so common place nowadays. Has its place but shouldn't be a comma like it seems to be for some

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  3. Decent Scots? Not sure you are the person to judge

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  4. Good to see that the Express is outed again. A bit like the Nurse Peggie who lost her court case today against the RCN. Who’s bankrolling her?

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    1. A billionaire author probably. Just like 'Tommy Robinson' is bankrolled by Musk

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    2. Sandie Peggie lost her case, goodness, what will the Herald write about now ?

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  5. Re Silver Fox:
    Ever since Philip Schofield fell out with Holly Willoughby he's had nothing else to do with his time

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  6. Let’s be honest, any poll that dosen’t show a Yes lead needs to be taken with a very large pinch of salt.

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    1. Hi, KC. At this stage you may even have a point.

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    2. I trust the polls a lot. I worked with two great lads from Gdansk. Big shout to Marek and Lech. Hi guys!

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    3. Anon@10:59pm, so you’re saying we should basically ignore all polls by YouGov and Ipsos?

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    4. Hi KC, again. We love it when you talk to yourself.

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    5. Polls polls everywhere and still no freedom in sight

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    6. 8:50, you’ll just have to keep dreaming.

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  7. 9.21. I’m a realist and what I’m seeing across Europe is Marxism on steroids and we’re kidding ourselves on talking about independence. What would an independent Scotland look like. Marxism and Islam running amok. We live in scary times.

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    1. A Reform voter opines.

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    2. I love the Marx bothers. Very funny

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    3. Take a big swig of your meths and fly back to WOS.

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    4. BRILLIANT!

      All the MAGA-Lite freaks, Reform/Restore cretins, Balaclava'd Nazis and assorted extreme right human trash will sod off elsewhere and the air will smell a heck of a lot fresher.

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    5. If you ask most Scots to choose between the vast, vast majority of decent, caring, hard working taxpaying and society-contributing Moslems in our welcoming and vibrant country - and the extreme right fascist thugs in Restore or Reform and the brainless jackbooted fascist morons roaming our streets flinging out their Nazi salutes and blatant racism in equal measures, most Scots will undoubtedly choose the former and completely reject the latter

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    6. 'FIFTY claims. That is how many Sandie Peggie – the NHS nurse at the centre of a media storm over her refusal to share a changing room with a trans woman – has had ruled on by a tribunal in the last 12 months.

      She’s lost 46 of them.

      In December last year, Peggie claimed a partial victory after a tribunal ruled that NHS Fife had harassed her in four ways – all of which related to the handling of her complaint.

      However, that ruling was also damning for Peggie – not least because 43 of her claims were dismissed. It found that she had:

      Harassed a trans doctor to the point where she breached both the Equality Act and NHS Fife's bullying and harassment policy.
      Shared racist jokes – and was then “untruthful” about it.

      Given sworn testimony to the tribunal that was “not reliable” and was “contradicted by evidence”.

      Accused others of lying – only for the tribunal to rule that her own testimony was “less reliable than theirs”.

      Sent messages which were “indicative of views which could be described as transphobic”.

      And alleged a conspiracy which the tribunal concluded did not exist.'

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  8. YouGov Westminster voting intention, field work 1st - 2nd Nov, population sample 2,355.
    Headline; Labour 2% lead (-3).
    Lab 26% (-1), Con 24% (+2), RefUK 21% (+1), LibDem 11% (n/c), Green 10% (n/c).

    Scottish sub-sample (205)
    Con 16%, Lab 15%, LibDem 13%, SNP 32%, RefUK 11%, Green 7%, Restore Oswald Mosley 5%.

    Electoral Calculus prediction model with Scottish finesse.
    Labour 37 seats short of majority.
    Lab 238, Con 159, RefUK 73, LibDem 57, SNP 43, Green 7, Plaid 3, other 1.

    Notes; Labour reduced to 3 seats in Scotland mibbies. Plaid Cymru at a stratospheric 34% in tiny sub-sample, so would sweep Wales. Restore Britain has higher support in Scotland than in any of the other constituent part of the island of Great Britain. Even with Plaid wiping out Labour in Wales, a Lab / LibDem coalition is still feasible.

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  9. Mibbes aye mibbes naw. Get yir fiddle oot while Europe burns. Hyperbole, I think not.

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  10. We were better together in 2014🇬🇧
    We’re still better together 🇬🇧
    We’ll always be better together 🇬🇧

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    1. An orange person comments.

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    2. Independence for ScotlandNovember 3, 2026 at 12:47 PM

      In what way are we better together KC at 11.44am. Still waiting for you to present your case that Scotland should remain a prisoner of England. You have had plenty of time to think about it - years since I first challenged you. Nothing from you means there is no case - all you have is posting rule Britannia and other meaningless and offensive drivel.

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    3. Change the record Ifs!
      I’m still waiting for you, or anyone else on here for that matter, to provide me with the “benefits of Indy”!!

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    4. KC, well the Gender Recognition Reform legislation would not have been blocked. The bottle return scheme would be up and running. Need I go on?

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    5. Anon@3:31pm,
      Well, that’s not a lot, but at least it’s something. More than Ifs has been able to come up with!
      Credit for at least having a shot at answering what I appreciate is a very challenging question.

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    6. Come on chaps, I’m, once again, waiting to hear about these “benefits of Indy”.
      Anon@3:31 started the ball rolling by mentioning Gender Reform and the Bottle Return Scheme. Is that it? Surely not!
      Surely if independence was such a good idea, as some on here claim, this would be an easy question to answer!
      Ifs, you in particular need to up your game! This ain’t a good look, from an “Indy” point of view!

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    7. Independence for ScotlandNovember 3, 2026 at 10:07 PM

      KC you may not be a perpetual liar like the other liar that poisons btl on SGP but you know fine well that I have previously posted the benefits of Indy in response to your challenge. You didn’t like what I said but that’s to be expected. All you have done is confirm you are a lying Britnat who has nothing to post to promote Westminster ruling Scotland.

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  11. Independence for ScotlandNovember 3, 2026 at 12:41 PM

    MI5 avoids contempt of court charges despite admitting to lying in court.
    Now we know why the alphabetties have not been prosecuted for lying in court. If you are lying for the British state you are immune to prosecution.

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    1. Baurheid numpty can sort it oot

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    2. Anon 12.56. You aren't a ATLS fan then ?

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  12. Scotland is not better together with England, England conquered our country then bribed a King with land and money to hand over his country, then England tried to convince Scots people we were all the same.
    England didn't say these things to all the other countries they conquered because most of them were a different colour
    Just because people are the same colour doesn't mean they are the same.
    A white Dalmation and a white Poodle are not the same just because they're white.
    England is using cod psychology to sell bad politics.
    Ukrainian refugees good, brown refugees from anywhere else bad, England is a Nazi style run country, it always has been since the original German Saxons beat the French Normans in their wars, and now we have the secret Jewish English Labour coalition of "we're not Nazis honest we're not"

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    1. What drivel!
      Quite frankly embarrassing!

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  13. Ffs. You for real.

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  14. 1.30. Who in Britain isn't a Nazi and the people that aren’t, according to you, are they extreme left marxist anarchists. There must be some folk left on these islands that are neither.

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  15. Who invented concentration camps? The British. Who invented partition? The British. Who did the British copy with their war mongering empire building strategies? The Romans.Who copied those exact ideas? Hitler.
    Nazis and their type are in every country involved in every walk of life just like bigots and sectarianists are your next door neighbours.
    You don't have to wear a uniform or march up and down to be one of them, you just have to vote Reform or Restore or Trump if you happen to be an American.
    You don't even have to understand what you're doing, it's a sick ideology perpetrated upon people's everywhere using propaganda.
    What's the first thing a conqueror does after invasion of a country?
    Take control of all media, communications, energy and transportation.
    England still holds total control of all of this to and from Scotland.

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  16. So that’s the Nazi sorted out, now what about the extreme left marxists and radical Islam, have you got a view on them or maybe they don’t exist in your world.

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    1. You forgot the right wing evangelicals or the pompous atheists or the ….

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  17. 3.29. To conflate Reform or Restore voters as Nazis is ludicrous and quite dangerous because there are nutcases out there, you being one of them, that actually believe it. Look what happened to poor Ann Widdecombe to see what this kind of rhetoric achieves.

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    1. Reform and Restore are giving the UK a taste of 1930s Germany.

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    2. Lmfao. Pure bollocks.

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    3. 7.58

      I agree.

      Those two extreme right parties are a complete throwback to the fascists of the 1930/40s.
      Same racist playbook, same blaming of powerless minorities and additionally a determination to now elevate and protect from criticism the extreme right fascist racist oligarchs who fund and direct their entire movements.

      The dumb, led by the nose by the elite scum.

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  18. FIFTY claims. That is how many Sandie Peggie – the NHS nurse at the centre of a media storm over her refusal to share a changing room with a trans woman – has had ruled on by a tribunal in the last 12 months.

    She’s lost 46 of them.

    In December last year, Peggie claimed a partial victory after a tribunal ruled that NHS Fife had harassed her in four ways – all of which related to the handling of her complaint.

    However, that ruling was also damning for Peggie – not least because 43 of her claims were dismissed. It found that she had:

    Harassed a trans doctor to the point where she breached both the Equality Act and NHS Fife's bullying and harassment policy.

    Shared racist jokes – and was then “untruthful” about it.

    Given sworn testimony to the tribunal that was “not reliable” and was “contradicted by evidence”.

    Accused others of lying – only for the tribunal to rule that her own testimony was “less reliable than theirs”.

    Sent messages which were “indicative of views which could be described as transphobic”.

    And alleged a conspiracy which the tribunal concluded did not exist.'

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    1. But she's a heroine to JK, the Rev and the Herald.

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    2. A woman. Adult human female. Simples. How come many lefties are freaks and anarchists.

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    3. Being Corry fisted is not that unusual

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  19. But she likes Harry Potter and hermione!

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