The SETTLED WILL KLAXON is sounding across Scotland this morning as yet ANOTHER Find Out Now poll shows a decisive pro-independence majority

Drama as yet more details of the rigged 2023 Alba NEC election emerge: key Salmond ally Hamish Vernal is exposed as another massive beneficiary of the suspicious voting patterns

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Analysis of new More In Common poll showing the SNP on course for big victory

Just a quick note to let you know that I have a new article at The National about the freshly-released More In Common poll, which has the SNP on course for 64 seats - the same as in 2021, but on a significantly lower share of the vote.  You can read the article HERE.

REVEALED: The secret results of Alba's rigged 2023 NEC elections, and the highly suspicious voting patterns that benefited three candidates - Abdul Majid, Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh and Christina Hendry (niece of Alex Salmond)

"Harken, brothers, what is that irritatingly persistent yet strangely compelling noise drifting hither from yonder hill?" "Fear not, brother, it is merely the SETTLED WILL KLAXON, indicating that Scotland has expressed its wish to become an independent country in a SIXTH consecutive survey from highly reputable polling firm Norstat"

REVEALED AT LAST: What Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh NEVER wanted you to know - the "secret" results of Alba's 2023 internal elections

In October 2023, Alex Salmond took to the stage of Alba's 2023 conference in Glasgow, theatrically brandishing what he claimed was a "black dossier" containing unspecified evidence of unspecified wrongdoing by unnamed individuals.  He insisted this supposed evidence meant he was justified in nullifying the results of the party's internal elections - something he had no authority to do under Alba's constitution.  But his story simply wasn't true, and he later admitted that no dossier ever existed.  There was in fact a very different and much more malicious reason for voiding the election results.  In the video below, I can for the first time reveal in full what those results actually were.  I also have more information about why Gail Hendry, the sister of Mr Salmond, dramatically resigned from the Alba NEC last week.  And there's a fascinating nugget about how Morgwn Davies, who was deselected as an Alba list candidate for Holyrood on the demand of the acting party chair, should now be automatically offered a place on the NEC on exactly the same "lucky loser" basis that Shannon Donoghue got her own place, due to the vacancies caused by recent resignations.  But will the party rules be followed, or will Morgwn be stitched up yet again?  The latter seems much more likely somehow.

REVEALED: It was the Alba Party's acting Chair, DEBBIE EWEN, who was behind the betrayal of the highly-respected Morgwn Davies and the latest trashing of what might laughably be called Alba's "internal democracy"

BREAKING: Alba takes another major step towards total disintegration, as the party's East Lothian branch passes a motion of no confidence in the party leader Kenny MacAskill, after he breaches the Alba constitution by overturning the democratic vote which had installed the highly-respected Morgwn Davies as the lead Holyrood list candidate

It shows you the level of (justified) paranoia within the ultra-Stalinist Alba party that three different people (who as far as I know are all unconnected with each other) have contacted me about a shocking development, which relates to the leadership's betrayal of one of the highest-regarded members of the party, but none of them actually directly mentioned who they were talking about.  One was dropping heavy hints in the hope I could it work it out by myself, but my mind had gone totally blank.  However, I think - touch wood - I have finally been able to piece together that it must be Morgwn Davies, because I've now seen screenshots of an email from the "Convener of Alba East Lothian", and judging from the Facebook page, Morgwn was still the Convener of Alba East Lothian on 26th January.

He is indeed an extremely decent and well-regarded man.  I know him mainly from my time on the Alba Disciplinary Committee in 2024, which was of course ironically curtailed by my own suspension and eventual expulsion from the party on absurd trumped-up charges, meaning the tables were turned and I had to attend a Disciplinary Committee hearing as a "defendant".  Morgwn was literally the only person at that meeting who wasn't a drone following strict leadership instructions to expel me, and if he hadn't been there I would never have known that they had outrageously questioned a secret witness (Hamish Vernal) without my knowledge, and I certainly would never have had any inkling of what Vernal had said.  In the previous committee meetings that year before my suspension, Morgwn had consistently and bravely demanded that due process be followed at all times while Chris McEleny and Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh were busily trying to get half the Alba membership suspended or expelled, with the eager assistance of the drones on the committee.

So it's no great surprise that the Alba leadership ended up shafting Morgwn too, although I suspect this may still be the final straw for many people who hadn't yet woken up the basic nature of the party they are members of.  Remember that we know the NEC is now firmly under Kenny MacAskill's control, so unlike on previous occasions this can't be blamed on shadowy figures behind the throne - the buck this time stops at the very top. Unsurprisingly Alba East Lothian, of which MacAskill is still a member (in spite of his NEC-mandated list candidacy in the north-east!) has passed a motion of no confidence in him.

Here is the text of Morgwn's email to East Lothian party members - 

"This is the most difficult email I have had to write as Convener of ALBA East Lothian.  On the 29th of January I felt honoured and privileged when I was informed that the outcome of the members' vote to list candidates for our region had placed me first with 44% of first preferences votes in a field of 4 candidates.

Some of you will have voted for me and I thank you for that.  

However, I will not be a candidate as I was informed, a mere twelve hours before the launch event, that I had contrary to the party's constitution, been deselected; not for anything I had done.

But as far as I can ascertain because two candidates withdrew and said they would not stand if I was the lead candidate.  Also, I was told the Executive of ALBA Edinburgh and some activists in Edinburgh had resigned because they wouldn't accept the democratic result and said they wouldn't work with me.  This was communicated to me a mere 12 hours before, what I had been told was the launch event for our candidates, in fact it turned out to be a secret launch and apart from Glasgow no candidates have been publicly unveiled.

So, because a dozen or so people were unhappy with the result the NEC voted 6 to 4 to deselect me.  

Since that meeting, 2 members of the NEC have resigned in protest, and the National Organisation Convener has resigned.  I don't know if that is linked to my deselection or for other reasons.  Also, one individual stood down as a candidate in their region in protest.  

So since the 13th of January the party has lost its Chair, National Membership Secretary and National Organiser.  Not great fun in the run-up to an election.

I am now considering whether I wish to remain a member of ALBA.  I will take a few days to reflect and think about it.

Our AGM did not take place on Wednesday evening as when I spoke to Kenny MacAskill about my deselection, he said it would not be appropriate to come and Chair ALBA LACU's AGM.

Instead we had an ordinary meeting and two motions were unanimously passed, one saying that ALBA East Lothian has no confidence in the party leader, Kenny MacAskill, for the role he played in overturning the members' vote.  The second was a vote of no confidence in the National Executive Council (sic) for overturning the members' vote.  

Today, Corri Wilson, the Party's Director of Operations will be informed of the two votes of no confidence.

The party has not been in touch with ALBA East Lothian to inform us of who the final candidates are for our region, for now it is a closely guarded secret.

There is nothing else to say."

Incidentally, I've seen a photo of the "secret launch" of Alba's list candidates (which I'd better not share with you just in case it somehow reveals my source), and in a grim way it is absolutely hilarious.  They all look utterly miserable.  Christina Hendry looks like she's either just witnessed a murder, or committed one herself.  I couldn't see the Crossmaglen Columbo (Chris Cullen) on the stage, which is interesting because I was told he was likely to get a plum spot on the list, but perhaps he just wasn't in the photo for some random reason. 

Morgwn's fate powerfully illustrates the truth of what I said only a couple of weeks ago in one of my videos - that Alba's members have no control over their party, because the leadership will simply nullify the result of any democratic vote they disapprove of.  This is essentially a carbon copy of Alex Salmond's outrageous decision (made under extreme pressure from Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh) to nullify the victories of Denise Findlay and Jacqueline Bijster in two office bearer elections in 2023. 

"The joke is over": Now even the SALMOND FAMILY have turned their backs on the shambolic Alba Party

Today brings the news of the resignation of Gail Hendry, Alex Salmond's sister, from the Alba NEC, and indeed after making the video below I was told that several other NEC members (plus at least one high-profile - but unnamed - Alba list candidate) have resigned with her. This of course follows hot on the heels of Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh's resignation as party chair, and suggests that the end for Alba may well be nigh.

 

Which leader did Anas Sarwar just bring down - was it Keir Starmer, or himself?

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Nigel Farage, so long the favourite to be the next Prime Minister, has slumped to only FIFTH favourite - but here's why that is paradoxically terrible news for Keir Starmer

This video also contains more information about the More In Common independence polling I mentioned yesterday.

   

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"Well, they're certainly keeping quiet about THAT bit!": More In Common poll appears to show 53% support for independence

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My appearance on the "Two Davies" show

Earlier today, I took part in a live stream on the "Two Davies" YouTube channel, and we all answered viewers' questions about quite a wide variety of subjects, including the current polling situation, the Act of Union, Liberate Scotland, and the security of the vote counting process in Scottish elections.  You can catch up with the show via the embedded player below.

Gosh, I wonder if Stew has ever demonstrated quite so unwittingly and vividly that he is NOT a "journalist"?

Quite a number of years ago now, I got into a mildly bizarre email debate with someone who shall remain nameless, but who is widely regarded in Scotland as bona fide journalistic royalty.  Basically the discussion centred on whether or not Stuart Campbell of Wings Over Scotland can reasonably be classified as a "journalist", which is something he self-identifies as, and which his most ardent fans certainly regard him as (in fact they frequently gush that he's Scotland's greatest journalist).  Even though I was no longer on good terms with Stew by then, it may surprise you to learn that I was actually the one defending him - I suppose he and I are both members of the informal "New Media Union", so we still have that in common if nothing else.  The point I made was that even if you regard his political blogging as something that falls short of real journalism, he was in his past life published extremely extensively in the most traditional of formats (ie. print magazines) on the subject of video games.  So in my view you had to regard him as a journalist, even if you qualify that by saying he is a video games journalist only.  

But the person I was speaking to was adamant that "he is NOT a journalist".  She kept repeating those words, without really fleshing out what exactly it was in her view that disqualified him.  I suppose her unspoken message was that she if anyone knows what a journalist looks like, and I should just take her word for it that Stew doesn't fit the bill.

I think I would have to concede at this stage of the evening that she probably had a point.  After all, one key characteristic that distinguishes professional journalists from enthusiastic amateurs is that they do tend to at least do some basic checking on the subject at hand before shooting their mouths off about it.

Stew has boasted in the past that he does not watch my videos, including the ones he has commented on at some length and mysteriously managed to produce screenshots from, because he claims he cannot bear to listen to me "droning on".  It was previously unclear how literally that boast should be taken, but it's certainly not hard to believe it tonight, because with the tweet you see above he's walked rather deservedly into a trap of his own making.  As anyone who actually watched the video he's commenting on will know, practically the exclusive subject of my commentary on Ash Regan's failed bill on prostitution law was how demonstrably wrong and toxic it is for Stew's fellow travellers to base their angry rhetoric on the wild assumption that any male who opposes the Nordic Model must by definition be a client of sex workers who is motivated by the ugliest of self-interest.  Here is a quote of some of what I said in the video:

"There was one [comment retweeted by Stew] that said that this demonstrates that lots of MSPs must be paying to abuse women abroad or something like that, which is an absolutely despicable thing to say. And it's despicable probably because some people will take that literally and think that might be a fair point. Well, let's look at the facts.  First of all, the Scottish Parliament is relatively gender balanced. It's I think about 55% male, 45% female. And the figures show consistently probably around about 10% or 11% of men at some point in their lives have paid for sex, which is obviously a significant number, but it does mean the vast majority of men, almost 90%, have not. So, it's reasonable to assume that probably around about 6% maybe of MSPs have at some point in their lives paid for sex.  That's based on the figures also showing that only a very tiny percentage of women, maybe about 0.1% of women, have paid for sex at some point in their lives. So, you know, a parliament composed of 94% of people who don't have any sort of vested interest in this subject, there is no reason why a parliament like that wouldn't pass a bill if the case had been made. So there's no point lashing out and thinking there's some sort of dark motive when the case hasn't been made to the satisfaction of the 94% of people in that parliament who do not have that kind of vested interest."

Now, it may well be that Stew disagrees with the point I'm making there and genuinely believes that any man who opposes the Nordic Model is automatically a sexual predator and can be reasonably denounced as one.  He may also truly believe that any man who then pushes back against that notion is further giving the game away in the Mandy Rice-Davies sense of "well, he would say that, wouldn't he?"  If he does believe that, he's marking himself out as suffering from the same type of immaturity fused with mindless rage that once led a group of vigilantes to attack the home of a paediatrician, simply because of the first four letters of the job title.  And OK, if that's the way Stew wants to live his life, that's up to him and it's not our place to try to talk him down.  

But by failing to engage with my arguments and explain why he thought they were wrong, and by even failing to acknowledge that those arguments were made at all, and by instead posting a tweet that implied it hadn't yet occurred to anyone but him that men who express opposition to the Nordic Model may instantly be subject to these infantile suspicions, he might as well have just had "I haven't watched the video I am criticising or even read the transcript" (and thus by extension "I am not actually a journalist") tattooed on his forehead.

He has previous form on this, of course, because a few months ago he claimed without bothering to check (I suspect simply because his mate McEleny whispered it in his ear) that I was on the Alba NEC when support for the Nordic Model became party policy, when in fact that happened before I was elected to the NEC.  Indeed I had made no secret whatsoever of my own position on the Nordic Model while that election was taking place.

I am extremely happy with the points I made in the video, and I would encourage anyone to watch it and make their own minds up.  I'll embed the video once again below - the relevant section starts at around 6:34.  It's a low bar, admittedly, but I certainly believe that what I said was somewhat more thoughtful, measured and considered than anything Stew or his fan club have managed in their shrieking comments about the subject over the last few hours.

Incidentally, I have reported the comment from "WSMMorag" as the unacceptable personal abuse that it undoubtedly is, and I have blocked her.  Reporting pretty much anything to Twitter is a complete waste of time in the Elon Musk era, but I tend to feel in situations like these that at least going through the motions of making the report is a matter of basic self-respect.

Why is YouGov under-representing Yes-voting Glaswegians in its independence polling?

Towards the end of this video, I also give my reaction to the Scottish Government's welcome announcement that they will not be supporting Ash Regan's private member's bill, which seeks to introduce the Nordic Model on prostitution law in Scotland.  This should make it very unlikely that the bill, which would have been extremely harmful, will pass. 

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Stew's "ten-year masterplan" nears its petty climax: how Somerset's most controversial blogger used the trans issue as a gateway drug to totally transform a small number of previously committed independence supporters into unionist far-right Reform voters

Incidentally, I recorded this video before I saw Campbell's latest "I luv Nige" fanboy blogpost, so the similarity of titles is just a coincidence - albeit an extremely telling coincidence in the circumstances.

Sizzling YouGov numbers put pro-independence parties on course for 53% of seats in the next Scottish Parliament

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Spectacular full-scale Scottish poll from YouGov shows the SNP and Greens on course for a substantial pro-independence majority at Holyrood

I will record a video about this poll at some point, but as I'm on a bus right now, I'll go retro and briefly give you the results in text form for the time being.

Should Scotland be an independent country?

Yes 47% (-)

No 53% (-)

Regular readers will instantly spot an obvious inconsistency here: the percentage changes in brackets (ie. showing no change at all) do not tally up with what we thought we knew about the most recent full-scale Scottish poll from YouGov, which showed Yes 49%, No 51%.  That's because for at least the third time in the last year, we've just discovered that YouGov conducted a secret poll a few weeks ago, didn't publish the results, and are now expecting us to just accept that the percentage changes in the poll they've actually bothered to publish are whatever they tell us they are.

Not to put too fine a point on it: what the hell are they playing at?  I'm not convinced that this behaviour is consistent with British Polling Council disclosure rules.  At the very least they must be straying into a grey area, and they're undoubtedly treating the nation of Scotland with utter contempt.  Everyone knows they wouldn't decide what to reveal and what not to reveal about GB-wide polls on a whim, as they seem to be regularly doing with their Scottish polls.

This revelation of course means that there was an additional independence poll in 2025 that we were previously unaware of.  I don't think this will alter the fact that there was a Yes majority in an average of all polls conducted in 2025, but I'll doublecheck to be sure and let you know in the video.

Scottish Parliament constituency ballot:

SNP 34%

Reform UK 20%

Labour 15%

Conservatives 10%

Liberal Democrats 10%

Greens 9%

Scottish Parliament regional list ballot:

SNP 29% 

Reform UK 20% 

Labour 15% 

Greens 12% 

Conservatives 11% 

Liberal Democrats 9% 

Alba 1% 

This is light-years short of the percentages the SNP would require to hit John Swinney's self-imposed target of a single-party overall SNP majority, but it's plenty enough for a pro-independence majority of seats comprised of the SNP and Greens in combination.  So the SNP leadership are in the enviable position of to some extent being able to simply decide whether they succeed or fail in this election.  If they stick to the Hail Mary single-party majority strategy, they will almost certainly fail and set the independence cause back several years.  But if they adjust their language to make clear that a pro-indy majority composed of more than one party would constitute a mandate, they will probably succeed.

It goes without saying that this is yet another polling catastrophe for Alba, who would need to multiply their current support by five, six, seven or eight times to win any seats.  Spoiler alert: they're not going to do that.

More details about this poll will follow later in the video.

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"Unaffordable and exploitative": the Alba Party hammers its long-suffering members with a devastating DOUBLING of fees

Apart from the shocking membership fee news, which Alba members already know about (as long as they've been checking their emails closely enough), this video also contains the latest gossip from my occasional Alba source about Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh and the ranking of Alba list candidates.

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The Blocking of Burnham: Doomsday for Labour, Christmas for the SNP

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SNP secure stirring VICTORY in the Glenrothes West & Kinglassie by-election

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Yet ANOTHER poll shows a pro-independence majority as natty Norstat (formerly known as Panelbase) join the 2026 party

Before anyone says anything, yes, I know I screwed up and randomly started referring to Norstat as "Panelbase" midway through the video.  I haven't got time to re-record it at the moment, so just suspend disbelief and call it nostalgia.  I've tried to rescue myself with the clarification in the title.

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Will the Greenland - Trump crisis boost support for Scottish independence?

I made this video before the news broke about Donald Trump's comments on Diego Garcia, which has resulted in this bizarre commentary from Henry Zeffman on the BBC News website (it's possibly a transcribed version of what he said on-air):

"It is not clear that any world leader has quite found a reliable way to handle President Trump. But Starmer’s attempts to do so earned him plaudits across the political spectrum. Foreign affairs had been seen as one of the real positives of his time in Downing Street. That verdict may have to be revised.  What a mess."

Laura Kuenssberg said something almost identical the other day, which creates the impression that it is practically the editorial line of the BBC that Starmer's handling of foreign affairs, and of Trump in particular, have "earned plaudits across the political spectrum".  As the SNP are part of the political spectrum, could the BBC clarify precisely who in the SNP has praised Starmer on foreign affairs, and when?  Who in the Green party did it?  Who in the Corbyn/Sultana party did it?  Etc, etc.

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Serious question: how can a foreign leader "veto" any decision made by the UK about UK sovereign territory? I thought Brexit was supposed to end "vassalage"? Why do you think it hasn't and why do you appear to be so happy about that? https://t.co/mqw7Wc4co5

— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) January 20, 2026

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It's happened: now even SURVATION are showing a pro-independence majority (albeit only just)

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SNP and Greens remain firmly on course for Holyrood pro-indy majority in super-sweet Survation survey

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Sensational numbers for both the SNP and Plaid Cymru in two new YouGov polls

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The party of Tas-beens: Alba's notorious unelected dictator finally departs - but only "temporarily"

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Has Trump ushered in an American FASCISM? His administration now has SEVEN of the eight essential features of a fascist government

I know we were all keen for RevStew to finally put a sock in it about the trans issue, but given that he's replaced that obsession with 24/7 apologism for a woman's murder, perhaps he should be encouraged to start banging on about the trans issue again.

— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) January 10, 2026

SNP have FOUR TIMES as much support as Labour in YouGov's astounding first subsample of 2026

In the video below, I also give my thoughts on Stuart Campbell's frankly disturbing reaction to the fatal shooting in Minneapolis, which has shocked even his habitual supporters and defenders to the core.

If you have only a 0.2 second window to make a decision about whether to murder someone, a good rule of thumb is not to murder them. pic.twitter.com/sfBIaqRjdY

— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) January 8, 2026

He has turned into a far right figure. I always thought he was just a gadfly but he has placed himself firmly on the far right.

Some people have been absolutely fried by the current media landscape and the algorithm on Twitter, which has been turned into a hate generator.

— Jim (@james198428) January 8, 2026

Alba's death-throes UPDATE: party insider makes explosive allegation that Kenny MacAskill (aka "Cruella's Hostage") kept the NEC in the dark about a five-figure debt - there are now once again severe doubts over whether Alba will even be able to STAND CANDIDATES in May

Scot Goes Pop: The Final Fundraiser is underway (you can read more about why I anticipate it being the final one HERE) and it's already a bit over halfway towards its target figure of £1700.  A million thanks to everyone who has donated so far.  Card donations can be made at the GoFundMe page HERE, or if you prefer to cut out the middle-man, direct PayPal donations can be made to my PayPal email address, which is:   jkellysta@yahoo.co.uk

Through their craven silence on Venezuela, the leaders of European countries may be about to discover for themselves the true meaning of "FAFO" in respect of Greenland

Scot Goes Pop: The Final Fundraiser is underway (you can read more about why I anticipate it being the final one HERE) and it's already a bit over halfway towards its target figure of £1700.  A million thanks to everyone who has donated so far.  Card donations can be made at the GoFundMe page HERE, or if you prefer to cut out the middle-man, direct PayPal donations can be made to my PayPal email address, which is:   jkellysta@yahoo.co.uk

An update about the Great Scot Goes Pop Video-Blogging Experiment, and the progress of the Final Fundraiser

A few minutes ago, my phone spontaneously managed to escape from my pocket onto the road outside my house for the second time in the space of six months, smashing the screen yet again.  I thought I had learned the lesson from last time by putting a protective film on the screen, but clearly that didn't make as much difference as I'd hoped.  Unlike last time, the phone is still working for now, but the end for it is probably nigh and I'll have to fork out yet again for a replacement.

This is perhaps nature's way of reminding me that I've been meaning for a little while to post an update about my Great Switching To Video-Blogging experiment and also about the progress of the fundraiser I've been running to try to bridge the gap during the prolonged period it's taking to find out whether YouTube is a viable alternative funding model.  The intention is to try to give a little boost to the fundraiser, which got off to a fantastic start, but has since stalled a few hundred pounds short of its target figure.

Basically the situation is that I reached the two thresholds for monetisation on YouTube several weeks ago (1000 subscribers and 4000 watch-hours), but I still haven't reached the minimum earnings threshold for a first actual payment.  As I understand the payment schedule, the earliest it's now possible for me to receive any money at all is in the second half of February, so in the meantime I will unfortunately need to keep promoting this stopgap fundraiser to stay afloat.  The target figure is £1700 (I know it currently says £1100 on the GoFundMe page, but that's because they're using a new-fangled 'dynamically-changing target' system which supposedly produces better results).

So is the YouTube idea going to work as a funding model in the long run, or will I have to switch to my Plan B of Substack?  The jury is still out.  At the moment the videos are only netting a few pounds per day, and if that's the way it stays it obviously won't be sustainable.  However, the average number of views per video has markedly increased over the last few months as my number of subscribers has crept up, so the hope is that increase will just keep continuing at a steady pace.  If it doesn't, and if I eventually reach a sort of plateau, then I'll have to reconsider the plan, but for the moment I remain semi-hopeful.  Realistically I'd need to multiply my number of daily video views by about four, which is a tall order, and if it does prove to be feasible it's going to take a lot of work and a lot of time to get there.  If all else fails, there are supposedly sponsorship opportunities on YouTube, although that may be a bit of a circular argument because to be attractive to a potential sponsor I'd probably need a much greater number of average views anyway.

One thing I will say in favour of this experiment, though, is that it's proving to be a really simple and effective way of promoting to the general public favourable results in opinion polls, both for independence itself and for pro-independence parties.  As you know, YouTube promote new videos in their sidebar, and I've been using the actual full results of opinion polls as the thumbnail for each video, so even if people don't click on the links, they're still becoming passively aware of the latest poll results, and of the fact that Yes are in the lead in many polls.  I think that's quite a useful public service, even if I do say so myself!

If you'd like to help keep the lights on while I try to make this madcap project work, there are three options for supporting the fundraiser:

Card payments can be made via the main GoFundMe crowdfunder page HERE.

Direct PayPal payments (which can have the advantage of eliminating all fees, depending on which option you select from the menu) can be made to my PayPal email address, which is:   jkellysta@yahoo.co.uk

Bank transfers are the third option.  I've been advised not to publicly post my bank details, but if you'd like to donate that way, drop me a line and I'll send you the details privately.  My contact email address is different from my PayPal address, and can be found on my Twitter profile, or on the sidebar of this blog (desktop version of the site only).

Professor John Curtice projects the SNP *are* on course for Holyrood list seat SUCCESS

The video below also briefly touches on an astoundingly ill-informed tweet from "RevStew" about Quebec politics, which rather calls into question the oft-heard claims that he's some sort of highly sophisticated "investigative journalist" - in fact, a mere ten-second Google search would have been enough to flag up his error, but it seems he didn't even bother doing that.

 

Scot Goes Pop: The Final Fundraiser is underway (you can read more about why I anticipate it being the final one HERE) and it's already pretty close to halfway to its target figure of £1700.  A million thanks to everyone who has donated so far.  Card donations can be made at the GoFundMe page HERE, or if you prefer to cut out the middle-man, direct PayPal donations can be made to my PayPal email address, which is:   jkellysta@yahoo.co.uk

New Year, NEW STEW? Controversial blogger dramatically ADMITS an average of all independence polls in 2025 showed a Yes majority - but other falsehoods and contradictions from him still abound

Scot Goes Pop: The Final Fundraiser is underway (you can read more about why I anticipate it being the final one HERE) and it's already pretty close to halfway to its target figure of £1700.  A million thanks to everyone who has donated so far.  Card donations can be made at the GoFundMe page HERE, or if you prefer to cut out the middle-man, direct PayPal donations can be made to my PayPal email address, which is:   jkellysta@yahoo.co.uk