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A pro-independence blog by James Kelly - one of Scotland's three most-read political blogs.

Thursday, April 16, 2026

List seat BONANZA forecast by MRP poll as JL Partners suggest the SNP are on course for an overall majority with the help of TEN LIST SEATS

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I feel like I should say something about the new JL Partners / Telegraph MRP poll for the Holyrood election, but I'm actually struggling...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2026

The question that Anas Sarwar now needs to answer

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The Scottish Labour party and its allies, including Paul Hutcheon of the Daily Record and Professor James Mitchell (who is increasingly drop...
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In an analogue age Anas Sarwar might have got away with that - but this is a digital age, and he didn't

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I forgot all about the Channel 4 leaders' debate, so I didn't watch it live, but obviously I soon heard of Offord's revelation a...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026

The Greens have now been crowned the undisputed Olympic champions of misleading bar charts on election leaflets - they're bizarrely claiming that SNP-held Edinburgh Central is a two-horse race between themselves and Labour, and their source for this improbable claim is (drumroll, please) *themselves*. So brazen it deserves a reward biscuit!

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A few weeks ago, the Green co-leader Ross Greer posted a Labour leaflet from Strathkelvin & Bearsden, mocking it for containing a partic...
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Sunday, April 12, 2026

REVEALED: The hard science that makes Both Votes SNP such an effective strategy - why the "Make Mine A Double" voting craze is mathematically sound as well as fashionable and trendy

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OK, the title of this blogpost is mainly there to wind up Stew, but there is actually a very serious point behind it, and it's one that ...
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Friday, April 10, 2026

Even YouGov now say the Union Jack could soon be LOWERED as sensational MRP poll shows SNP on course for an overall majority

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MRP Seats projection (YouGov / Sky News / The Times, 23rd March-8th April 2026): SNP 67 Reform UK 20 Labour 15 Greens 11 Liberal Democrats 9...
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Thursday, April 9, 2026

The "Make Mine A Double" voting craze that is sweeping the nation: why all the most fashionable trendsetters - and Stew - agree it has to be BOTH votes SNP in May

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  There's actually a serious point here, because Stew is far from the only right-wing commentator who has argued that a Green return to ...
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The crazy, topsy-turvy logic (and in some cases hypocrisy) of the "tactical voting on the list" advocates

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I'm beginning to think I'm going to have to mute certain accounts on Twitter to get through the rest of the Holyrood campaign with m...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Pro-independence parties on course to win an astonishing 62% of seats in the next Scottish Parliament, says sumptuous Ipsos poll

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Scottish Parliament constituency ballot (Ipsos, 26th-31st March 2026): SNP 39% (+3) Reform UK 15% (-1) Labour 15% (-5) Conservatives 11% (+2...
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Catastrophe for Starmer as Labour slump to joint all-time low in weekly YouGov poll, level with the Greens - the SNP have huge 18-point lead in Scottish subsample

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YouGov have suddenly and belatedly started including Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain and Jeremy Corbyn's Your Party as options in thei...
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