Wednesday, April 15, 2026

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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Tuesday, April 7, 2026

More on the MRP poll: the 67-seat projection for the SNP may even be an underestimate due to the Greens being included in too many seats

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Some more details of the Find Out Now MRP poll for The National have been published on the Electoral Calculus website.  Whoever wrote the ar...
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Monday, April 6, 2026

Find Out Now - ZAP WHAM POW - that a new MRP poll shows the SNP on course for an overall majority

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As you may have seen, a new Find Out Now MRP poll commissioned by The National is suggesting that the SNP are on course for an overall major...
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