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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Bombshell GB-wide Ashcroft poll is the first not to show Reform in an outright lead for the first time in almost a year - Greens are in joint lead for the first time ever - Labour are in FOURTH - and the SNP have overtaken Labour UK-wide in the seats projection

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So this is a genuine landmark for the reasons given in the title, and it's also worth making the point that the data tables (unless I...
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Saturday, April 4, 2026

"C'est trop bruyant!": The settled will klaxon is so piercing tonight that it can even be heard IN FRANCE, as Norstat show a pro-independence majority for a SEVENTH poll in a row

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Tonight brings word of the latest in the regular series of Norstat polls for the Sunday Times, and although the newspaper has buried the res...
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Friday, April 3, 2026

"But what if that other voice we all know so well responds by saying 'we say no, and we are the state'?"

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A former commenter on this blog from way back in the 2014 indyref period got in touch with a question a few days ago, and I've been so b...
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Thursday, April 2, 2026

My plans for Scot Goes Pop's coverage of the Holyrood election campaign

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This post will come as a relief to some of you, because I've decided to temporarily go back to conventional blogging for the remainder o...
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