Sunday, April 19, 2026

A heads-up: a new Scot Goes Pop-commissioned opinion poll will be published before election day

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So a small announcement - I have commissioned Scot Goes Pop's first opinion poll since the two that were done back-to-back during the SN...
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You now have less than 30 hours to ensure all the independence supporters in your life are registered to vote

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In a sense the title says it all, but it perhaps doesn't quite capture the scale of the problem, because data from 2023 suggests 20% of ...
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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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