Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label politics. Show all posts
Friday, April 8, 2022

Question about the local election voting system: "Should I rank all (or most) of the candidates?" Answer: YES, especially if you want to stop the Tories

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In the wake of my April Fool (which alarmingly about 10-20% of people took seriously, even though I thought I had made it self-evidently abs...
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Friday, April 1, 2022

STV for dummies

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So no, this is not a reference to Scottish Television dumbing down even further, it's about the other STV, the Single Transferable Vote ...
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Friday, August 6, 2021

Just a reminder that we have hard evidence that the Scottish public want to be represented by Team Scotland at the Olympics, not Team GB

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As we move towards the end of Tokyo 2020 and the accompanying #ButchApronFest, it's worth reminding ourselves of the result of a Scot Go...
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Thursday, May 20, 2021

Are you a newspaper columnist and want to say Scottish democracy should be dismantled without anyone noticing? Try smuggling it into an article about the Eurovision Song Contest...

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Via Professor John Robertson's blog, I caught up with professional troll Mark Smith's latest column in the Herald. If you doubt my ...
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Friday, May 14, 2021

The reason for suspecting a Scottish poll conducted right now might show a pro-independence majority

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The latest Britain-wide YouGov poll makes grim reading for Labour, and spectacularly gives the lie to the notion that a lurch to the right w...
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Friday, April 30, 2021

Le Royaume-Uni, nul points: Big majority of public demand a SCOTTISH ENTRY in the Eurovision Song Contest, in bombshell for the BBC from Scot Goes Pop / Panelbase poll

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So you've got to allow me the occasional indulgence, OK? Out of a large number of questions in the Scot Goes Pop / Panelbase poll, I as...
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Wednesday, April 7, 2021

VIDEO: Scot Goes Popcast interview with Alex Salmond

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You've already heard it , and now you can watch it in glorious technicolor. Here is the video version of Episode 6 of the Scot Goes Pop...
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Thursday, April 1, 2021

The Bairns of Boris Bridge

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People have complained that I've been spending too much time promoting the Alba Party and not enough time attacking unionists, so I'...
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Monday, March 22, 2021

Scot Goes Pop Fundraiser 2021

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Click here to go straight to the fundraising page. Someone asked me on Twitter the other day why I had stopped promoting the Scot Goes Pop f...
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Saturday, March 6, 2021

For the attention of voters: please note that the result of the election is none of your business

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So I guess the news is out. First, I thank SNP Lothian members who gave an Afro-Carib-Scot socialist their votes. I'm deeply honoured to...
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Monday, February 22, 2021

Scot Goes Popcast Episode 2: Dr Tim Rideout on an independent Scottish currency

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In a few days' time, the Scottish Currency Group will host a virtual conference called 'Moving Beyond the Sustainable Growth Commiss...
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Friday, February 12, 2021

There's no particular reason to think opinion polls are overestimating the Yes vote

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First of all, I have an analysis piece in The National today about the new Savanta ComRes poll which puts the Yes vote on 53%.  You can read...
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Monday, February 8, 2021

If the SNP leadership aren't going to reverse the catastrophic mistake of the Great Purge, they urgently need to show signs of having listened to members by offering some red meat on Plan B

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Every so often, Stormfront Lite makes a plucky attempt to Anglosplain Scottish politics to us, although just this once - and rather irritat...
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Saturday, February 6, 2021

Scot Goes Popcast with special guest Dr Yvonne Ridley

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There was an overwhelmingly positive reaction on Twitter a few weeks ago when I asked if I should consider starting a 'Scot Goes Popcast...
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Tuesday, February 2, 2021

The way forward

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Should we be bracing ourselves for the sequence of twenty-in-a-row Yes majority polls to be broken? Even just from a purely statistical poi...
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Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Scot Goes Pop / Survation poll: Sensation as Scottish voters give their backing to the McEleny/MacNeil plan to use *this year's* Holyrood election to secure an outright independence mandate

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Every time I've crowdfunded a poll, by far the most requested question has been on the subject of a 'Plan B' to secure an indepe...
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Scot Goes Pop / Survation poll: SNP on course to win 55 of the 59 Scottish seats at Westminster, with the Tories slipping into a deep hole that could finish Douglas Ross' leadership

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As I mentioned in the preview video earlier, I was planning to put out both the Holyrood and Westminster voting intention numbers from our ...
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Wednesday, January 6, 2021

I'm warning you, if you say "Jehovah" once more, or "England" to a former leader of the Liberal Democrats...

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Presumably the Lib Dems think France should also be required to leave the European Union in order to save the English from the consequences ...
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Wednesday, December 30, 2020

CROWDFUNDER: A new opinion poll to test support for independence now that the Tories' Hard Brexit has become a cold reality

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Click here to go straight to the fundraising page.  Hi, I'm James Kelly, and I write the pro-independence blog Scot Goes Pop, which has ...
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Friday, December 18, 2020

An average of all twenty-three polls conducted this year puts support for independence at more than 53%

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By overwhelming popular demand (well, a couple of people asked) here is an update of this blog's Poll of Polls.  Just a reminder that ra...
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