Monday, December 11, 2017

A gentle word in the ear of Tommy Sheppard: let's get real

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My jaw has just dropped to the floor upon reading an article in The National in which SNP MP Tommy Sheppard argues that if Kezia Dugdale de...
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Sunday, December 10, 2017

Ruth Davidson set for "future of demeaning irrelevance" as yet another Scottish poll puts the SNP on course for Westminster gains from the Tories

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Stuart Campbell of Wings has tweeted the following Survation polling figures, which appear to be from a new full-scale Scottish poll.  I c...
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Friday, December 8, 2017

It's IMPOSSIBLE for a devolved parliament to have a Brexit veto (except when it's in the Tories' own interests, in which case it's obviously totally possible)

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In my last blogpost, I posed the question: given the entrenched positions of the DUP, the Irish government and anti-European Tory MPs, how w...
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Tuesday, December 5, 2017

A paradox: did Tory losses at the general election make a hard Brexit more likely?

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There was a great deal of speculation back in June about whether the election resulting in a hung parliament - albeit, crucially, one in whi...
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Monday, December 4, 2017

Schrodinger's No Regulatory Divergence

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I've just been catching up with the fudge on Northern Ireland that looks set to save the Brexit negotiations - but at what price?  My fi...
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Ruth Davidson faces "utter humiliation" at next election as Scottish Tories slump to third place in landmark Survation poll

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Scottish voting intentions for next Westminster general election (Survation): SNP 37% (-2) Labour 28% (+2) Conservatives 25% (-1) ...
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Sunday, December 3, 2017

Ruth Davidson SHUDDERS as support for independence increases to 47% in long-awaited Survation poll

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We're getting a bit closer to solving the mystery of the elusive full-scale Scottish poll from Survation - it turns out it was commissi...
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An indyref is much more likely to take place in 2019 or 2020 than next year

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First things first: a Survation-Watch update.  Stuart Dickson has spotted an article in the Sunday Post about a Scottish poll conducted by ...
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Saturday, December 2, 2017

Never make predictions, especially about the future

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Just a quick note to let you know I have a new article in the December issue of iScot , pondering whether it's even worth the bother of ...
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Thursday, November 30, 2017

"So you don't think minor roadworks are a news story? Are you nuts, or just a member of the SNP?"

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Earlier this evening, STV News asked an engineering expert about the repairs on the Queensferry Crossing, and his firm verdict was that they...
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