Friday, April 12, 2019

It's another bonzer by-election breakthrough: Sunshine on Leith Walk for surging SNP, but darkness falls on Labour and the Tories

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It's happened again - the SNP have notched up an impressive local by-election win in a formerly Labour-dominated area of the central bel...
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Thursday, April 11, 2019

Now is the time to decisively move up a gear in preparations for an independence referendum

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I was heartened to see Chris McEleny and Angus MacNeil pressing the case so forcefully today for an independence referendum this autumn.  In...
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Tuesday, April 9, 2019

The case for a consultative independence referendum

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I've been having an exchange on Twitter with Iain Macwhirter over the last 24 hours about the possibility of holding a consultative refe...
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Sunday, April 7, 2019

Is Theresa May unwittingly making independence even more likely by implicating Labour in a hard Brexit?

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Brexit seems to be taking us into a game of three-dimensional chess.  We have Jacob Rees-Mogg talking about how the UK could take advantage ...
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"Boost for May" as Tory vote drops like a stone

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Mike Smithson, known and loved by thousands of East Dunbartonshire residents as a keen letter-writing impartial Liberal Democrat election ex...
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Saturday, April 6, 2019

Is there any more ridiculous sight than a Tory commentator using a dud poll to weave a world of illusion in which the "precious Union" is safe?

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So just a quick postscript to the previous post about the ludicrous misreporting of the independence figures from the Progress Scotland poll...
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Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Clueless Sun newspaper left red-faced after being caught wrongly telling readers that support for independence has "dropped"

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A couple of nights ago, someone left a comment on this blog asking me to write about the numbers from the new Progress Scotland poll on supp...
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Tuesday, April 2, 2019

The reason why nobody can agree on what Theresa May just said is that she said everything and nothing simultaneously

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I now understand why Tory MPs come out of meetings with Theresa May and can't agree on what she said, because her statement tonight was ...
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Tonight's votes reveal that the SNP are not uncompromising Remain ultras - they just have red lines, which they've rightly stuck to

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So a few quick thoughts on tonight's parliamentary votes.  I was surprised that all four motions were voted down, because with Labour wh...
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Monday, April 1, 2019

In a post-ideological world, what brings politicians together in a common endeavour? Apparently, it's the name "Alexander".

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You might remember that after the launch of the Independent Group a few weeks ago, Chris "in the works" Deerin penned a notorious ...
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