Saturday, May 15, 2021

Here's the good news: if you vote Alba or Green in the local elections, you will NOT be "voting against the SNP"

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At the bottom of the previous post, I added my reply to Peter Grant MP's peculiar tweet about the local elections next year.  However, I...
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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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SNP comfortably win Airdrie & Shotts by-election

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This came a lot earlier than I was expecting, and I can't find any coverage at all on TV, but according to North Lanarkshire Council thi...
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Thursday, May 13, 2021

Presiding Officer election confirms SNP will *not* be a minority government

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Today's election of Green MSP Alison Johnstone as the sixth Presiding Officer of the Scottish Parliament puts the final touches to the n...
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Wednesday, May 12, 2021

How do voters read the SNP's motivations?

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So just to return briefly to the subject of this morning's post - whether or not the SNP are primarily motivated by independence or by a...
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The future's blue. The future's Alba.

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Apologies to anyone 'triggered' by that title, but hey, there's room for more than one point of view in this world. I had an epi...
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Tuesday, May 11, 2021

The media doesn't want to talk about this - but unionism has got a Douglas Ross problem

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I was having a look at the YouGov website to see if I could find the datasets from the Times poll about Devo Max, which naturally Kenny ...
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Monday, May 10, 2021

We all know there was a pro-independence majority in the popular vote on that all-important #PeachVote - but how big was it?

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As has been widely mentioned (albeit perhaps not on the mainstream media!), the SNP, Greens and Alba took a combined vote share of 50.1% on ...
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Sunday, May 9, 2021

Serious questions for the Electoral Commission tonight as inexplicable ruling appears to have robbed the Greens (and thus the pro-independence camp) of two seats they should have won

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Pro-independence parties have won 72 of the 129 seats in the new Scottish Parliament, which is a very handsome majority.  However, it was ag...
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Saturday, May 8, 2021

FINAL RESULTS: The SNP gain one seat overall, will *not* be a minority govt as long as there's an opposition Presiding Officer - and pro-independence parties win majority of the popular vote on the list

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I haven't calculated the national popular vote on the list yet, but John Curtice stated that the SNP, Greens and Alba have 51% between t...
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