Saturday, July 2, 2022

Astounding #Referendum2023 poll shows a pro-independence majority for the first time in any Panelbase poll since April 2021

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Should Scotland be an independent country?  (Panelbase / Sunday Times) Yes 51% (+2) No 49% (-2) For my money unionist politicians are going ...
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If 2024 becomes a plebiscite election, there are only two viable options: either a Yes alliance should put up a single slate of candidates, or the Alba Party should mostly sit out the election and lend its support to SNP candidates

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I'd have thought the title of this blogpost should be a statement of the obvious, but I've seen one or two prominent people suggesti...
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Yes, James Mitchell, of course there's such a thing as a de facto referendum

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James Mitchell writes very fine prose, but he's an example of why academics don't make the best political strategists. If the SNP li...
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Friday, July 1, 2022

Dramatic Savanta ComRes poll suggests pro-independence parties could be just 1% away from winning an outright mandate for independence at a 2024 plebiscite election

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After the shocking events of the #Matchettgate fake poll scandal in the early part of last year, it's entirely rational for us to treat ...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2022

A reminder of the mountain of polling evidence that the Scottish public strongly support the "Plan B" options for seeking a mandate for independence if the UK Government continue to refuse a Section 30

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As I mentioned yesterday, I've used several of the full-scale Scottish opinion polls that I've commissioned for Scot Goes Pop over t...
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Tuesday, June 28, 2022

The practical implications of using the 2024 general election as a de facto independence referendum

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There's one caveat that needs to be placed on my two previous posts from earlier today, which relates to the fact that the referendum le...
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Scotland may not have declared independence yet - but it's just declared independence from the tyranny of "once in a generation"

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For many years now, I've been arguing that there's considerable beauty in finding out once and for all whether the Scottish Parliame...
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At long last, we're there - a CREDIBLE guarantee that there will either be a referendum next year, or a plebiscitary election the year after

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As most readers will know, I'm a member of the Alba Party's NEC, but I'm not going to be churlish about this - Nicola Sturgeon...
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Monday, June 27, 2022

#Referendum2023: It's like Christmas Eve for the Yes movement as we are now just ONE SLEEP AWAY from hearing the PRECISE METHOD by which the guarantee of an October 2023 independence referendum will be delivered

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On the eve of her historic announcement about how exactly she will deliver her promise of an independence referendum in sixteen months' ...
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Monday, June 20, 2022

Alex Massie's bizarre repudiation of the principles of parliamentary democracy

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Courtesy of an anonymous commenter on the previous thread, I've now seen Alex Massie's column in full, and it's even worse than ...
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