Saturday, February 25, 2023

Kate Forbes holds a clear lead in yet another poll - this time from Panelbase

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Voters' favoured choice as next SNP leader (Panelbase / Sunday Times, 21st-24th February 2023) Kate Forbes 23% Humza Yousaf 15% Ash Rega...
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If the SNP emerges from this leadership election as a party in which Adam Tomkins and his views would fit comfortably, something will have gone catastrophically wrong somewhere

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You might remember that after the Supreme Court verdict last autumn, the Tories' Adam Tomkins seemed to panic because he realised that h...
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Friday, February 24, 2023

UPDATE: Boost for Kate Forbes as it emerges today's poll showing her in the lead was conducted almost entirely post-witch-hunt

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So for those of you who saw my post earlier today about the poll of SNP voters showing another clear lead for Kate Forbes, you'll know t...
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New poll reveals Kate Forbes is the big favourite of SNP voters to succeed Nicola Sturgeon

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A new poll related to the SNP leadership election is out. Crucially it has fieldwork dates from after the witch-hunt against Kate Forbes got...
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023

Yet more disastrous poll numbers for Humza Yousaf, this time from YouGov. Somehow, some way, the SNP have got to avoid chucking themselves headlong into the Humza Hole.

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A new full-scale Scottish poll from YouGov appeared last night, and it cleared up some outstanding questions from the previous one (more on ...
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Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Some free advice to Kate Forbes and her campaign team (before it's too late)

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I said last night that I thought Kate Forbes' personal popularity meant that she'd probably be able to come through the current cont...
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The self-styled SNP "realists" need to get real about this - you have picked the wrong champion in Humza Yousaf. Even if staying in government is all you care about, he is the candidate who will lose you that.

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It's being claimed on social media that senior people in Kate Forbes' own campaign team have said that she "f***ed it" wit...
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Monday, February 20, 2023

Angus Robertson's decision leaves us with a fascinating contest - because the current SNP elite are now fighting an against-the-odds battle to retain power

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I'm a little surprised by Angus Robertson's decision not to stand for the leadership, but I'm not totally astounded, and that...
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Sunday, February 19, 2023

Ash Regan electrifies the SNP leadership contest with an unashamedly crystal-clear plan for winning independence, of the sort that the Yes movement has been crying out for since 2016

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50%+1 of combined votes from pro-independence parties in any WM or HR election is a clear instruction from the electorate that we commence w...
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Saturday, February 18, 2023

Survation poll shows that SNP vote has increased slightly since Nicola Sturgeon resigned - and that Kate Forbes is frontrunner to be the next First Minister, if she wants the job

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Survation have tonight followed in the footsteps of Savanta by publishing a Scottish voting intention poll with fieldwork conducted after Ni...
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