SCOT goes POP!

A pro-independence blog by James Kelly - one of Scotland's three most-read political blogs.

Saturday, March 4, 2023

Suggested questions for the SNP leadership hustings

Over recent days, a few people have said to me: "I'm going to X hustings or Y hustings - which question would you suggest?" I...

Friday, March 3, 2023

Data tables from the poll of SNP members show that Kate Forbes has a big lead among older SNP members - and she would need just 76% of Ash Regan's second preferences to become the next First Minister

To their credit, Savanta have already released the data tables from the first poll of SNP members in the leadership contest, and I've be...

Dramatic boost for Kate Forbes as first poll of SNP members suggests she will become First Minister if she receives the lion's share of Ash Regan's second preferences

Thanks to Keaton for pointing out to me that the first 'proper' poll of the SNP leadership election has been published - ie. a poll ...

Thursday, March 2, 2023

Update on Scot Goes Pop's plans for the coming period (including a new opinion poll)

After a number of false starts over a period of more than a year, I'm at last able to say: thank you for your patience, and I've now...

Scot Goes Pop On The Spot: Relive ALL THE DRAMA of the first hustings for the SNP leadership election

SCOT GOES POP - ON THE SPOT. I have now - genuinely - arrived just OUTSIDE the venue for tonight's SNP leadership hustings, so I can liv...

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

Kate Forbes is now very close to resuming her place as betting favourite

The polls have consistently shown Humza Yousaf in third place, distantly behind both Kate Forbes and Ash Regan, on net approval ratings. Th...

Monday, February 27, 2023

We need to stop wrongly referring to Humza Yousaf as "the continuity candidate". By even flirting with the idea of making him First Minister, the SNP are sleepwalking into a revolutionary break from Sturgeon, Salmond and every other previous leader. For the first time, they would cease to be a party seriously attempting to win independence.

Regular readers can hardly have failed to spot that I've been unhappy with the Alba Party's direction of travel in recent months. I...

Sunday, February 26, 2023

The case for thinking this contest is winnable for Kate Forbes

I agree with a fair bit of Craig Murray's latest blogpost , but there's one part I'll pick up on, because it's not actually ...

Saturday, February 25, 2023

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

Voters' favoured choice as next SNP leader (Panelbase / Sunday Times, 21st-24th February 2023) Kate Forbes 23% Humza Yousaf 15% Ash Rega...

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

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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