Saturday, June 17, 2023

Landmark Panelbase poll shows SNP on course for defeat at the general election. This has to be the reality-check that causes denial within the SNP to end. They chose the wrong leader in March and that mistake has to be faced up to.

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As expected, opinion polls since the unpopular Humza Yousaf became First Minister in highly controversial circumstances three months ago hav...
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The growing gap between independence support and SNP support means that a de facto referendum has undoubtedly become the smart strategic call for the SNP at this stage - even when viewed only through the prism of self-interest and careerism

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Both The Times and The National are reporting that Humza Yousaf appears to be reverting to Nicola Sturgeon's policy of a de facto indepe...
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Friday, June 16, 2023

Familiar pattern in new Savanta poll: independence support up, SNP support down, and Kate Forbes replaces Nicola Sturgeon as Scotland's most popular politician

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This is another sobering poll for Humza Yousaf.  His ill-judged Interflora moment ("you send the abject subservience, we'll send th...
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Bellshill by-election result: Sirens are now screaming at full blast about the consequences of keeping Humza as leader after big drop in the SNP's vote

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Just for once, we have a Scottish local by-election result that won't lead the hapless "impartial Liberal Democrat election expert...
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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Poll shows most voters who express a view want pro-indy parties to put forward a united slate of election candidates to win independence for Scotland

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The results of another question have been revealed from the new Find Out Now poll commissioned by the Alba Party.  This time I haven't b...
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Monday, June 12, 2023

Yet another BOMBSHELL Find Out Now poll confirms that independence is the consistent, settled will of the Scottish people - contradicting the claim made by Humza Yousaf only yesterday, and piling colossal pressure on him to reverse course and restore the Sturgeon policy of a de facto referendum

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Well, well, well.  Just 24 hours since Humza Yousaf sold the jersey to some extent by telling the BBC (under no pressure at all from the int...
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Should the SNP suspend Nicola Sturgeon? It can't be one rule for the party's dominant faction and another rule for all other members.

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For obvious legal reasons, there's a limit to what any of us can say about Nicola Sturgeon's arrest yesterday, although we can certa...
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Sunday, June 11, 2023

Hepburn interview confirms yet again that the Yousaf leadership have ditched all plans to win independence. The SNP special conference may be allowed to *discuss* the Sturgeon plan of a de facto referendum, but delegates will not be permitted to vote in favour of it.

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Jamie Hepburn is my local MSP and I've met him twice - he came to my front door on referendum day in 2014, and then the following year I...
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Wednesday, June 7, 2023

Sensational Redfield & Wilton poll reveals that most voters in Scotland want an independence referendum WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR - piling massive pressure on Humza Yousaf to listen to SNP members and bring back the Sturgeon plan of a de facto referendum

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The very familiar pattern has continued today of good polling news for independence being coupled with, at best, mixed polling news for Humz...
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Tuesday, June 6, 2023

For some inexplicable reason, the SNP seem to actually *want* a by-election in Rutherglen & Hamilton West - so have they any chance at all of winning it?

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Over the past few months, there's been a part of me thinking "stay off the subject of a possible Rutherglen by-election, so as not ...
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