Saturday, July 15, 2023

Do the SNP suddenly regard their Western Isles heartland as expendable? If so, why?

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This is something I've been saying about the SNP for years, including prior to the spring of 2021 when I was still a member of the party...
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Friday, July 14, 2023

Breaking: IPSO doubles down on its eccentric definition of 'press regulation' with its latest startling ruling that "yes, the Daily Express lied, but that's OK because The National hates Britain"

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On 22nd May of this year, the Scottish Daily Express website published one of its regular wildly misleading articles about Scottish independ...
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Thursday, July 13, 2023

List of things that are perhaps slightly odd about the alleged "Scottish poll from YouGov" that was published a few days ago

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I increasingly feel that there's something not quite as it seems about the YouGov poll that unionists got so excited about a few days ag...
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Wednesday, July 12, 2023

The independence movement needs its own all-out "Manhattan Project" to engage with Yes supporters who are switching to Labour and bring them - or enough of them - back into the fold in time for the general election next year

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Neil Gray was one of Humza Yousaf's keenest supporters during the leadership race, which presumably meant he strongly shared the view th...
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Monday, July 10, 2023

YouGov poll shows familiar pattern: support for independence holds up within the normal range, but Humza Yousaf's personal approval rating drops further to a deeply worrying *minus 27*

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There's a limit to what I can tell you about the new Scottish poll from YouGov, who are always pretty quick to get up the data tables fr...
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Sunday, July 9, 2023

The East Kilbride by-election result is a reminder that any Scottish Tory recovery would be more of a problem for Labour than for anyone else

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Judging from the way people were talking about the by-election result in East Kilbride West (not to be confused with West Kilbride East), I ...
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Friday, July 7, 2023

A few months ago, the press regulator IPSO also upheld a complaint against the Sun on Sunday for lying about the results of a Scottish independence poll

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You might remember that a few weeks ago, the "press regulator" IPSO (in reality a self-regulator set up by the press themselves in...
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Wednesday, July 5, 2023

Westminster REELS IN SHOCK as support for independence SURGES in new BOMBSHELL Redfield & Wilton poll - but Humza Yousaf's personal popularity slumps again, and the SNP are clinging on to a barely-there lead

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Should Scotland be an independent country?  (Redfield & Wilton Strategies, 1st-2nd July 2023) Yes 48% (+3) No 52% (-3) To some extent th...
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New Survation poll shows independence support continuing to hold up impressively, while the SNP under Yousaf cling on to a precariously slender lead at both Westminster and Holyrood

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So let's start with the customary good news - in common with all other recent polls, the new Survation poll shows support for independen...
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Saturday, July 1, 2023

The incompatibility between NATO membership and signing the treaty banning nuclear weapons is actually a golden opportunity for the SNP to get themselves off the NATO hook

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It's not often that one of the unionist usual suspects on Twitter makes me grudgingly say "good point", but that happened a we...
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