Wednesday, August 16, 2023

Sensation as support for independence soars in new poll from traditionally No-friendly firm YouGov

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Should Scotland be an independent country? (YouGov, 3rd-8th August 2023) Yes 48% (+3) No 52% (-3) It took me a while to doublecheck, but I c...
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Saturday, August 12, 2023

Alex Massie in DESPAIR as Redfield & Wilton poll shows the people of Scotland urgently want an independence referendum within just ONE YEAR

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As you'll have gathered, we're in "blogging is light" territory, but I'll just very very briefly give you my thoughts ...
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023

The cost of self-righteousness: the public's tepid response to the Ferrier recall petition suggests the SNP's support for it may have been decisive, and Yousaf may have just pointlessly thrown away a seat to a unionist party

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As expected, the recall petition against Margaret Ferrier has hit its target and triggered a by-election.  What I didn't expect, though,...
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Monday, July 31, 2023

A word of advice for Alba - there's a danger in being assumed, however wrongly, to be associated with the nutty Neil Oliver-style climate change denialism outlined by Stuart Campbell today

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As regular readers will know, I've been a member of the Alba Party since its formation in spring 2021.  I was a member of the Alba NEC b...
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Sunday, July 30, 2023

History suggests next year's general election may not be the triumphal procession for Starmer that so many are expecting

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Someone claimed on Twitter a couple of days ago that there have only been four previous occasions when the main opposition party in the UK h...
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Friday, July 28, 2023

Why it would be a good thing if Chris Hanlon challenges Yousaf for the SNP leadership

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First of all, let me acknowledge that Chris Hanlon's own personal reasons for considering a leadership challenge may be very different f...
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Wednesday, July 26, 2023

'Yes to Independence' on the ballot paper

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I did my periodical search yesterday to see if there were any new Scottish opinion polls out, and there weren't any, but it drew my atte...
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Friday, July 21, 2023

YouGov poll finds the Scottish public want a referendum on independence within the next five years - and reject the idea that London's permission should be required before a vote is held

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Slightly to my astonishment, at about the seventh or eighth attempt I've finally managed to track down the data tables from the YouGov S...
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Abject humiliation for Keir Starmer in Uxbridge by-election casts doubt over whether Labour's national poll lead has any real substance to it at all

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I know Labour and commentators sympathetic to Starmer will attempt to dismiss the shock Uxbridge by-election win for the Tories as a freak o...
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Thursday, July 20, 2023

Huztae be a way back from this

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Note: This was intended to be my column for the latest issue of iScot, but it didn't make the cut due to constraints of space.  So here ...
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