Friday, September 15, 2023

Why are Alba not embarrassing Yousaf by claiming credit for his U-turn, rather than attacking him for doing exactly what they asked him to do?

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I've written about this before, but it's something that genuinely bewilders me about the Alba Party's current positioning.  When...
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Thursday, September 14, 2023

One swallow does not make a summer, but give the SNP leadership their due: YouGov have just served up a rare sighting of a relatively good poll for the party

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Scottish voting intentions for the next UK general election (YouGov, 8th-13th September 2023): SNP 38% (+2) Labour 27% (-5) Conservatives 16...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

Sorry, did you just sing about the King being sappy and laborious? I couldn't really hear over all that BOOING.

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Remember at this time last year, unionist commentators couldn't contain their rather inappropriate jubilation at the TV pictures of peop...
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It's the settled will: yet another new poll confirms Scotland wants to become an independent country

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Many thanks to Paul Kirkwood, who has just pointed out to me that a new Find Out Now poll on Scottish independence was released last night o...
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Saturday, September 9, 2023

Addressing the bizarre claims that the Redfield & Wilton poll was "good for Humza"

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There's a small section of the media, both mainstream and alternative, which wants to prop Humza Yousaf up at all costs - an entirely se...
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Wednesday, September 6, 2023

SNP on course for general election defeat, says new Redfield & Wilton poll - intensifying the pressure on Yousaf to either resign, or end rule-by-faction

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For only the second time in many years, a polling firm has reported that the SNP have lost their outright lead on Westminster voting intenti...
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Tuesday, September 5, 2023

No, "the polls" are not showing Labour's lead in Rutherglen has been "slashed" over the last week - not least because there haven't been any polls

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There's a deceitful post - there's no other word for it, really - on Professor John Robertson's blog tonight, and it's resul...
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Sunday, September 3, 2023

End of an era as the Wings Over Scotland website officially abandons its support for Scottish independence, putting on record what's been clear from social media posts for around a year - but rest assured that Scot Goes Pop and other leading sites from the 2014 period remain unequivocally pro-independence

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One thing that has bemused me over the last year is that every so often someone has approached me in full-blown "intervention" mod...
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Thursday, August 31, 2023

The Summer Of Independence will be taking place on the second day of autumn

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Exactly three months ago, in the early hours of 1st June, I warned independence supporters that they'd better pace themselves during the...
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Tuesday, August 29, 2023

Why has McDougall served up a NoN-sense poll? Probably because Labour fear Kate Forbes becoming SNP leader

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A few days ago, Blair McDougall (mastermind of the original and self-styled "Project Fear" in 2014, for younger readers who don...
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