Saturday, June 8, 2024

The SNP's Stephen Flynn was the overwhelming winner of last night's seven-way BBC debate, say viewers in Scotland

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More in Common carried out a snap poll on last night's BBC debate.  On the question of who won, Stephen Flynn was only fourth among view...
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Friday, June 7, 2024

Photos from Alba's campaign launch

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I went to the Alba campaign launch this morning.  I was a bit surprised that it was being held in Sloans, where I'd only been twice befo...
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Thursday, June 6, 2024

Ip Ip Ip Ipsos: new telephone poll has the SNP on 5% of the Britain-wide vote and well ahead in the Scottish subsample

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The title of this blogpost is a rather niche nod to the "Ip Ip Ip Ipswich" headline that heralded the Liberal landslide in the 190...
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Scottish Tories in total disarray as they sack David Duguid so that Douglas Ross can continue to have four jobs, but Duguid refuses to go along with the cover story

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A political party is not in a good place when one of their MPs ends up in intensive care and the first thought of the leader and the people ...
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Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Nigel's Canadian Dream

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A penny suddenly dropped for me earlier today.  I've always been baffled as to why Farage's mob threw away the hard-won advantage of...
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Tuesday, June 4, 2024

According to the snap YouGov poll, Keir Starmer has just lost a head-to-head debate with one of the most hapless and distrusted Prime Ministers in history. Perhaps Rebecca Long-Bailey would have been a better idea after all?

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When ITV and the BBC rig their debates to totally exclude the largest party in Scotland (and other parties with significant support like the...
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Another big psychological boost for the SNP as Survation MRP projection puts them on 26 seats - just 3 short of an outright majority

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After the setback (with caveats) of the Redfield & Wilton poll a couple of hours ago, here's some much better news for the SNP and t...
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Redfield & Wilton poll: support for independence increases to 49%, and John Swinney has a big lead over Anas Sarwar as the public's preferred First Minister

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This is one of the key polling moments I've been waiting for since John Swinney became SNP leader.  The monthly Redfield & Wilton po...
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The YouGov MRP poll is a lot better than it looks for the SNP - there are enough "tossup" seats to leave even an outright majority firmly in play

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I've finally had a chance to read through the detailed results of the YouGov MRP poll, which flatly contradicted the MRP poll from More ...
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A good night for John Swinney - but STV yet again do their weird "let's start the debate by telling voters how they're going to vote" thing

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Apologies for not finishing my post last night, but I got back quite late from the Alba adoption meeting in Airdrie.  Before I fell asleep, ...
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