Saturday, July 6, 2024

Memo to Stewart McDonald: you've had your "pause" on independence for the best part of the last decade. It didn't work and we can now see what the consequences were. The excuses have run out: it's time to press the "play" button and move ahead to a de facto referendum in 2026

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Very, very long-term readers of this blog may recall that several years ago I used to be a columnist for a couple of UK-wide news websites, ...
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Some thoughts on how the voting system severely distorted the election outcome in Scotland

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If the UK really is going to ludicrously persist with first-past-the-post in an increasingly multi-party system and with increasingly perver...
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So what happens from here?

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One of the reasons why I suggested that independence supporters would be crazy to abstain or vote Labour on Thursday was that it would not j...
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Friday, July 5, 2024

The SNP's result in historical context

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I said last night that the SNP would have been hoping to outperform the exit poll just slightly, so that they would do better than in Octobe...
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The real result mirrors the exit poll but feels worse somehow - and there are good reasons for that, although the scale of Labour's victory is still being wildly overstated

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The exit poll showed the SNP on 10 seats, and the real result will be very similar to that - it'll be 9, or in theory it could still be ...
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Thursday, July 4, 2024

Exit Poll analysis

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I've produced a lightning quick analysis piece about the exit poll for The National.  Basically the gist is that it's disappointing ...
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EXIT POLL: SNP projected to win 10 seats

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Exit Poll results (number of seats for each party):  Labour 410 Conservatives 131 Liberal Democrats 61 Reform UK 13 SNP 10 Plaid Cymru 4 Gre...
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Keir Starmer supported the illegal starvation of the innocent civilian population of Gaza. He is not fit to run a parish council, let alone the UK government. Don't vote Labour this evening, vote for a pro-independence party that cares about human life.

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Keir Starmer said: “Israel 🇮🇱 does have that right" to cut water and power from Gaza 🇵🇸 If you remember one interview on Thursday t...
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Stuart Campbell has not only turned against independence, he's turned against the rights of women and girls. If anyone is crazy enough to follow his advice today, make sure you hold him accountable for the long-term consequences.

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To save you having to directly experience the final descent of Wings Over Scotland into either hell or Narnia (delete as appropriate), I...
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Wednesday, July 3, 2024

The Scot Goes Pop recommendation for Election 2024: please vote, and please vote for a pro-independence party (and yes, the SNP are a pro-independence party)

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Apologies if the title sounds a bit self-important, but with so much irresponsible advice flying around at a moment of maximum danger for ou...
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