Wednesday, July 24, 2024

Two plus two equals five, Winston, and that is the change Scotland needs

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One of the extraordinary things about the general election campaign in Scotland was that Labour got away with the "change" messagi...
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Sunday, July 21, 2024

Former independence supporter Stuart Campbell effectively admits trying to "kill" indy at the general election - and he wrongly thinks he's succeeded

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I just want to make one simple point.  Although it's an important point, there's nothing complicated about it and it can be explaine...
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Saturday, July 20, 2024

BREAKING: Alba remains a "member-led" party

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Scot Goes Pop readers who are members of the Alba Party will have received the weekly party email yesterday, which this time was written by ...
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Friday, July 19, 2024

The blackout on reporting of David Davis' revelation tells us a lot about how media bias works in the UK - but we still need to start separating out the Sturgeon v Salmond battles from the internal politics of the independence movement

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I note that David Davis has used parliamentary privilege to allege that Liz Lloyd, the former Chief of Staff for Nicola Sturgeon, was the pe...
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024

The Scottish Government should boycott any "Council of the Nations and Regions"

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The Nation.Cymru news website has been making the news recently rather than just reporting on it.  It played a key role in the downfall of t...
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Tuesday, July 16, 2024

First post-election poll suggests the Labour honeymoon may be limited in scale

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The first GB-wide poll since the general election is out, but it's quite hard to interpret.  There's no sign of the data tables (if ...
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Monday, July 15, 2024

After a third consecutive election failure, where now for the Alba Party?

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It's worth reiterating that Alba did not directly cost the SNP any seats at all at the general election.  There was a huge element of lu...
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Saturday, July 13, 2024

If Stewart McDonald thinks people will vote for the SNP if they promise to remove Trident within five or ten years, but not if they promise to remove it within two, he's living on a different planet

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The former SNP MP Stewart McDonald reckons his party has a problem with credibility and seriousness, but the 'solutions' he puts for...
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Labour's win in Scotland was 'loveless' but it certainly wasn't a 'landslide' - their 5.3% margin of victory over the SNP was the smallest margin for a winning party in Scotland since 1974

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I can claim an assist from Jackson Carlaw on this post, because I remember him trying to undermine the SNP's 2017 win by saying their ma...
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Thursday, July 11, 2024

The average support for independence in recent polls is 47.5%

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I repeatedly warned that if independence supporters were foolish enough to vote Labour last Thursday (which undoubtedly happened in large nu...
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