Thursday, February 20, 2025

Farquharson wants John Swinney to give Starmer political cover for cutting funds to Scotland to pay for British military adventurism abroad. That does not strike me as great advice.

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Kenny "Devo or Death" Farquharson, aka "Jurassic Farq", has penned a column this week framing the choice for John Swinne...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Reform UK double their GB-wide lead and hit a new all-time record high vote share in YouGov poll - but SNP retain double-digit lead in the Scottish subsample

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I had wondered after the last batch of polls whether the Reform UK vote might finally have plateaued, but that theory seems to have gone out...
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Tuesday, February 18, 2025

This is, apparently, not a practical joke - Chris McEleny is genuinely standing for depute leader of the Alba Party while still under suspension for "gross misconduct". This is the sort of thing that happens to political parties when they are disintegrating.

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Thrilling news for Alba members this afternoon: if you don't think Chris "Disgruntled Employee" McEleny, aka "Dzhugashvil...
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If Alba are going back to begging for "tactical" votes, the basic arithmetic of the situation is going to make it very hard to convince people

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The Alba Party's suspended General Secretary broke his radio silence on Twitter at the weekend.  SNP on course to win 3/4 of constituenc...
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Saturday, February 15, 2025

Natty Norstat poll is yet another to show the SNP and Greens on course to retain the PRO-INDEPENDENCE MAJORITY at Holyrood - with Labour on the brink of being overtaken by Reform

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I was just about to give you the full figures from tonight's new Norstat poll, but the archived page I was relying on has stopped workin...
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Reform's Scottish votes are coming from unionist parties to a much greater extent than from the SNP

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Yesterday people were looking at the result of the Kirkintilloch by-election, and because there was a Reform surge and an SNP collapse, they...
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Friday, February 14, 2025

ALBA CLUEDO, THE SEQUEL: So who did it to Tasmina, with the mobile phone, in the Balkan country? Who could *possibly* have a strong enough motive to want to end her political career with a damaging leak? Investigators narrow it down to a list of 6572 prime suspects.

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The remaining members of the Alba Party, colloquially known as NYEs (Not Yet Expelleds), have been gripped once again today by Whodunnit fev...
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Strange happenings on Twechar Beach as Labour flatline but still make a by-election gain

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So let me once again take you by the hand and try to navigate you through the wacky world of STV by-elections.  The Liberal Democrats were t...
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Thursday, February 13, 2025

Nigel Farage on course for Downing Street as cataclysmic Find Out Now poll sees Reform move into record-breaking six point lead

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GB-wide voting intentions (Find Out Now, 12th February 2025): Reform UK 29% (-) Labour 23% (-2) Conservatives 21% (+3) Liberal Democrats 12%...
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Second YouGov poll in a row shows Reform ahead - with an enormous SNP lead in the Scottish subsample

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When Reform UK took the lead in a recent YouGov poll, I pointed out the oddity that in doing so, they hadn't quite matched their all-tim...
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