Saturday, May 31, 2025

Massive boost for the SNP prior to the Hamilton by-election as they retain a substantial lead in full-scale Scottish poll - and support for independence has surged to astonishing 54%

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Should Scotland be an independent country? (Norstat / Sunday Times, 27th-30th May 2025) Yes 54% (+4) No 46% (-4) Although it's the indep...
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The levels of support for Reform UK in one corner of Bath are Stewpefying

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I don't know about you, alert readers, but I'm starting to get the impression that the controversial "Stew" blogger is jus...
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Gordon Millar and the gaslighting on Gaza: why did Ariel Sharon really order Israel's withdrawal from the Gaza Strip in 2005, and were his motivations really selfless enough to compel a "reward"?

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I had yet another session of being gaslighted last night about Gordon Millar's Sacred Comment .  I must say if only the people of Gaza e...
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Friday, May 30, 2025

A reply to Neil Sinclair and Gordon Millar: sorry chaps, but this blog does have an active moderation policy. Dehumanising language about the Palestinian ethnic group, and justifications of the calls for the extermination of that group, are not welcome here and never, ever will be.

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Until today I was a member of a chat group which was mostly comprised of a number of former Alba members, plus also a small number of curren...
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Does anyone feel up to reporting the Express to the press regulator for this ridiculously misleading headline?

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There's an article on the Scottish Daily Express website today with the title "Humiliation for SNP as Nigel Farage's Reform UK ...
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Thursday, May 29, 2025

For the people of Hamilton: a choice of two futures

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There has been much discussion over the last 24 hours about the straight two-way choice of futures that the people of Hamilton, Larkhall and...
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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Barrhead Boy's tone-deaf meltdown puts it beyond all doubt: "Liberate Scotland" is not a credible electoral proposition, and it does not have credible leadership

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I have some past history with Roddy MacLeod, aka "Barrhead Boy" (among other things, we were on the Alba NEC together for a year),...
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Update on YouGov's Scottish subsample figures

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Thank you to an anonymous commenter who has pointed out that I had the wrong Scottish subsample figures for the YouGov poll in the previous ...
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Catastrophe for Keir Starmer as Labour slip to new post-election low of just 21% in YouGov poll - while the SNP lead by 9 points in the Scottish subsample

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GB-wide voting intentions (YouGov, 26th-27th May 2025): Reform UK 29% (-) Labour 21% (-1) Conservatives 19% (+3) Liberal Democrats 15% (-2) ...
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

Any independence supporters tempted to vote for the Liberate Scotland alliance should be aware that it contains a party that wants to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights and roll back the welfare state

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As many of you will know, the Alba Party faces a potentially existential threat from a new electoral alliance called 'Liberate Scotland...
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