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This is not a drill: the independence results from the new Scot Goes Pop poll will be released TONIGHT I'll post the link to the video revealing the results once I've scheduled it.  (I'm trying to build up some suspense and anticipation here...

This is not a drill: the independence results from the new Scot Goes Pop poll will be released TONIGHT -

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A heads-up: a new Scot Goes Pop-commissioned opinion poll will be published before election day So a small announcement - I have commissioned Scot Goes Pop's first opinion poll since the two that were done back-to-back during the SNP le...

A heads-up: a new Scot Goes Pop-commissioned opinion poll will be published before election day -

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You now have less than 30 hours to ensure all the independence supporters in your life are registered to vote In a sense the title says it all, but it perhaps doesn't quite capture the scale of the problem, because data from 2023 suggests 20% of the ...

You now have less than 30 hours to ensure all the independence supporters in your life are registered to vote -

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List seat BONANZA forecast by MRP poll as JL Partners suggest the SNP are on course for an overall majority with the help of TEN LIST SEATS I feel like I should say something about the new JL Partners / Telegraph MRP poll for the Holyrood election, but I'm actually struggling to ...

List seat BONANZA forecast by MRP poll as JL Partners suggest the SNP are on course for an overall majority with the help of TEN LIST SEATS -

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The question that Anas Sarwar now needs to answer The Scottish Labour party and its allies, including Paul Hutcheon of the Daily Record and Professor James Mitchell (who is increasingly drop...

The question that Anas Sarwar now needs to answer -

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In an analogue age Anas Sarwar might have got away with that - but this is a digital age, and he didn't I forgot all about the Channel 4 leaders' debate, so I didn't watch it live, but obviously I soon heard of Offord's revelation about Anas Sa...

In an analogue age Anas Sarwar might have got away with that - but this is a digital age, and he didn't:

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The Greens have now been crowned the undisputed Olympic champions of misleading bar charts on election leaflets - they're bizarrely claiming that SNP-held Edinburgh Central is a two-horse race between... A few weeks ago, the Green co-leader Ross Greer posted a Labour leaflet from Strathkelvin & Bearsden, mocking it for containing a particular...

The Greens crowned the Olympic champions of misleading bar charts on election leaflets - they're claiming that SNP-held Edinburgh Central is a two-horse race between themselves and Labour, and their source for this improbable claim is *themselves* -

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REVEALED: The hard science that makes Both Votes SNP such an effective strategy - why the "Make Mine A Double" voting craze is mathematically sound as well as fashionable and trendy OK, the title of this blogpost is mainly there to wind up Stew, but there is actually a very serious point behind it, and it's one that may ...

REVEALED: The hard science that makes Both Votes SNP such an effective strategy - why the "Make Mine A Double" voting craze is mathematically sound as well as fashionable and trendy:

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Even YouGov now say the Union Jack could soon be LOWERED as sensational MRP poll shows SNP on course for an overall majority MRP Seats projection (YouGov / Sky News / The Times, 23rd March-8th April 2026): SNP 67 Reform UK 20 Labour 15 Greens 11 Liberal Democrats 9...

Even YouGov now say the Union Jack could soon be LOWERED as sensational MRP poll shows SNP on course for an overall majority -

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The "Make Mine A Double" voting craze that is sweeping the nation: why all the most fashionable trendsetters - and Stew - agree it has to be BOTH votes SNP in May There's actually a serious point here, because Stew is far from the only right-wing commentator who has argued that a Green return to gove...

The "Make Mine A Double" voting craze that is sweeping the nation: why all the most fashionable trendsetters - and Stew - agree it has to be BOTH votes SNP in May:

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The crazy, topsy-turvy logic (and in some cases hypocrisy) of the "tactical voting on the list" advocates I'm beginning to think I'm going to have to mute certain accounts on Twitter to get through the rest of the Holyrood campaign with my sanity...

The crazy, topsy-turvy logic (and in some cases hypocrisy) of the "tactical voting on the list" advocates -

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Pro-independence parties on course to win an astonishing 62% of seats in the next Scottish Parliament, says sumptuous Ipsos poll Scottish Parliament constituency ballot (Ipsos, 26th-31st March 2026): SNP 39% Reform UK 15% Labour 15% Conservatives 11% Liberal Democrats ...

Pro-independence parties on course to win an astonishing 62% of seats in the next Scottish Parliament, says sumptuous Ipsos poll -

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Catastrophe for Starmer as Labour slump to joint all-time low in weekly YouGov poll, level with the Greens - the SNP have huge 18-point lead in Scottish subsample YouGov have suddenly and belatedly started including Rupert Lowe's Restore Britain and Jeremy Corbyn's Your Party as options in their weekly...

Catastrophe for Starmer as Labour slump to joint all-time low in weekly YouGov poll, level with the Greens - the SNP have huge 18-point lead in Scottish subsample:

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More on the MRP poll: the 67-seat projection for the SNP may even be an underestimate due to the Greens being included in too many seats Some more details of the Find Out Now MRP poll for The National have been published on the Electoral Calculus website.  Whoever wrote the ar...

More on the MRP poll: the 67-seat projection for the SNP may even be an underestimate due to the Greens being included in too many seats -

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Find Out Now - ZAP WHAM POW - that a new MRP poll shows the SNP on course for an overall majority As you may have seen, a new Find Out Now MRP poll commissioned by The National is suggesting that the SNP are on course for an overall major...

Find Out Now - ZAP WHAM POW - that a new MRP poll shows the SNP on course for an overall majority:

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Bombshell GB-wide Ashcroft poll is the first not to show Reform in an outright lead for the first time in over a year - Greens are in joint lead for the first time ever - Labour are in FOURTH - and th... So this is a genuine landmark for the reasons given in the title, and it's also worth making the point that the data tables (unless I'm misi...

Loopy billionaire lord tries to convince us that funding the NHS with fair taxation is as impossible as enhancing the size of women's breasts with hypnotherapy -

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Bombshell GB-wide Ashcroft poll is the first not to show Reform in an outright lead for the first time in over a year - Greens are in joint lead for the first time ever - Labour are in FOURTH - and th... So this is a genuine landmark for the reasons given in the title, and it's also worth making the point that the data tables (unless I'm misi...

Bombshell GB-wide Ashcroft poll is the first not to show Reform in an outright lead for the first time in a year - Greens are in joint lead for the first time ever - Labour are in FOURTH - and the SNP have overtaken Labour UK-wide in the seats projection:

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"But what if that other voice we all know so well responds by saying 'we say no, and we are the state'?" A former commenter on this blog from way back in the 2014 indyref period got in touch with a question a few days ago, and I've been so busy ...

"But what if that other voice we all know so well responds by saying 'we say no, and we are the state'?" -

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My plans for Scot Goes Pop's coverage of the Holyrood election campaign This post will come as a relief to some of you, because I've decided to temporarily go back to conventional blogging for the remainder of th...

My plans for Scot Goes Pop's coverage of the Holyrood election campaign -

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Joani of (Noah's nuclear-armed) Arc The senior naval officer Reid was reported for 'inappropriate' behaviour with at Faslane is *separate* to the captain she is linked to tonig...

Joani of (Noah's nuclear-armed) Arc -

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Shock poll portends weather boffin coup threat for Atlas chief Lyon You've probably seen the propaganda poll from yesterday that the hapless Alliance to Liberate Scotland, aka "the Atlas", commissioned from F...

Shock poll portends weather boffin coup threat for Atlas chief Lyon -

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The Alliance to Liberate Scotland and their "Big Lie": the Sovereignty Party are so spooked by being identified as far-right that they have started telling direct, flat-out lies about the contents of ... My latest Holyrood constituency profile for The National is Edinburgh Northern .

The Alliance to Liberate Scotland and their "Big Lie": the Sovereignty Party are so spooked by being identified as far-right that they have started telling direct, flat-out lies about the contents of their 2024 manifesto -

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Are you sure it isn't you who is making a bad guess about who and what was being referred to in my article? The fact that you are guessing is beyond dispute, because where in the article were you even mentioned? That's right: nowhere.

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A brief reply to Ballot Box Scotland about my profile of the Edinburgh Central constituency Allan Faulds, the Green party member who runs the psephological Ballot Box Scotland site, has taken a passive-aggressive swipe at me because...

A brief reply to Ballot Box Scotland about my profile of the Edinburgh Central constituency -

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Revealed: the far-right have almost totally taken over the "Alliance to Liberate Scotland" fringe party in the Highlands & Islands region I said in my video about the far-right elements of Barrhead Boy's new fringe party "Alliance to Liberate Scotland" (aka "the Atlas") that I...

Revealed: the far-right have almost totally taken over the "Alliance to Liberate Scotland" fringe party in the Highlands & Islands region -

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Let's keep the independence movement clean: avoid the dodgy far-right links of the fringe party "Alliance to Liberate Scotland" (aka "The Atlas") A pro-independence blog by James Kelly - one of Scotland's three most-read political blogs.

Let's keep the independence movement clean: avoid the dodgy far-right links of the fringe party "Alliance to Liberate Scotland" (aka "The Atlas") -

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The NHS is Reform's Achilles heel, and they should be hammered on it I received a Reform leaflet through the door this morning, emblazened with photos of Malcolm Offord.  And because I'm interested in polls, I...

The NHS is Reform's Achilles heel, and they should be hammered on it -

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Lord Ashcroft's dodgiest poll question is one the health inspectors should be all over I've been having a more leisurely look through the results of the supplementary questions in the Ashcroft poll, and I think there are three ...

Lord Ashcroft's dodgiest poll question is one the health inspectors should be all over -

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Ashcroft poll: pro-independence parties could take overall majority of VOTES as well as SEATS A pro-independence blog by James Kelly - one of Scotland's three most-read political blogs.

Ashcroft poll: pro-independence parties could take overall majority of VOTES as well as SEATS -

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Thank you, your lordship! Sensational Ashcroft poll shows SNP on highest vote share of John Swinney's leadership - SNP-Green coalition preferred to all Labour-led alternatives - independence support ... The contents have it!  I'll try to make a video about this poll when I have a spare moment, but for now the basic facts deserve mentioning, ...

Thank you, your lordship! Sensational Ashcroft poll shows SNP on highest vote share of John Swinney's leadership - SNP-Green coalition preferred to all Labour-led alternatives - independence support up 4:

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