“A little East Midlands Derby here in Rome”
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“A little East Midlands Derby here in Rome”
Why are English rugby commentators such parochial pricks?
Why are politicians and media pundits continually bemused by the success of the Scottish National Party, in a country where the majority of the electorate support independence?
Wake up and smell the coffee, unionists!
I think that’s unlikely as Greens don’t normally stand in a lot of constituencies- the regional vote is their main opportunity to elect MSPs.
Aye 😂
The new Survation poll marks a new milestone as the weighted sample, for the first time, has fewer 2014 No voters (35%) than those who did not vote (36%). Hat's off to this pollster for accurately reflecting demographic change. Hat's back on, however, for them continuing to use 2024 weighting!
The Labour government’s flagship nuclear project, Hinkley Point C, is now expected to cost £49 billion - the equivalent of around £9000 for every person in Scotland.
People in Scotland will now pay at least £300m extra on their energy bills with a decade-long nuclear tax on Scottish energy bills.
Thanks for the shout! Always enjoy your blogs.
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Yes I agree, but the SNP are not going to push folk to vote for another party. Particularly given their foolhardy majority gambit.
I think the SNP claiming they need a majority for another #indyref was a foolish decision. It's virtually impossible to get one through this electoral system. It requires a massive vote share on the regional list that simply is no longer there.
I agree. The idea of an SNP majority is a shibboleth, but you can see why they push that strategy. SGP for the regional vote makes most sense for a pro-indy majority.
This is a very good poll for the SNP; with a huge lead on both votes. It also shows further evidence of the stalling of Reform UK who had peaked at around 22%.
I have no idea how a poll commissioned by an organisation which is constitutionally obliged to protect the British union, could find so many Yes to No switchers…
Unfortunately it’s either that, or national BBC; where Scotland, England & devolution don’t exist. And where we live as ‘Britons’ in ‘the country/ nation’ and are governed by ‘the Government’.
I have recalibrated the Savanta 2014 Yes sample (which was uncharacteristically high) using the Ipsos voting intention figures.
The reason being that Savanta had 35% of Yes voters switching to No.
Applying (a not unreasonable) 18% switch gives us the 60% overall figure.
I have no idea how a poll commissioned by an organisation which is constitutionally obliged to protect the British union, could find so many Yes to No switchers…
Bar chart showing the published BBC Savanta poll figures of 51% Yes and 49% No It also shows how this would look if we used ‘normal’ voting patterns from Ipsos
To highlight how bizarre that BBC Scotland #indyref poll from Savanta was, I applied yesterday’s Ipsos voting figures to the 2014 Yes sample in the Savanta poll. These were 71% /18% /10% (Yes/No/DK). This gives us a 60% Yes vote (excluding don’t knows).
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Proud to meet four heroes in Parliament today. Sandie Peggie, the Darlington Nurses and Jennifer Melle. They have shown tremendous courage and bravery in challenging a warped ideology and a culture of virtue signalling that rewards institutional cowardice. Thankfully, the tide is
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Our Home Affairs Select Committee report on the Maccabi Tel Aviv fan ban has been published. An extraordinary and unjustified decision that exposed serious failures within West Midlands Police.
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid My column in the Herald on Sunday: the Scottish grooming gangs inquiry is welcome. We must also confront how our third sector has become institutionally corrupted to the point where it sides with SNP ministers instead of standing with women and girls
Joani Reid MP @JoaniReid Follow The SNP are taking the biscuit. They chose to turn Glasgow into sanctuary for asylum seekers through their own virtue-signalling policies, and now they want the Home Office to bail them out.
for anyone wondering why there’s so much unbridled joy on ScotPol Bluesky about the arrest of a Scottish Labour MP’s husband for spying for China, take your pick
Big money has bought British politics
75% of Reform’s money has come from three rich white men
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/75-of-refo...
Parachuted into a Labour seat in Scotland after eight years in a London council and husband arrested for spying for the Chinese? The perfect choice for Labour MP.
www.thenational.scot/news/2590739...
I see Celtic have a player called Ben Arthur.
I wonder if he’s known as the Cobbler?
They could add some additional checks around age and voting behaviour but ultimately if someone lies you can’t do much. But with such a massive upsurge to the Yes sample some more checks are clearly needed.
As mentioned by @weegingerdug.bsky.social there is something very odd about this poll. The 2014 Yes sample has increased massively- but many seem to be ‘false flag’ Yessers who either lied or misremembered their 2014 vote.
My latest blog piece. The BBC's Scottish indy poll is very odd indeed, more polling on the Holyrood election and BBC Scotland's double standards following the arrest of right wing Labour MP Joani Reid's husband on suspicion of spying for China.
weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/03/04/t...
Also, why is this titled "BBC Scotland Immigration poll"?
They're letting the cat out of the bag here, methinks!
It's also a very dubious poll, which inexplicably has a very large sample of 2014 Yes voters, but more than a third of them claim they will vote No. This doesn't align with either common sense, anecdotal findings and indeed any other pollster!
Bar chart showing the reported percentage of 2014 Yes voters who say they plan to vote No. Figures are: Yougov: 16% Norstat: 10% Survation: 9% Opinium: 9% Ipsos: 15% More in Common: 13% Savanta (BBC): 35%
As I suspected, that 35% figure for Yes voters voting No in the BBC's #Indyref2 poll is very dodgy. It's more than twice the level that any other pollster has found. The figure is typically 10% to 15%. The over-inflation of "yes voters" in the sample is either inaccurate or fake.
Tracking our *negative* voting intention (who would Britons vote AGAINST):
➡️ Ref 38% (+9)
🌹Lab 34% (-4)
🌳 Con 7% (-1)
🌏 Green 7% (+4)
🐦 LD 3% (-)
changes w/ Nov 2025
As Reform has plateaued in the polls, the number of people saying they would also vote *against* Reform has grown
One highly dubious figure in these tables is the 35% of 2014 Yes voters who say they'd vote no. It's never been that high and goes against the direction of travel of every other poll.
It could be a lot of false recall (perhaps malicious?) I've never seen so many 2014 Yes voters in a sample before!
Definitely a non-voter.
They don't let madmen vote, right?