18th March 2015 Comment How Scotland should be governed
It has become a common assertion that, while people might have been very involved in the debate about the independence referendum, they probably do not want to continue talking further about questions of devolution and UK governance. In particular people outside Scotland surely must be fed up with the continued preoccupation with such questions? However, […]
13th March 2015 Comment How Scotland should be governed
Rather remarkably the SNP have in recent days become one of the central talking points of the UK-wide general election campaign, thanks to Conservative attempts to push Labour into ruling out any kind of post-election deal with the SNP. Doubtless the SNP themselves are lapping up the implicit acknowledgement from their opponents that they seem […]
13th March 2015 Comment Elections, parties & leaders
The graph below shows the latest What Scotland Thinks/ScotCen Poll of Polls of voting intentions in Scotland for the 2015 UK general election and how it has evolved over time. The latest Poll of Polls is based on two polls by YouGov, one poll by TNS BMRB, and one by Survation. Between them the four […]
4th March 2015 Comment Elections, parties & leaders
Last month Lord Ashcroft published polls of voting intentions in 16 individual constituencies in Scotland that showed the SNP ahead in all but one, Glasgow NE, the seat with the largest Labour lead over the SNP anywhere in Scotland. The findings seemed to confirm extrapolations made from Scotland-wide polls that suggested the SNP were on […]
27th February 2015 Comment Elections, parties & leaders
February has (almost) come and gone and there is still no sign of Labour making any significant inroad into the SNP’s lead in voting intentions for May’s Westminster election – which is now little more than two months away. In their latest monthly poll published today, TNS BMRB actually put the SNP up 5 points […]
27th February 2015 Comment Elections, parties & leaders
The graph below shows the latest What Scotland Thinks/ScotCen Poll of Polls of voting intentions in Scotland for the 2015 UK general election and how it has evolved over time. The latest Poll of Polls is based on two polls by TNS BMRB, one by Survation and one by YouGov. Between them the four polls […]
20th February 2015 Comment National identity and cultural issues
It has been described as “Scotland’s Shame”. And indeed according to a new report published today by the Scottish Government and based on findings from the 2014 Scottish Social Attitudes survey, much of the Scottish public appears to agree that it is a problem. But what should be done about it is, perhaps, a rather […]
19th February 2015 Comment Elections, parties & leaders
The latest monthly poll by Survation for the Daily Record is published today. So far as Westminster vote intentions are concerned, it still leaves Labour, on 28%, trailing the SNP, on 45%, by as much as 17 points – enough to see Labour lose three-quarters of the seats that it currently holds north of the […]
19th February 2015 Comment Elections, parties & leaders
The graph below shows the latest What Scotland Thinks/ScotCen Poll of Polls of voting intentions in Scotland for the 2015 UK general election and how it has evolved over time. The latest Poll of Polls is based on one poll by Survation, one by Ipsos MORI, one by TNS BMRB, and one by YouGov. Between […]
10th February 2015 Comment Elections, parties & leaders
There is slightly better news for Labour in a poll of voting intentions published by TNS BMRB this morning. It puts the party on 31% (amongst those certain to vote), just ten points behind the SNP on 41%. In contrast the three previous Scotland wide polls to be published put the SNP lead at between […]
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