2015 general election
SNP and Plaid Cymru are just 1% behind the Liberal Democrats in latest Britain-wide YouGov poll
These results are becoming positively commonplace, but it's always worth pointing them out, especially given that the broadcasters are still outr…
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2015 general election
Blankety-Blank, Blankety-Blank. Blankety-Blank, Blankety-Blank. Super Max Game, Super Max Game, Super Max Game. Super Max Game!
I must have been living down a hole over the last week, because I somehow missed this notorious comment from Downing Street spokesman George Galloway…
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2015 general election
The Lib Dems' fondness for nuclear weapons makes them either stupid or illiberal
Courtesy of the BBC iplayer, I've finally caught up with Alex Salmond's appearance on Any Questions (appearance is obviously the wrong word …
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2015 general election
Support for independence reaches 50% for the first time ever in a Survation poll
I'll keep this relatively brief, because after the tragedy in Glasgow only ten hours ago, I know none of us are really in the mood for politics a…
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2015 general election
Do UKIP's threats to scupper the Smith package with an "Axis of EVEL" have the slightest credibility?
UKIP's David Coburn, aka "the Pride of Scotland", renowned for brilliant insights such as his claim a few months back that the No-suppo…
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2015 general election
Scottish voters pulverise Cameron's "it's over for a lifetime" arrogance even more comprehensively, as Survation poll shows 59% want a second independence referendum within the next ten years
More details from last night's Survation poll have now emerged, and of particular interest are the findings on when (or if) a second independence…
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2015 general election
Comical Jim
You might remember that in the dying days of Iain Duncan Smith's leadership of the Tory party, the Mirror produced a front page with the self-st…
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2015 general election
Ah, so THAT'S what Gregg McClymont's signature looks like
Here are two facts - Fact 1 : I received a letter today from Gregg McClymont, my local Labour MP. In spite of being an anti-SNP propaganda letter, i…
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2015 general election
Je suis désolé, Monsieur Jackanory, but the SNP's showing in the first post-Easter YouGov subsample suggests the "Frenchgate" smear may not have had the desired effect
After a wait of several days, we at last have the first Scottish subsample from a GB-wide poll to have been entirely conducted after the Telegraph &#…
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2015 general election
If only you had listened to Jackanory Jim, things would have been much the same
Mark Coburn suggested tonight that Scottish Labour's Twitter account seemed to have been hacked, and I think I've spotted what he means. Eve…
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2015 general election
SNP lead by a commanding 17% in deeply gratifying new YouGov poll
A new full-scale YouGov poll has appeared in today's Scottish Sun ... Scottish voting intentions for the May 2015 UK general election (YouGov, 26…
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2015 general election
It took time to understand Jim, we know Jim so well
STV's Stephen Daisley is a superb and frequently hilarious writer, and we've a lot to be grateful to him for - he's often been a construc…
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2015 general election
Extraordinary from the YouGov poll - the SNP would have led by 24% even WITHOUT the new turnout filter
A number of us wondered last night if the sharp increase in the SNP's lead was a sign that YouGov had introduced a turnout filter in their full-s…
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2015 general election
When I find myself in times of boredom, my mate Murphy comes to me, speaking words of narcissism, glory be...
Can you guess which of these is a genuine tweet from Jim Murphy, and which one I've just made up? "To Mrs Lily Ritchie of Girvan Rd : open y…
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2015 general election
Despair for Jim Murphy as early straws in the wind suggest his coronation has failed to dent the SNP's enormous opinion poll lead
Jackanory Jim's investiture as the High Priest of Patriotism was, according to his most devoted admirers (many of them southern Tories), supposed…
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2015 general election
Miliband attempts the Harold Wilson strategy - but without Wilson's winning hand
To the best of my knowledge, today marks the first time that Ed Miliband has explicitly "ruled out" a confidence-and-supply deal with the S…
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2015 general election
If you thought there was something fishy about the latest Panelbase poll, you were probably right
Many of you will recall that the famous YouGov poll on the penultimate weekend was not in fact the first time in the long referendum campaign that Ye…
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2015 general election
SNP notch up astonishing 17% lead in Scot Goes Pop Poll of Polls
I'm in a mad rush this afternoon, but I thought I'd give you a lightning-quick Poll of Polls update, because once again it makes for rather p…
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2015 general election
Craig Murray
I've been following Craig Murray's quest to become an SNP candidate at the general election with quite a bit of interest and curiosity, becau…
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2015 general election
15% of British voters would prefer the SNP as a coalition partner at Westminster
I overlooked a fascinating supplementary question in one of the two Britain-wide YouGov polls on Sunday. Respondents were asked which one of six pos…
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