What do you do when you’re a right wing British nationalist government in an election yearand you’ve been 20% behind in the polls for months? Even with the assistance of a supine media which looks the other way when there is mounting evidence of your rampant corruption and chronic chaos and happily propagates your bare faced lies and gaslighting, you still can’t make a dent in the polling lead enjoyed by an opposition party which has stolen many of your most egregiously nasty policies and which has abased itself to being an opposition in name only.
That’s the situation that the Tories currently find themselves in, they’re a right wing populist party which isn’t very popular at all, the political equivalent of a pub bore who vomits up all over your shoes then demands that you pay him for regaling you with what he believes to be his wit and wisdom.
Rishi Sunak has now deployed the favourite tactic of vile British nationalist governments which have outstayed their welcome, joining in with American military action in a Middle Eastern country, launching air strikes on dozens of targets across Yemen following Houthi attacks on shipping transiting past Yemen in the Red Sea. There’s nothing like a war to boost bad opinion polls. Sunak will be hoping that this is his Falklands moment, this is the unexpected turn of events that will save his political skin. He won’t care at all that it’s purchased at the price of the literal skins of innocent Yemeni civilians who are caught in the crossfire. Far from trying to deescalate the conflict, the UK has joined with the Americans in bombing a third country in order to protect arms supplies to Israel, which stands accused of committing ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
Yemeni media has reported loud explosions in the cities of Sana’a, Hodeidah, Saada, Hajja, and Dhamar. There are multiple reports of British and American military aircraft in the skies across Yemen. The Iranian backed Houthi regime in Yemen is already warning of retaliatory measures, and the risk of further escalation is now alarmingly high.
There’s nothing better than joining in an American led war against the kind of people that the Daily Mail imagines to be ‘invading’ the UK in small boats crossing the English Channel to allow a politician to wrap himself in the union flag and pose as a world statesman. Meanwhile the excited talking heads on the right wing channels gush about military hardware and puff up the fantasy that Britain is still a superpower.
Late on Thursday evening, the US and Britain launched air and missile strikes against Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen, with the purported aim of halting attacks on ships in the Red Sea. The attacks came on the same day that the Israeli government was facing allegations in the International Court of Justice in the Hague that it was committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza. But rather than forcing Israel to stop committing crimes against humanity in Gaza, the British political class seems intent on escalating the situation by attacking Yemen risking provoking a more widespread war and heaping further misery on the beleaguered and impoverished people of Yemen, who have for years endured repeated attacks by the Western backed Saudis. Our politicians are psychopaths. They’ve done more to respond to some ships being attacked than they have for people being carpet bombed and killed by the thousands for the past 3 months.
Despite ordering the UK military to bomb Yemen without any parliamentary debate, scrutiny or vote, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will not be recalling Parliament tomorrow to discuss the UK military intervention in Yemen. Sunak did however brief his cabinet, Keir Starmer, and Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker of the House of Commons, before launching military action. He did not inform MPs or Stephen Flynn, the leader of the third largest party in the Commons. Steven Swinford, the political editor of The Times newspaper, reported that Sunak had to dispense with the usual convention of informing Parliament of the military intervention because the airstrikes were expected within hours, in other words because the UK was running to keep up with the American timetable.
This could have been avoided if the British Government and the leader of the Labour party had put the same energy and commitment into pressuring Israel to agree to a ceasefire in Gaza as they are now putting into escalating the conflict into Yemen. Doubtless we can expect Keir Starmer to announce that he fully supports the deployment of British military force, and indeed, to no one’s surprise, on Friday morning Starmer told the BBC that he and his party “fully support” this action. The principle free zone that is Scotland’s pair of Labour MPs will obediently do Starmer’s bidding. Once again, Labour is one the side of the Tories, on the side of militarism. In 2020 Keir Starmer said no more illegal wars. He said that he would only back war if it was legal, had a viable objective and Parliament gave consent. The current military action on Yemen has no Parliamentary consent yet he supports it. Another day, another right wing U turn from Starmer.
Starmer justified military action against Yemen as “preventing civilian casualties” in the Red Sea – but he is unwilling to call for a ceasefire in order to end Israel’s mass slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. The hypocrisy is breath taking.
This latest military adventure comes despite the fact, as Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf pointed out: “The UK does not have a good record of military intervention in the Middle East.” Lessons learned from Iraq and Libya, zero. Here we bloody go again, another dire and dismal cycle of death and devastation. More lives lost. More children maimed, more hatred stored up to be unleashed in an orgy of violence in the future.
The First Minister added: “It is therefore incumbent that Westminster is recalled, MPs briefed and allowed to debate and scrutinise any decision to pursue military action that the UK Government is proposing.”
The militaristic posturing of British nationalism takes priority over trivialities like democracy or accountability. It’s striking that the British Government can always conjure up a magic money tree for going to war but declares that it’s impossible to find the money to tackle poverty. There is limitless cash available for blowing up brown skinned people with ruinously expensive military hardware, but not for paying doctors or nurses.
The British Government has once more shown itself to be Washington’s poodle, joining in as the wealthiest country in the world bombs one of the poorest countries in the world in order to prevent Red Sea attacks by the Houthis that a ceasefire in Gaza would prevent much more effectively. Brexit Britain, where a Prime Minister who wasn’t even elected by his own party goes to war, without debating the subject in our supposedly sovereign parliament, and where Scotland yet again gets dragged into a war without being consulted and without having any say. And where the leader of the Opposition will collude just as enthusiastically with the militaristic posturing of a senile post-imperial state. British nationalism’s politics of psychopathy destroys all that it touches.
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Brilliant article. Humza Yousaf can put an ocean of clear blue water between Scotland and the disastrous policies of the Westminster Government. Psychopathy is a mild description of the murderous rampage that the UK indulges in whenever its interests are threatened. They seem to have lost the ability to negotiate with anyone. Diplomacy is dead. Illegal wars R Us.
Today, Sunak flew to Kiev to sign up to more involvement in their war with Russia. This has not been raised in Parliament either. No debate.
You’re right, it’s an election year and so another British Prime Minister feels justified in apeing Winston Churchill and bombing little nations. But that little nation has Iran behind it and that would be a different level of escalation altogether.
It matters not whether anybody agrees or disagrees with war or military action because what’s happened here is the unelected by even his own party members Rishi Sunak has endowed himself with monarchial powers and gone right ahead without so much as a phone call to the other three elected leaders of this *United Kingdom
No scrutiny, no warning, no co-operation, no nothing to the three other countries involved
Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland are informed by television media pictures that we are involved in a war, an armed conflict, a campaign, call it what you will, but what you can’t call it is anything that even resembles democracy
Rishi Sunak has like Boris Johnson effectively crowned himself King dictator of the British Isles, he consults no one, he asks no one, and he has the absolute temerity not to even inform anyone after he’s done it
This is not the behaviour of any union of countries anywhere on this planet, this is out of control power control just for the sake of it, he does this because no one will hold him accountable
The media in Britain is so controlled they don’t even mention it
Rishi Sunak is not the King of any country, he’s not the President of anything, nobody elected this guy to any position in any of our three countries other than an English local MP for the House of Commons
Could there be anything worse? well yes there could, Labour party leader Sir Kier Starmer agreed without question everything Sunak just did and yet he was never told either
So in effect Starmer is saying he’d have behaved in exactly the same manner
So what do you think Scotland Wales and Northern Ireland? do you think you count to the leaders of England unelected or not?
Well of course you don’t, we’re all bloody nothing to these people
This just in
The BBC has just stated Rishi Sunak didn’t have to inform anybody
Well that just makes it even worse, because announcing they know what Sunak did was 100% questionable and unreasonable the BBC are getting their miserable lack of reporting responsibilities defense in early
This power structure in England has got to stop, and we can stop it by dumping their Arses out of our lives
Sunak’s actions put millions of people at risk and he couldn’t be bothered to even tell us
Madness!!
I’m pretty confident that Sunak at the very least had to inform Charlieboy, the privy council(privy Councilors) the cabinet and only policies and actions approved by parliament have that magic cloak of protection should it all go wrong. Bit of a risk for Sunak if he’s looking for a long term career in politics, which he clearly isn’t, America would appear to be his preferred destination and if he is granted American citizenship we’ll never get him back. Particularly since he’s a long way down the road of giving access to the NHS and much else, to US private Corporations. He may well go down in history as their man in Havanna, sorry the UK. It says much about our political arena that it resembles more a 1938 Germany than a functioning democracy.
498 billion cubic feet of gas, oil, gold, cobalt, zinc etc seem to be common assets in those countries singled out for US and uk ‘ help, not that the locals will see more than a few beads but plenty of smoke and fire.
Golfnut.
This is what British nationalism and warmongering does to support for unionist parties. % share of the total electorate backing all the unionist parties of any significance from 1997 to Nov 2023 polls (latter from certain to vote turnout projection).
As you can see again, in the simplest possible terms, there has been no unionist revival in Scotland. Their share of the electorate has fallen again since 2019 as Yes has climbed amongst their ranks and Lab voters have moved to SNP. But you can’t see this unless you correct for the unfeasibly low projected turnouts caused by low SNP response rates and or CTV levels.
So very, very far from 1997. And that 36.6% contains a lot of Labour yes supporters.
The end of the union is nigh, but it’s going to sneak up on the unionists so they will not be prepared for it.
It’s like living in a time warp:
http://tinyurl.com/zaez5fdh
Rarely have I been so angry at James “the suit” Cook’s propaganda – Parading ” FM calls for UK parliament recall over Yemen air strikes ” https://archive.ph/m0IY4 he does every right-thinking Scot the dis-service of presuming them blind to the obvious – It has nothing whatever to do with comment by Yousaf, his wife, his mother-in-law, or Nadia El-Nakla’s sister-in-law and her four children having escaped Gaza, or her brother in Gaza still trying to save lives, not a damned thing.
EVERYONE is furious about this latest “the Empire strikes back” episode, and all James is interested in is a gong.
England’s British/UK is a power mad rogue state declaring armed conflict on others without consultation with the other three member countries
How dare they claim to represent a union of countries when they can’t even be bothered to pick up the phone to the heads of our elected governments to inform or consult them on any crisis situation
The US makes a call to Sunak and he does what he hopes will make him more electable in England
Total disregard for any consequences whatsoever, and for our governments to be less informed than the British media is an utter disgrace
BBCs Sally Magnusson knew about this before the FM of Scotland, what the hell kind of co-operation, diplomacy or democracy is this?
I really am having difficulty in containing my overwhelming desire to…Grrrrr, I can’t even write it down I’d get banned
Military intervention is never good, but there is a pretty hectic situation going on in Yemen. Pro Houthie is an interesting position to take
Re them attacking ships that are transport arms to Israel, I have not seen credible links to that, would be interesting to see them.
A few rehashes of videos on FB originally I think posted showing Somali pirates although one video shows an American warship being attacked. Who to believe?
Not so much pro Houthi as anti-colonial. I can remember when Yemen was a British colony and so can the Yemenis, not with affection.
Britain is also responsible for Palestine and the current genocide. All we had to do was demand a ceasefire in Gaza and the Houthis would not have launched their attacks on Israeli bound ships.
But no. We do not employ reason and diplomacy, just threats and bombs. I hope Sunak, Biden and Von der Leyen end up in the Hague along with Netanyahu. They had the power to prevent what is going on in Gaza and instead they gave the green light. Despicable.
Oh – and we could have insisted that umpteen UN resolutions since 1948 should have been implemented with a two state solution in Palestine. Or allow the Palestinians to control immigration to their land.
except, from what I can tell none of the ships that have been attacked have been heading to Israel
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-12-31/ty-article-magazine/23-attacks-in-2-months-all-red-sea-ships-targeted-by-the-houthis/0000018c-5df7-d6f9-afbc-5dff7a430000
I don’t understand your point here.
The point is that they are lying when they are saying they are attacking ships because they are heading to Israel.
You mean the Houthies are lying? Did you think people were believing stuff they say if so?
I understand they are just trying to disrupt shipping to pressure the international community on Gaza. Iran keeps them in weapons as it has a proxy war with Saudi in Yemen.
Anyway, the issue for us Scots is England taking us into another possibly illegal war with no consultation / checking of legalities. New Tory Labour’s bloodlust has them jumping on board, with Starmer dumping yet another pledge to side with the brexiter Tories.
No wonder Yes keeps on climbing in the polls with it going cross party now. Labour are splitting at Gretna, and it’s English Labour’s fault. 38% Yes in the latest poll amongst Lab 2019. These numbers have never been so high.
The Saudis have been bombing the houthies for donkey’s ages with nothing to show for it.
England’s government just wants to kill some brown people ahead of an election and this opportunity opened up.
Great article Paul. It is just typical that when the American government barks the Uk government trots along like a poodle. I guess Sunak is hoping that a nice wee war will help him win the General Election just as the Falklands War helped Thatcher win the 1983 election
HMG, it’s loyal Opposition and media mafia lost credibility with the public when they supported Israel embarking on this “final solution” – No matter how hard they’ve tried to change public opinion since, they only succeeded in increasing the numbers sensing disconnect whilst Levy and Hotovely polishing the turd on TV screens accelerated the anger.
Israel were losing the propaganda war over Palestinians many years ago, yet despite Westminster and Washington knowing it full well, they blithely ignored as they pressed on defending the indefensible.
The Houthi conflict is likely to send warning to others, but I fear it will only make matters worse and inflame resentment…
https://archive.is/wocUb
The SNP leader was pitching to those in Scotland who back the idea of independence, but are flirting with voting Labour to get Rishi Sunak out of Number 10.
Deluded English state broadcaster. The only people who support indy and are thinking of voting Labour are people who support indy and voted Labour in 2019 and 2021. Labour have lost some voters to the SNP / Greens since then, hence total support for unionist parties down whilst Yes to indy has crept up.
The idea of people dead set on indy (our baseline 50% worst case for indy tomorrow no questions asked) moving to unionist parties is so funny. That’s like thinking Sinn Fein voters are flirting with the DUP or similar stupidities.
No, what happens is unionists start backing indy, and when that happens, they may in time leave their normal unionist party vote behind in favour of a pro-indy party. This is normal and logical, the above is by contrast rule Britannia la la land gibberish.
2010 taught Scots that voting Lab/Lib absolutely doesn’t stop the Tories, but enables them. Not even the dead cat bounce of 2017 came close to the failed combined unionist tactical vote of 2010, and it’s been all downhill since then.
Turnout is currently projected as only 50% UK-wide. That says that English people think Britain is s**t politically, so what will Scots be thinking you thickos at Pacific Quay?
Ach don’t be so hard on Wallet-Locked-Hard, Pacifier Quay is his sole source of income…
Note his desperation to not do as the National did with their “What did the SNP say about Scottish independence at the party’s election launch?” article https://archive.ph/R1ahj, actually report on it, not for Mr Enunciation, he follows the Glenn Campbell approach of “In my opinion….” then barrow-loads of innuendo…
A quick glance at this morning’s headlines shows that the US/UK “coalition of the willing” is ready to move on to their real target – Iran. Grant Shapps issues dire warnings to Iran that his patience is running out.
“Defence Secretary orders Tehran to call off Houthi “thugs” after UK strikes on Yemen.” (Telegraph).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-the-papers-67965473
The BBC holding the British state to account would be similar to Russia’s Pravda calling out Putin for invading Ukraine.
Never going to happen.
The purpose of state broadcasters is to disseminate government propaganda and assist in controlling the plebs.
Yes continues to edge up.
Look at that progress since May, and it’s all coming from unionists party voters, mainly Labour.
Pretty much the worst pollster of all for SNP/Yes has Yes ‘tomorrow, no questions asked’ 49.5% now.
Sweet.
As you can see, that is the highest Yes R&W have ever recorded since they started polling Scotland in 2021. We are so very close to the end of the UK. Expect some surprises and things to move very fast when they do. We are in the calm before the storm, but the wind is picking up, hence Yes keeps it’s steady rise. That level of Yes in pretty much the best pollster for unionists (occasional Yougov outliers aside) should terrify British nationalists. They should feel a pit at the bottom of their stomach.
Lib 2019 = 40% Yes
Labour 2019 = 38% Yes
Con 2019 = 15% Yes
Ex DK.
These are are hitting record high levels for people who have stayed loyal to unionist parties.
It’s happening folks. Unionist are moving steadily en masse to indy. I think the UKSC case did it’s job. It broke the union.
Yep it is sure happening…….”snigger”
The link between the SNP and indy has actually gone. It’s becoming cross-party (at least in terms of voters; their elected reps will begin to follow when they start to feel the winds of change). That’s the final stage in the process. Our other party voters are now looking to an indy Scotland with true Scottish Lab / Con / Lib parties. We were never going to get everyone behind a single party, that would be a bit scary if anything! Nope, but we needed Yes to go beyond the SNP. It expanded first to Green, now it’s spreading to Lab, Lib and even Con. And they are celebrating this lol.
Time for an appropriate song methinks:
The UK has aided the Saudis in bombing the Houthis in Yemen for years ( money talks and the Saudis has a sh*t load of it ) and was rewarded with lots of lovely armaments contracts ; now Sunak sees an opportunity to wrap himself in the warmonger’s flag and stand tall ( sic ) as a statesman ( behind the armed might of the USA ) , and perhaps improve his dire electoral rating .
Plus it helps distract attention from the War Crimes being committed in Gaza by our Israeli allies ( sic ) , particularly as they are in court at The Hague justifying their non-genocidal , carefully targeted, precision bombing levelling of Gaza .
True to form , the leader of the Opposition , Sir Kid Starver , not to be outdone by the political upstart Sunak , reaches for an even bigger Union Flag to wave , just in case anyone has mistaken him for a humanitarian rather than a patriotic political opportunist who will do and say anything to become PM .
The winds of change.
Conservatively, Yes up 9% amongst Labour 2019 voters over the course of 2023 to date. Some evidence for an acceleration in the latter half of 2023, as most recent two polls show 41% Yes on average amongst Labour 2019, hence me thinking holy guacamole. Starmer being exposed as a Tory with Gaza and all the dropped pledges?
This is what is driving Yes up while SNP voters are not responding / engaging. Lab, Lib and even con 2019 and 21 voters moving to indy. No speculation needed, it’s right there in the cross-tabs.
Here we go:
Thank you Lab/Con/Lib new Yessers. Helped very worst case Yes slip over the line while Unionist parties are distracted by VI for titanic deckchairs.
Just realised that latest R&W has cross tabs for Holyrood 2021, so added that in. Something big is happening in Scotland. These are some serious increases in Yes amongst those who have stayed loyal to unionist parties.
It looks like Yes amongst Lab 2021 has as much as doubled in the past year.
And this is not people who previously backed SNP now backing Labour so pushing up ‘Labour Yes’. It is people who backed Labour in the last two elections.
Change is all the rage these days I hear, except for Starmer, Sarwar, and indeed the entire ‘british establishment’ who still believe it will all blow over ‘as it always does’… Sarah Smith, James Cook, Nick Robinson etc have grazed on that premise for years despite being caught bonny at the propaganda game, still believing ‘it’ll all blow over’…. Except it won’t this time, not even in England…
Enter Tice and his even more dimwitted concubine to pronounce what change really means, a Farage too far even for England’s hegemonic politics…
Scotland’s politics is no longer ‘just a larf’ in England, it has become a beacon of hope for democracy, and if you listen carefully beyond the noise of ‘Call Kay’, with an “E”, you’ll hear them cheering us on to make real change in Scotland.
Labour screwed themselves believing in the politics of controlling the game rather than dealing with real people, no different to the Mail, the Scum, the Torygraph, or BBC Scotland…
For real people, it never was a game, but they’ve finally had enough of playing bit parts in ‘Hunger Games’…
England’s UK of Britain supports the independence of every other country on the planet but oppose Scotland’s right to be *allowed* to even be asked the question
Imagine using their own supreme court in England to enforce a ruling that people in Scotland are not *allowed* to be asked a question by the government we vote for
England is enforcing a law that says Scotland can vote for any government we choose, but if we choose SNP the English government will strike down anything they don’t like
England’s UK of Britain is right now excited at the prospect of Taiwan’s people voting for their own independence keeping them a separate country from China
So England says being an independent country is the best thing for every other country in the world, just not Scotland, who remember was an independent country long before most of those other countries until some greedy rich Bastirts sold us into this enslavement
Scotland invented the television, now England peers down the lens of our invention to tell us we can’t do anything ourselves
Scotland gave the world Penicillin, Trains, modern Mathematics, the Electric light bulb, the Telephone, Refrigeration, MRI scanning, Animal cloning, disposable Contact lenses, the ATM, the list is almost without end to what Scotland gave the world, but like Andy Murray England twists the facts and calls them all British
England did give us Shakespeare, well imposed it upon us, because it’s boring, only takes place in England because nobody else wants it and they never refer to that as British do they? but they bang on about it endlessly
Oh and conscription to fight their wars of course
I do like the movie ZULU though, Oops! the Welsh won that one though
As you can see in graph, the effect of the UKSC case was to boost Yes. I don’t think this went away as the data suggests at face value, because the fall after the peak is associated with the drop in polling turnout projections / potential low SNP response rates. The subsequent climb after financegate / Yousaf is all coming from unionist party voters moving to yes (and warming to Yousaf), with these overrepresented in polling it seems. So that >50% Yes today is highly likely an underestimate. It’s also not support for Yes, but support for Yes in a snap referendum held tomorrow. It’s those lost to the union and the worst case for Yes. If you ask people about a future referendum some time away, Yes goes up as it ceases to be ‘snap’.
Anyway %Yes trends are all we should concern ourselves with right now as most mid-term VI polling is dung, and what we have in Scotland and UK-wide certainly is. Projected turnouts are far too low for party VI to be meaningful. We need to wait until close to the election – as little as only 2 weeks possibly – before we will see what VI is actually looking like. It is highly unlikely to look anything like what it does now, and any movement will favour con in England and SNP in Scotland as that’s who’s voters are coy right now.
The Scottish Socialist Party is commemorating the life of John Maclean.
It will take place in Townhead Village Hall, Glasgow, on Sunday, January 21 at 2pm, with Maclean’s highly regarded biographer, Henry Bell, as the guest lecturer.
Scottish Socialist Party to host major lecture on John Maclean
https://archive.is/On9mQ
Aren’t we all impressed when the Tory and Labour parties go to great lengths to insist that Scotland has two governments and how wonderfully effective that is for the people of Scotland?
Well some folk in Scotland might be impressed by that, until they learn that the English government, that’s the one they call the UK government, has refused to attend any meetings whatsoever in Scotland for over a year
Yes indeedy folks in Scotland, English UK ministers who claim to have your best interests at heart not only can’t be bothered turning up in Scotland, except to get dressed up to have meetings with their King, absolutely refuse point blank to come here at all
We all get that Tories and Labour don’t like the SNP Scottish government, that’s the one that most Scots vote for by the way, but these English UK ministers fly all over the world happy to turn up in Russia China or anywhere else to have meetings with those folks, is it the inflight meals?
So could it be they dislike Scots far more than all these other people? or could it be they just don’t give a damn about Scotland? either way what it does show is the English UK government has more respect for Russia and China and indeed everybody else in the world, but no respect whatsoever for Scots
Sir Kier Starmer still begging for votes in Scotland is he?
I think the English policy on this is *ignore them and they’ll go away* but we won’t will we, so it turns into *just ignore them altogether*
Isn’t it time Scotland ignored them right out of our country so we can get on with it?
Found some more data points and added these in from IPSOS. Ipsos get lower Labour 2019 backing indy, but still shows the same trend; almost doubled in November 23 compared to 6 months previously. Something big is happening.
I’ve put some polynomial fits on as the trends are definitely not linear, but show an acceleration in the latter part of 2023 as alluded to previously. I can’t help but feel this is Starmer being exposed through Gaza. His backing of genocide has made Labour voters look into him I suspect, and that has them seeing he’s dropping every social democratic policy he won the leadership on in favour of extreme right-wing Tory policy, including now warmongering without a legal basis. Tony is back and very far to the right now. This is supported by the mass anti-Tory / Labour protests on the streets right now. The BBC is calling these ‘Pro-Palestinian marches’ rather than the ‘anti-UK government & soon to be UK government (so we are being told)’ protests which they are in true Pravda style.
Now if loyal unionist Labour voters are moving to indy at the prospect of a ‘dead cert’ incoming Labour government, do you really think that SNP 2019/2021 voters have given up on voting and will just sit out coming elections?
That, for me, is nonsense and something is brewing. I will put my money on projected turnouts starting to rise at some point and SNP/Yes with this, albeit it these currently coy voters may do another 2011 and only start announcing their plans to pollsters 6-8 weeks before the big day. Folks remember how the SNP were supposedly on 29% with Labour on 45% in March 2011 right? And that was one of series of polls in the first quarter showing this kid of fictional Labour lead. That, as I’ve said, is where I think we are right now again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_2011_Scottish_Parliament_election
Pollsters in tight margins can be wrong. Censored and fined many times. Pollsters manipulating the result. Wasting private and public money. Wrong Brexit. Wrong Indy Ref. Etc, etc.
Cambridge Analytica. Gerrymandering. Breaking electoral rules and data protection rule. Gerrymandering. Hedge funds made £Billion betting on the result. Brexit lies cost £Billions. It will have to be put right. 70% want full EU membership. A majority want Independence.
Sir Kid Starmer is so busy rowing back on ”pledges” or ”promises” or ”principles” that he ‘ll soon meet himself on the way back !
So, Glenn Campbell has a brain tumour.
WARNING: Contains disturbing imagery.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-67925522
Looks like he was well cared for and also diagnosed and operated on in good time – the article suggests it was the NHS – surely it must have been private, otherwise why would the BBC allow a positive health story. May not agree with his reporting antics but am pleased for him and his family he has had a good outcome.
Labour aren’t going to win the election in England, the Tories might lose it though
There’s a difference
Aye, and in the media it will be about the “swing”…
I’ve never known a time when the Labour party was THIS unpopular with their core vote, even party members were talking about the risks of the vote staying at home.
England’s political hegemony has really hit home this time around, and the irony is that despite all the bad press in England over SNP, they’re eyeing Scotland’s choices with envy…
Might this be why Labour lose it
Tories and ( now ) Labour only support ”HARD working people ”.
Who supports Tory MPs and Labour MPs then ?
This is with brexit driving up UK unemployment while it falls in Europe, hitting historical lows in the latter. The brexit boom is across the channel and the Irish sea.
Ah but at the same time ill-health due to Covid/Long Covid is taking about 2 million out of the labour market which I think just about balances the loss of jobs due to economic downturn/Brexit. You might almost think it had been planned. Herd immunity, no mitigations, back to ‘normal’ anyone?
According to the parasite journalist class Labour are going to win 24 seats in Scotland, well if they can be of any help to them doing that
We know the Tories in Scotland will vote Labour because their own party is busted here so they have to vote for one of the English dictator parties, but I really don’t see the rest of Scotland chucking away votes on a return of the brown envelope party, even though all the financial irregularities of Labour councils are not being reported by the media in their efforts to help Labour people find out eventually, let’s hope they see the light before this debacle kicks off
Remember any vote not for the SNP will be counted as a vote against Scottish independence, don’t let them do it to us, you know they will
Former Alex Salmond strategist Stephen Noone is at it again with his *forget about independence and let’s make Alex Salmond a Lord* garbage, and the National newspaper prints this rubbish as usual from a, let’s get it right now *former* strategist
No wonder 2014 was lost with this guy and Salmond tanking it
Is this the truth leaking out now?
What was it Humza Yousaf said again? “That’s why he’s a *former* strategist”