Archive for May, 2015
We’ve lost track again 318
So cutting Corporation Tax is back to being a good left-wing thing, yes?
McTernan Predicts (slight return) 279
The outsider 329
Note: we haven’t mocked this up.
But jings, readers, it’s hardly any dafter than most of the others.
Covering all bases 229
For your licence fee this afternoon.
A new guess every 30 seconds. Keep tuning in!
Talking points 332
We’re still on semi-holiday and the sun’s out, so rather than do any actual work by analysing and commenting on the last few questions we asked people in our most recent poll, we thought we’d just stick the tables up, let you have a nose through them and discuss them amongst yourselves. Click the image to enlarge.
Falling out with Auntie 406
Many pundits are of the opinion that the new Tory Max government will be actively hostile to the BBC, which the party has long believed is an expensive public-sector hotbed of right-on lefties. So when we did our latest poll, it seemed worth finding out how much the people of Scotland valued the state broadcaster.
There were, let’s say, some interesting quirks.
Moodievision: The Fall And Fall… 150
…Of Ed Miliband.
The lockout 511
There was an interesting line in The National yesterday:
“The monthly Scottish Questions in Parliament looks set to be an odd affair.
In other words, business as usual.
How the north was lost 557
The reasons for Scottish Labour’s obliteration at the hands of the electorate last week are manifold, and most of them were very thoroughly explored in the weekend’s press, for example by Kevin McKenna here and here.
But as is our wont here on Wings, we wanted something a little more empirical to get our teeth into, so a few days before the election we commissioned a poll of 1,013 Scottish voters from Panelbase covering some of the subjects the regional office had campaigned on under its branch manager Jim Murphy.
The results were fascinating.