(No, that’s not a reference to David McLetchie, who was by all accounts a very decent chap and a sad loss to the world of Scottish politics, whatever your persuasion.)
We’ve made a couple of slight changes to this front cover from tomorrow’s Scotsman. Amazingly, neither of them is the headline story. That one, hilariously, is all real.
Simon Jenkins in the Guardian, 12 August 2013:
It is hard to see the British Labour party as a leftwing party at all.”
There’s one last bit of data from our poll that we haven’t revealed the results of yet. That’s because, unlike the rest of the survey, this one absolutely WAS a leading question. We asked it partly to satirise the ridiculously slanted nature of those used in some “Better Together” polls, such as this one, but also to make a more serious point.
If you’re looking forward to Wednesday’s game at Wembley, this one’s for you.
The Scottish media has adopted a uniform silence over the results of last week’s Panelbase poll. We can simply accept that, or we can stand up and challenge it.
The BBC is funded by a compulsory tax, enforced by law. You pay for it to serve you. If you think it’s been abdicating its duty, why not ring BBC Radio Scotland’s phone-in show “Call Kaye” (presented by stand-in Louise Smith) this morning from 8.50am – lines actually open at 8am – and let them know how you feel about it?
By phone: 0500 92 95 00
By text: 80295
By email: callkaye@bbc.co.uk
Please be polite. If you call but don’t get on, or your text or email isn’t used, please tell us in the comments section below. (In the case of text or email, include a copy.)
The crowdfunded opinion poll this site commissioned from Panelbase last week was a wide-ranging one which covered numerous aspects of the independence debate in some depth. We had to break up our reporting into several pieces to keep it a manageable read. Here, however, is a quick summary of the top ten major findings.
The full data tables can be downloaded directly from Panelbase via this link.
When we commissioned our poll, we were about 50/50 in terms of whether the mainstream media would cover it. When the results came in, we cautiously shifted to 60/40 in favour. No matter how piqued the press was about this site’s scrutiny of it for the last year and a half, we reasoned, these results were dynamite and surely couldn’t be ignored by any journalist with a shred of conscience or dignity.
Who would have thought that we, of all people, could be guilty of so over-estimating the integrity and professionalism of Scotland’s newspapers and broadcasters?
A series of super-short snippets from our splendid survey.
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VOTERS WHO EXPRESS ANY OPINION ON MEDIA BIAS
Men: 60%
Women: 37%
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A series of super-short snippets from our splendid survey.
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VOTERS WHO HAVE HEARD OF THE WEBSITE “LABOUR HAME”
SNP: 6%
Conservative: 4%
Labour: 4%
Lib Dem: 2%
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HAVE HEARD OF THE WEBSITE “LABOUR FOR INDEPENDENCE”
Labour: 12%
SNP: 12%
Conservative: 10%
Lib Dem: 6%
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A series of super-short snippets from our splendid survey.
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VOTERS WHO THINK ALISTAIR DARLING ALWAYS TELLS THE TRUTH
Lib Dems: 9%
Conservatives: 6%
Labour: 4%
SNP: <1%
Age 45-54: <1%
Age 55-64: 1%
Age 65+: 8%
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A series of super-short snippets from our splendid survey.
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VOTERS MOST AFRAID OF TERRORIST ATTACKS
Conservative: 55%
Lib Dem: 42%
Labour: 32%
SNP: 26%
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VOTERS MOST AFRAID OF SPACE MONSTERS
Conservative: 6%
Labour: 5%
SNP: 4%
Lib Dem: <1%
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A series of super-short snippets from our splendid survey.
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UNDECIDED WHICH WAY THEY’LL VOTE IN THE REFERENDUM
Men: 22%
Women: 38%
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Wings Over Scotland is a thing that exists.
