A new YouGov poll of Scottish voters was released today. It had no voting-intention figures, and concerned itself mostly with people’s assessment of the main Scottish and UK party leaders. The Labour-voters column was interesting to say the least.
That’s rather a lot of love for a Tory PM from people who voted Labour at the last UK election just over a year ago – more of Scottish Labour’s remaining voters found Theresa May likeable than dislikeable. But then things got even weirder.
If there haven’t been as many posts on this site as people might expect at a time of such incredible political turmoil, it’s because Wings isn’t at heart a commentary blog. We don’t do a lot of flat-out opinion pieces, tending to concern ourselves more with measurable, empirical facts, and since nobody knows anything about anything at the moment, we haven’t had all that much useful to say.
But the closest thing there is right now to a certainty is that sometime quite soon, Unionist politicians in Scotland are going to have to grow up and deal with this:
And their problem is that there’s no possible way to.
So the official Westminster line is that Scotland will HAVE to become independent if it wants to remain in the EU. We’re sure the FM will be absolutely gutted to hear that.
Earlier today we were moved to tweet our scepticism regarding a claim made by the Scottish Labour branch manager Kezia Dugdale, as reported in the Guardian.
Even on the most casual glance, the numbers just didn’t seem to add up. If 62% of Scots voted to stay in the EU and 55% voted to stay in the UK, with no correlation between the two things, then the Venn-diagram intersection between those two groups seems pretty unlikely to add up to more than 50%, let alone a “vast” majority.
We’re not naturally disposed to sympathy for Tories, but it must be hellish being poor Ruth Davidson at the moment. The poor woman doesn’t know which way she’s facing from one minute to the next. Here she is less than a year ago:
Angela Eagle isn’t happy in the Labour Party and the Tories need a new leader. STV News Edinburgh may have jumped the gun slightly this evening, but this alternative career path makes a lot of sense.
Bilbo on Pandora’s Campervan: “More important than all of this. PayPal Kavanagh is off sick again. Dig deep and click on that donate button…” Jun 2, 17:38
agentx on Pandora’s Campervan: “He told reporters that there had been a “colossal breach of trust”. Swinney said that while the party’s systems were…” Jun 2, 17:16
Tenruh on Pandora’s Campervan: “Heard today that Murrell and Swinney have been friends since childhood,any truth in that?” Jun 2, 17:08
AdamH on Pandora’s Campervan: “That Tommy Sheppard article He (now) knows exactly what went wrong yet seems to have no recognition of being 1…” Jun 2, 16:48
Anne on Pandora’s Campervan: “Is it not more likely that this excess of pointless bling purchasing and overspend on office refurbishment is a way…” Jun 2, 16:34
Ebok on Pandora’s Campervan: “It’s difficult to put into words the appreciation for, and admiration of, the sheer volume and depth of work being…” Jun 2, 16:16
agentx on Pandora’s Campervan: “Why embezzle a camper van and never use it?” Jun 2, 15:34
Ian on Pandora’s Campervan: “Incidentally, when those figures for ‘audio visual’ came out, I remember trying to compile a realistic invoice for a conference…” Jun 2, 15:30
agentx on Pandora’s Campervan: “Murrell was CEO of SNP from 2001. Murrell married Sturgeon in July 2010 The offences started 12 August 2010. ———————————————–…” Jun 2, 15:25
Alf Baird on Pandora’s Campervan: ““The Brits are past masters in dirty trickery, subversion, great gaming” Indeed, and especially so in the ‘strategic’ colonies where…” Jun 2, 15:25
Ian on Pandora’s Campervan: “Given that the motor home was never used, and stuffed full of ‘luxury’ goods, you can’t help thinking that Murrell…” Jun 2, 15:23
100%Yes on Pandora’s Campervan: “What ever surplus money the SNP got he or them just spent it on what ever they wanted, wither it…” Jun 2, 14:53
Cynicus on Pandora’s Campervan: ““Begs the question, why did the Crown feel they had to agree to a deal? Could they not have proved…” Jun 2, 14:44
100%Yes on Pandora’s Campervan: “Sturgeon forced to answer for herself on national TV, with crocodile tears, only to turn round and say what have…” Jun 2, 14:37
Rogueslr on Pandora’s Campervan: “With only 4 miles on the camper van it should make a good price at auction. But, I am left…” Jun 2, 14:34
BigJay on Pandora’s Campervan: “There was an interesting article in the Sunday Times, part of which outlined the Swinney/Murrell connection from their schooldays, church…” Jun 2, 14:23
agentx on Pandora’s Campervan: “PUBLIC FUNDS £8,143,658.37 in Short Money from the House of Commons £2,437,821.47 in policy development grants from the Electoral Commission…” Jun 2, 14:21
Iain Ross on The View From Row Z: “The van should be shown in the Balance Sheet at cost price (ex VAT) less accumulated depreciation. Not sure what…” Jun 2, 14:19
Andy Wiltshire on Pandora’s Campervan: “Exactly! Come on Wingers, there must be a lawyer here who can address this vital point.” Jun 2, 14:13
RobertG on Pandora’s Campervan: “I also wonder if the deliberate own goal decision to go to the Supreme Court over indyref2 was part of…” Jun 2, 14:12
Rocky on Pandora’s Campervan: “Who were the Sloggi knickers for?” Jun 2, 14:09
Jim Anderson on Pandora’s Campervan: “Getting interesting as the extent and timing of the control failures by Beattie and Sturgeon that favoured Murrell’s criminality are…” Jun 2, 14:05
barelybare on Pandora’s Campervan: ““I’ve been through the 107 pages of items bought by Peter Murrell” Keep in mind that BBC list excludes all…” Jun 2, 13:59
Al-Stuart on Pandora’s Campervan: “. Hi Stuart. Thanks for your excellent Pandora’s Box article. I’ve been through the 107 pages of items bought by…” Jun 2, 13:49
LES HALLES on Pandora’s Campervan: “Out of all this, one thing everyone should be thankful for are your unrelenting efforts to shine a light into…” Jun 2, 13:48
TURABDIN on Pandora’s Campervan: “It is of course not beyond reason to suspect the entire SNP «staff» of being British intelligence spooks, both knowing…” Jun 2, 13:36
100%Yes on Pandora’s Campervan: “Its should be no public inquiry then return the money that was donated to the SNP. Is it possible to…” Jun 2, 13:26
100%Yes on Pandora’s Campervan: “Jester or just a complete and utter idiot Colin Beattie with 1mb of ram for brain power. Who says one…” Jun 2, 13:20
