The Daily Record’s politics lead story today is a slightly underwhelming poll that shows 41% of Scots believe the Tories are carrying out a power grab against the Scottish Parliament, against 34% who think they aren’t (and 25% who have no idea).
Which seems a good time to round up the last results of our own most recent poll, and some slightly disturbing revelations about the Scottish public’s grasp of devolution.
Especially your later stuff. You are the obvious natural successor to those other great leaders, Richard Nixon and George W. Bush – the perfect combination of dodgy and thick. You’ve got it all.
Since the first day of your tangeroid slithering into Barack’s old gaff, you’ve gone from strength to strength. I thought building a thousand mile wall to stop people escaping would be your greatest triumph. But putting kids in cages? Genius.
Most of Scottish Twitter has been enjoying itself greatly for the last few hours after England’s exit from the World Cup, but scattered in amongst the amusing memes has been a fair amount of angst about victors Croatia – a nation of 4 million people – being in the final when Scotland once again failed to qualify.
And while we’ll more than happily listen to any amount of criticism of the unbelievably incompetent, hapless clowns who’ve been in charge of the SFA/SPL/SPFL for the last several decades, that judgement is a bit harsh on the players and coaches and the nation as a whole. Because there really hasn’t been much in it.
Scotland’s qualification for World Cup 2018 hinged and ultimately faltered on a split second and a single badly-chosen pass in stoppage time.
In the light of David Davis’ resignation last night and the continuing shambolic chaos that is UK politics, it seemed a pertinent time for these findings from our latest poll.
Alert readers may recall that a few weeks ago we revealed how an independent Scotland could reduce its budget deficit by billions of pounds a year – by renting out the Faslane naval base to the rest of the UK to keep their nuclear weapons in.
Voters in England, we learned, were more than happy to pay Scotland £5bn annually – and perhaps even more – for a Trident submarine park during the decades that it would take to build a replacement base south of the border.
Of course, that plan is only any good if the people of Scotland would accept it too.
From time to time in our Panelbase polls we like to test Scotland’s opinion of its media, since that’s the main focus of our website, and our newest poll was one such time. It found that Scotland’s preferred broadcaster for political coverage was… Channel 4.
The station scored a net +23 rating with respondents, higher than STV (+19), with BBC Scotland trailing in last but still on +16 overall.
The BBC was the only one which had a notable difference in perception between Yes and No voters. C4 got +25 from Nos and a very similar +21 from Yessers, STV was closer still at +20 vs +19, but the BBC had a sizeable gap: just +6 from independence supporters (which is still startlingly high), but a thumping +23 from Unionists.
All broadcasters in Scotland are required by Ofcom rules to be neutral and balanced. We suppose that two out of three more or less managing it isn’t bad.
Alf Baird on No Money Back, No Guarantee: “GDP-PER-CAPITA BY COUNTRY, 2021/22 Norway – $106,149 Ireland – $104,039 Switzerland – $92,101 Denmark – $60,345 Scotland – $40,325 The…” May 27, 19:13
Tommo on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Those who ask the former FM to ‘come clean’ are whistling into the wind I know nothing of Scots law…” May 27, 19:07
Izzie on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “It doesnt seem to be r esonating with the folk I speak to People seem to think that it is…” May 27, 19:06
Izzie on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “It doesnt seem to be r esonating with the folk I speak to People seem to think that it is…” May 27, 19:05
robertkknight on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “D’Izzie… Let me use a word you might understand… “Scunnered”. Over 400,000 people are so scunnered by Sturgeon, Murrell and…” May 27, 18:32
twathater on No Money Back, No Guarantee: “And as if by magic Northcode just to confirm the degeneration of the auld empire that you so eloquently expressed…” May 27, 18:12
Tenruh on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “You’ve got to wonder did he already know from the outset that there never was going to be a referendum?…” May 27, 18:08
Strathglass on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “One begins to wonder if the principal reason Murrell and others were so frightened of Alex Salmond returning to frontline…” May 27, 18:02
Mike on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “It’s a sad reflection on the state of Scotland that Sturgeon has been allowed to walk Scot free in all…” May 27, 17:44
Mark Beggan on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Amelda Murrell will probably be running a sweepstake with the inmates tobacco rations.” May 27, 17:42
agentx on All The Dirt From My Eyes: ““The Presiding Officer (Kenneth Gibson) The next item of business is an urgent question in relation to Peter Murrell. As…” May 27, 17:39
Young Lochinvar on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Bet sneaky Pete is finding consolation in jail listening to Jimmy Nails song “Ain’t no doubt”. Probably sings along to…” May 27, 17:26
Nemisis Benn on No Money Back, No Guarantee: “It is a given (by admission, not proof or evidence) that Murrell stole significant sums from the SNP for over…” May 27, 17:16
James Jones on No Money Back, No Guarantee: “It’s sad to see some people here trying to blame the Union for this. The reason the rest of the…” May 27, 17:14
Iain Ross on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “If I were the head of a political party, like JS is, and had been made aware that £c660,000 of…” May 27, 17:13
Geri on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Good grief! I’ve never been arrested but surely tae fck the police don’t let suspects go home & they can…” May 27, 17:13
Aidan on No Money Back, No Guarantee: “You’re lying again, the GDP per capita in Scotland is around 75% of Denmark, not 50%. Scotland is overall a…” May 27, 17:05
TURABDIN on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “PETTY & not so petty crime in the piss pot of contemprary politics. When democracy goes wrong the answer is.…” May 27, 16:51
diabloandco on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Did you have to? I have a revolting image now stuck in my head , putting me off my tea!” May 27, 16:46
Alf Baird on No Money Back, No Guarantee: ““it is about 20% higher in Sweden” GDP per cap in Denmark, which has a similar population to Scotland, was…” May 27, 16:40
MaryB on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Izzie, as an independence supporter, I don’t now see how trying to sweep this, and the Alex Salmond issues, under…” May 27, 16:40
Wally Jumblatt on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest to find that whoever wrote SNP’s articles of Association / Constitution / whatever, that…” May 27, 16:35
agentx on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “There are calls for an inquiry. “John Swinney has resisted calls for an investigation, saying the matter is being handled…” May 27, 16:34
Captain Caveman on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Some wag described it as “Mein Kampfervan” the other day, which did raise a smile 😀” May 27, 16:16
agentx on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Will Murrell turn up to the sentencing hearing dressed in tight pink leggings, claim he is trans and end up…” May 27, 16:12
Rev. Stuart Campbell on All The Dirt From My Eyes: ““This Practice Note outlines the Scottish procedure for obtaining a civil recovery order in the Court of Session under Chapter…” May 27, 16:07
agentx on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “When you are arrested in Scotland, a police officer must inform you of your rights under the Criminal Justice (Scotland)…” May 27, 16:07
agentx on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “Police Scotland’s Standard Operating Procedure governing the arrest process as the following: “I am arresting you under Section 1 of…” May 27, 16:05
Izzie on All The Dirt From My Eyes: “I cant see the point of all this. We all want Scottish Independence. Murrel is vonvicted Sturgeon is history we…” May 27, 16:04
agentx on No Money Back, No Guarantee: ““JOHN Swinney will request a Section 30 order from the Prime Minister when they meet in “the next few weeks”…” May 27, 15:46
