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Humiliation for BBC Scotland as its own poll shows a Yes majority BBC Scotland has done one of its pre-election polls to tell us what Scotland “really thinks” as we go into the Scottish election in nine weeks time. On Tuesday, BBC Scotland unveiled it…

I wasn't going to blog again today but some stories can't be missed - BBC Scotland has been humiliated as its own polling shows a lead for independence, a Yes majority when don't knows are removed. Pacific Quay is in full on damage limitation mode.

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BBC Scotland can't bring itself to say support for indy is greater than opposition to it, though its own poll puts yes on 47% and no on 44%, 51.6% Yes with don't knows removed. Ever since yes started to lead consistently in polls the line from the BBC has been Scotland is divided on independence.

Reform’s election denial is a cancer on democracy Nigel Farage is not taking the electoral humiliation dished out to by the voters of Gorton and Denton at all well. Farage lied multiple times at his press conference on the Monday after the vote wh…

My latest blog piece. Farage and his allies have a long history of making baseless allegations of fraud in elections they have lost. It's straight out the Trumpian playbook and is a cancer on democracy.

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Starmer’s support for Trump’s Epstein war may be the final blow to Labour in Scotland America has gone to war in the Middle East at the behest of Netanyahu again, when Trump attacked Iran in June last year and assured us that Iran’s nuclear weapons programme had been completel…

My latest blog piece, Starmer's support for Trump's illegal war in Iran may be the final blow that finishes off Labour's already struggling Scottish branch office.

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Funny how politicians who are most keen on whining about immigration and refugees and asylum seekers are also very keen on starting the wars that create refugees and asylum seekers.

If Anas Sarwar has been told not to commentate on UK politics, how exactly does he expect us to believe he'll function as a First Minister? Westminster will make some awful policy decision and the FM will go - "I'm not allowed to talk about that."

Several of the people in that photo are members of the press, who literally had to be paid to be there.

Labour's Scottish election campaign conference. A few dozen people in a mostly empty auditorium.

A picture paints a thousand words, Labour's Scottish campaign conference is a picture of a demoralised and defeated party. Hold your nose and vote Labour is not the winning slogan Anas Sarwar hopes it is. It's the last desperate plea from a dying party. Westminster rule in Scotland dies with Labour.

Starmer is not taking the defeat in Gorton & Denton at all well. In brief, it's not Labour's fault that it lost badly, it's all the fault of the beastly Greens for being endorsed by George Galloway. This does not bode well for the Labour party in the months ahead.

The schadenfruede is strong today about Matt Goodwin losing heavily to the Greens in Gorton & Denton. I can't imagine the levels of twattishness it takes to spend months punching down on British Muslims and then being upset that they didn't vote for you.

Goodwin – Bad Loser, lessons from Gorton & Denton for Scotland Imagine being called Goodwin but being such a bad loser. This week’s by-election in Gorton and Denton in Manchester was initially portrayed in the British media as being a contest between Lab…

Goodwin - Bad Loser, lessons from the Gorton & Denton by-election for Scotland and UK politics as a whole. As we learned from Caerffili, the rise of Reform is not inevitable, Reform can be defeated by progressive pro Scottish & Welsh indy parties.

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That's even better news for indy polling then

57% support for independence in the most recent poll There has been another poll on voting intention in a Scottish independence referendum. The poll from Stonehaven polling for The Times newspaper which I reported on yesterday also included a questio…

My latest blog post. With the recent mega poll putting support for independence on 57%, crossing the psychologically important 60% threshold of support for independence is within our grasp.

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Second poll in a month puts the SNP on track for a majority in Holyrood In this bin-fire of a UK it’s nice to be able to report a glimmer of hope for a change. For the second time within a month, an opinion poll has put the level of support for the SNP at …

My latest blog piece, the second poll within a month puts the SNP on track to win a majority in its own right in Holyrood in May, with the added bonus that Jackie Baillie loses her seat.

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Yes, a lot of countries don't allow dual citizenship. Luckily my husband's country (USA) does so he's able to get dual citizenship. He has to go back to America for his work occasionally so if he'd had to give up his US citizenship it wouldn't have been an option for us.

It did thanks, his citizenship ceremony is next week. At least he'll now get Scottish citizenship when we become independent.

That's hardly surprising given the shameful state of the media in Scotland. They'd rather see Scotland fall into the clutches of English nationalist fascists than become independent.

We just coughed up £3700 in Home Office and lawyer fees to get my husband British citizenship. It was not easy to scrape the money together but we couldn't risk not doing it.

Reform's plan to expand stop and search will mean racial profiling and Black & minority ethnic people being detained until they can prove their British citizenship. The claim that only law breaking "illegal migrants" will be targeted is as likely as Farage appearing in Clacton.

Cruelty built on lies, Reform’s immigration plans On Monday Reform UK’s home affairs spokes bigot the millionaire Zia Yusuf announced his party’s plans for the immigration system should we be unfortunate enough to see Reform UK take po…

Cruelty built on lies, Reform UK's dystopian immigration plans bring misery and uncertainty to hundreds of thousands of hard working law-abiding people who have built lives in the UK only to find the goalposts are being shifted.

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Photo of Nigel Farage beside the text : Would you buy a used Tory from this man?

Accurate Reform UK advertising

Rejoining the EU looks set to get much easier for an independent Scotland According to former SNP MP and MEP Alyn Smith, who is well informed about developments within the EU, joining the EU looks set to become a whole lot easier for an independent Scotland. The EU Commi…

The EU is poised to adopt new measures to speed up and simplify the accession process for candidate member states to become part of the EU. This would also make the accession process to the EU much faster and easier for an independent Scotland.

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I reported it to the police but as it was only a few months after my stroke I told them not to proceed with the complaint as I didn't have the strength or stamina to deal with it.

After I refused to endorse Alba when it was launched in 2021, one of their members sent me these texts.

"Why don't you fuck off to America with your pervert squeeze and die of Aids" and " I wish it was you who had died instead of your dog."

So forgive me for not being upset about Alba's collapse.

Andrew was second in line to the throne right up until Charles and Diana had their first son. If Charles had died before having a child, Andrew would be king now. That's the insanity of having a hereditary head of state.

My impression is that Alba members seem to hate the Scottish Greens even more than they hate the SNP.

Kenny MacAskill announces that the party is over for Alba So much for my afternoon off. Literally seconds after publishing my last blog piece I learned that the Alba party’s leader Kenny MacAskill had issued a statement in an email to Alba party mem…

A quick post on today's developments concerning the Alba party's decision not to stand in May's Holyrood election

Kenny MacAskill announces that the party is over for Alba

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Kenny MacAskill announces that the party is over for Alba So much for my afternoon off. Literally seconds after publishing my last blog piece I learned that the Alba party’s leader Kenny MacAskill had issued a statement in an email to Alba party mem…

A quick post on today's developments concerning the Alba party's decision not to stand in May's Holyrood election

Kenny MacAskill announces that the party is over for Alba

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Literally seconds after publishing my latest blog piece I learned that Alba will not be contesting May's Holyrood election. It seems the party is over for Alba. Hopefully this will help to prevent the splitting of the pro-independence vote.

New polling and Reform may have peaked I’ve been blogging a lot this week, which is what happens when there’s nothing on the telly except the Winter Olympics. All power to those who enjoy that sort of thing, but watching peo…

My latest blog piece, new polling on independence and voting intention in May's Holyrood election. Plus, Reform UK may have peaked.

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