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As Sir Keir visits Scotland to embarrass Branch Manager Sarwar with some crumbs from the table, support for the UK Labour Party in Scotland continues to tumble. It has halved from 36% to 18% in just 8 months. The SNP vote is creeping back up. These figures are from Opinium 3-poll averages.

submitted 12 hours ago • 2 comments

Anyone know of a decent source of German election results coverage on here? #GermanElection

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Upon this response, JK burst into a million shards and a great wind scattered her unhappy soul beneath the arc of a newly formed rainbow.

submitted 1 day ago • 2098 comments

We are living in the new Dark Ages, but instead of keeping a light on for humanity, decency, and compassion, Starmer, Sarwar and the Labour party are vying with the Tories to help Nigel Farage snuff out the remaining candles.

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“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.

submitted 2 days ago • 584 comments

This thread highlights why it's important to look at the detail of polls rather than taking them at face value. Polls can be manipulated in multiple ways.

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DOGE is a lawless organisation operating with total disregard for the people it impacts. With no transparency or accountability it strips away the public services that millions rely on, from health and education to aviation safety. That Labour want to bring this to Scotland is deeply alarming.

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I will use every tool at my disposal to protect this country from Trump. I will litigate to defend voting rights until there are no cases left to bring. I will speak out against authoritarianism until my last breath. I will not back down. I will not bow or scrape. I will never obey.

submitted 3 days ago • 682 comments

Kilmarnock North (East Ayrshire) by-election, first preferences: SNP: 748 (35.8%, -11.8) Labour: 582 (27.8%, -0.1) Ind Grant: 277 (13.2%, +5.1) Reform UK: 212 (10.1%, new) Conservative: 159 (7.6%, -6.2) Green: 75 (3.6%, new) Lib Dem: 37 (1.8%, new) Ind McNamara: 2 (0.1%, new) SNP elected stage 8.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

I've now looked at the polling data from that recent #Norstat poll which showed a slender Yes lead. As usual, the published figures hide some strange sampling anomalies. I've done my usual reweighting based on current demographics, which shows a Yes lead of 5pts (6 without DK) Short thread 1/5

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You wouldn't have thought that the Labour party in Scotland could find any more sections of the public to betray, but here we are. www.thenational.scot/news/2494526...

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🧵 When I said my government would leave no stone unturned to find the solutions to secure Grangemouth’s future, I meant it. I’ve just set out some measures to Parliament seeking to protect workers and secure Grangemouth’s future. Here’s a thread 👇 1/8

submitted 5 days ago • 12 comments

So anyone who books accommodation via AirBnB is funding the owner who apparently is joining Elon Musk`s work in DOGE for Trump`s presidency. Spread the word.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Life in Scotland is significantly better than life in England. Not perfect, plenty still to strive for, but significantly better.

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The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

submitted 8 days ago • 942 comments

Latest Norstat #Indyref2 poll for the Sunday Times has: Yes - 51% No - 49% Fieldwork 11th to 14th February

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Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

submitted 9 days ago • 2698 comments

ALAN CUMMING ‘How much derision and betrayal do we need to feel before we demand respect and the right to make all of our own decisions in Scotland? It blows my mind.’ #YouYesYet

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Do you remember where you were when the Labour Party became indistinguishable from UKIP?

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

Fiona Bruce, "Will Labour increase safe and legal routes for asylum seekers?" Jacqui Smith talks about the criminal gangs Fiona Bruce, "In terms of increasing safe and legal routes?" Jacqui Smith, "Most people go to neighbouring countries"

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Sarwar & Starmer's nuclear love-in. What's it all about? Scotland going for new nuclear is like geothermal/hydro-powered Iceland going for gas. It makes no sense at all. Our destiny is to develop clean green baseload energy like tidal for ourselves & the world www.thenational.scot/politics/249...

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You don't beat racists by joining them. 🥀Labour is selling out to Reform. 🟢Scottish Greens won't.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

In a nutshell why UK Labour vote is crashing and Reform UK vote burgeoning.

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The UK's declined to sign the new international declaration on inclusive & sustainable AI, This is Starmer seeking to ingratiate himself with Trump & Musk. Making friends with bullies never pays. This won't.

submitted 12 days ago • 25 comments

Another @yougov.co.uk poll out today. It confirms recent trends of continued RUK growth and a slight increase for both SNP and LibDems. UK Labour woes continue - now tied for second with RUK. Tories drop behind LibDems into 5th.

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Two pollsters have changed their weighting methodology in recent months. Opinium inexplicably introduced 2014 #Indyref weighting (more than 10 years on) for a Murdoch-funded paper. Survation 'forgot' to add 2014 weighting in their most recent poll (they've also forgotten to publish the result).

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NEW: The Labour Government has been accused of 'standing in the way' of international law after a former Foreign Office official made a series of bombshell allegations about behind-the-scenes manipulation around weapons exports to Israel www.thenational.scot/news/2492392...

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