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Opinion polls suggest that Scotland could be a crucial electoral battleground at the next UK general election - which would be somewhat unusual in historical terms. Scottish Labour leader Michael Marra's sham plea for Britain to rejoin the EU, which he was undoubtedly instructed to do by the London party leadership, has to be seen in that context. However, the fact that there is no substance behin...

I've heard that our resident unionist troll KC is running a competition to find the most compelling answer to the question: "What are the benefits of Scotland becoming an independent country?" KC, please consider this video to be my entry to the competition. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like these videos, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: http...

Of all people, it's the controversial journalist David Leask - "Mr Controversy" himself - who has decided to tackle the controversy over Scottish independence polling methodology for The Times. But the article raises more questions than it answers, not least because YouGov seems to have refused to give Leask any details about its methodology. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scot...

As promised, here is a quick update on how I fared in the SNP's internal elections last month. Basically I've been elected to one of the four committees that I stood for, namely the Conduct Appeals Committee. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP

Panic over, chaps: the "Reverend" Stew Campbell says that Tucker Carlson will definitely be proved wrong about Donald Trump's possible plans to use a nuclear weapon against Iran at Benjamin Netanyahu's instigation. Just one snag, though: the "Reverend" Stew Campbell also assured us that Humza Yousaf would definitely lose the 2023 SNP leadership election, that pro-independence parties had no chance...

Smarting after two years of a polling average showing a clear majority in favour of Scottish independence, the Daily Express claim they have a poll showing that 51% of Scots want to remain in the UK. But closer inspection reveals one or two small snags with this "poll". The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouT...

The SETTLED WILL KLAXON is having ELEVENSES because, yes, we're now up to eleven Norstat polls in succession putting Yes in the lead on the Scottish independence question. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel contin...

The BBC have chronically underfunded Scottish-made content for decades. So when cuts have to be made and priorities have to be selected, where do the BBC decide the flab is? Whereabout in Britain do they think they've just been far too generous in the past and that it's only fair that people will have to put up with an even poorer service? Why, Scotland of course! It's just been announced that the...

There have now been TWO Survation polls in the space of just a few days showing that Scotland wants to be an independent country - and in the second one the Yes majority is even bigger. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel...

At this week's SNP internal elections, taking place as part of the party conference in Aberdeen, I will be standing for re-election to the Policy Development Committee, and also for election to the National Executive Committee, the Conferences Committee and the Conduct Appeals Committee. My pitch is simple: I believe we have a duty of honour to the people who took us literally when we solemnly pro...

Some thoughts on the deeply disturbing BBC radio interview in which Nick Robinson demanded that Green leader Zack Polanski agree that Israelis have a right to a safe homeland, and Polanski answered in the affirmative - but Robinson didn't recognise it as an answer because he seemed to be starting from the preconception that an Israeli homeland only counts as 'real' if Israel gets to expel Palestin...

Andrew Bowie's announcement that a UK Tory government would impose new nuclear power stations in Scotland means that the Tories will be stripping planning powers from the Scottish Parliament, which have been devolved since right from the start in 2014. This constitutes a clear repudiation of The Vow, which promised that the Scottish Parliament was "permanent" and would be granted "extensive new po...

Just when you thought it was safe to take a nice day out in the Southern Uplands, or the Lake District, or the Yorkshire Dales, our old pal Rory Stewart has made the whole thing seem a lot more scary once again by lumping all these places together and rebranding them as a Game Of Thrones-style fantasy medieval kingdom called "The Middleland". It's a wheeze he first dreamt up in the run-up to the 2...

It's official: Andy Burnham has introduced a new time zone in Scotland. Or presumably he must have done, because how else can we explain that he thinks the 2014 independence referendum was basically last week and can't possibly be revisited, but that it's totes cool to consider overturning the UK-wide EU referendum result of 2016, because that was TEN YEARS AGO and that's SUCH a long time? How muc...

In what must be one of the most despicable stunts in any party leader's conference speech, Andy Burnham today attempted to use the recent loss of his father to guilt-trip the people of Scotland into thinking they had to just accept him trampling all over their democratic rights to choose their own country's future. I don't think he'll get away with it, and in this video I explain why. The home of...

Whatever anyone may think of Robin McAlpine's views, he is usually a master of fact and of detail. So it is something of a jolt to see him make two massive howlers about SNP independence strategy in his most recent piece. Is it really possible that he could be so poorly informed about something as fundamental as this? Or are we being gaslighted? The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://s...

The first YouGov MRP mega-poll of the Burnham era is a massive wake-up call for Labour, because in spite of the ground they have recovered from Reform UK, they are still nowhere near to being on course for an overall majority at the next UK general election. If the YouGov figures are exactly right, the SNP would hold the balance of power, potentially giving them a golden opportunity to finally bre...

When Andy Burnham famously said a couple of weeks ago that Scotland could have an independence referendum if it wanted one, but that he conveniently wasn't "aware" that any such public support existed, he almost seemed to be daring pro-independence outlets to call his bluff by commissioning an opinion poll testing whether there was majority support for a referendum. That has now happened in a Nors...

Last week, after it became clear that the hopes of restoring the ferry from Rosyth to the continent had been scuppered, I casually tweeted the view that there should be a ferry from Scotland even if it had to be heavily subsidised, but that it should go to Denmark rather than France, because that would plug a much more natural gap. Little did I realise the fury from Brit Nats and anti-Scottish rig...

For a third week in a row, the Scottish subsample from YouGov's weekly GB-wide poll shows the SNP with roughly double the support of Labour - but this time Labour have actually slumped to third place behind Reform UK. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like these videos, please subscribe to my channel! Many thanks. And if you'd like to help the chann...

As predicted, Andy Burnham quickly walked back his policy U-turn on Wednesday which had accepted that Scotland has the right to an independence referendum if its people want one, and he has not been held accountable for contradicting himself by our hopeless media. Now that he has reverted to the previous UK government policy that Scotland does not have the same right to self-determination that Nor...

Yesterday, at Prime Minister's Questions, Andy Burnham unexpectedly U-turned on the long-standing UK government policy that Scotland is in a prison and cannot leave the UK even if it wants to. He said that Scotland's position is identical to Northern Ireland's under the Good Friday Agreement in that a referendum can be held if there is public support for one. However, his misrepresentation of the...

After several weeks we finally have the first full-scale Scottish poll since Andy Burnham became Prime Minister. It's a Find Out Now poll for The National - and just like the majority of polls over the last eighteen months, it shows that Scotland wants to be an independent country. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscrib...

Has the world gone mad? It certainly appears that way, as Robin McAlpine's preposterous article suggesting that Scotland should not do a thing to try to win independence until there is a 75% supermajority in favour of it is followed up a few days later by an article from Gerry Hassan defending the UK government's denial of Scotland's right to self-determination, and bizarrely offering the 1979 dev...

Robin McAlpine penned one of the most dangerous articles of the year a few days ago - dangerous because, if the independence movement is foolish enough to pay heed to his advice, we would stop trying to win independence via the ballot box and try to do it via opinion polls. That's not merely a grotesque parody of the principle of democratic self-determination, it's also daft simply because opinion...