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October1974 · Standing in a Council Ward Joined: 11 Mar 2006 Posts: 425

According to the Dail Mail - Scottish edition if there were a Holyrood election tomorrow - this was mentioned on the radio this morning

SNP 48
Lab 32
Con 8
Lib 8

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True Scotsman · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 1:59 pm Post subject:

It's not on the Daily Mail website but I found more information on this website and as October1974 said it is on the Scottish Edition of the Daily Mail and an article about it.

http://www.epolitix.com/EN/News/2...d-92c2-4f35-960f-3b641a77c1a5.htm

Maol.Chaluim · Posted: Fri Aug 10, 2007 3:28 pm Post subject:

kevin04 · Standing in a Council Ward Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 459

Interesting poll indeed, more so interesting in the case of the Fibs and the Torys, if the SNP do a positive job in Gov't.

Do you think the 8% rating for the Libs is a) due to their attitude towards a coalition with the SNP? or b) the floating voters who voted for them before have seen the SNP getting off to a great start in Gov't and shifted to them?

So from one opinion poll we can conclude that the SNP seem to be doing a good job in Scotland and ofcourse opinion polls are not the real thing but well done the snp for such a high rating so far.

Maol.Chaluim · Posted: Sat Aug 11, 2007 11:11 am Post subject:

According to an article in The Herald:

SouthernJock · Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:53 am Post subject:

Strange that the Herald reports the opinion poll as regards independence
slightly differently
'Asked if they would approve or disapprove of Scotland becoming independent, the poll found the electorate would be 31% against, 49% in favour, with 20% unsure. When asked last January how they would vote in an independence referendum, 51% was in favour, 36% against with 14% unsure'
So which is it???
We have The Scotsman, Sunday Mail and Daily Mail stating that support for independence is only 31%, while the Herald reports that support is 49%
The problem is that we cant get access to the actual poll as Scottish Opinion dont seem to post the polls on there own website.
Looking at the figures though I would tend to go with the Herald, reason being that the unsures has increased from 14% to 20%, which is 6 percentage points, which is closer to the difference of 51-49=2 and 36-31=5. Than 51-31=20 and 49-36=13. If the later then the unsures would be more like 46%!

SLG · Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 9:09 pm Post subject:

Anyone find out about this? The Evening News reported it as 31% for independence, but they probably just copied it straight off the Scotsman article.

I can't believe a poll could find 48% for the SNP and only 31% for independence. It doesn't make sense. If it is a massive 49-31 split in favour of independence, it will be an amazing incident of misreporting.

Mctosh45 · Helping with the Count Joined: 15 Oct 2006 Posts: 316

The Herald have got it wrong and transposed the figures.

It would be interesting to see the question asked on independence? Confused

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Maol.Chaluim · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 9:52 am Post subject:

Aye, the result is anomalous with regards to the the last 9 years of polls.
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Niall · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:09 pm Post subject:

I Took part in the YOU GOV poll that was quoted in the Daily mail. There were four parts to the question on Independence:
1. Favour outright Independence
2. More powers for the Scottish parliament
3. No. Retain the status quo
4. Don't know, don't care.

This question was definitely loaded and its results were predictable. More unionist bullshit and propaganda. There should have been three questions:

1. Yes, Full Independence
2. No. Retain the status quo.
3. Don't know, don't care.

That would have given a more truthful answer.

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Maol.Chaluim · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 1:19 pm Post subject:

So the percentages for more powers and the status quo have been added together? You can't do that, surely!
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Economist · Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 2:34 pm Post subject:

It wasn't Yougov that were commissioned to do the poll, it was an outfit called Scottish Opinion, who aren't members of the Polling Council.

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