In an Opinium poll with fieldwork done on 12-13th March 2020, SNP support was at 53%. Respondents were asked how they had voted in December 2019 and 2017 when only 49% and 44% respectively indicated SNP.
https://www.opinium.co.uk/political-polling-13th-march-2020/
The Kantar poll on 5-9th March had support at 4% of the overall poll, with no Scottish sub-poll data, suggesting support in the Scottish sample at 40% or just above that.
Readers will be familiar with the many reports suggesting civil war in the SNP, triggered by the Salmond case, such as Iain Macwhirter’s ridiculous:
I suppose they have to write something. Anything.
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Great news , the public are not buying all the whipped up media frenzy .
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And Nicola is showing herself, and her government to be head and shoulders above the westminster waffle.
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However, BBC Scotland are doing its weasely worst to try to link the FM and the SNP to the misdeeds, or NOT, of Mr Salmond.
That paragon of impartial and factual reporting, Ms Sarah Smith, did a piece to camera for the main UK news bulletin on the BBC. Despite my rather sour irony, what she SAID was actually factual and impartial, but the accompanying clips of film were most decidedly the visual equivalent of ‘dogwhistling’.
There were three.
The first showed Mr Salmond addressing a crowd either during the 2014 referendum, but possibly even earlier. The shot had Mr Salmond in the background, but in the foreground was a ‘younger-than-she-is-now’ Nicola Sturgeon.
The second clip showed a group out canvassing and they had a huge bunch of balloons and the camera did a close-up to show “SNP” on the balloons.
The third clip was, again more than 5 years old, of Mr Salmond on the stump, but this time in the foreground, but, in the background, but in focus and clearly identifiable was a smiling, Nicola Sturgeon.
I wonder what viewers were being invited to infer from these irrelevant and rather dated clips????
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Alasdair, if advertisers did it, it would be called “product placement”, and it would be illegal.
We all know what the BBC is—it is NOT impartial.
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Sturgeon Steady Ship.
All the SNP have to do is ride out the daily dose of frenzied trial froth, and they seem to be doing OK.
Next up is the pandemic. Scotland has largely gone with the UK response, in my view wrongly, but it’s working for Boris, so should be the same for Sturgeon.
There is no leverage in this, for any Britnat party. Carlot cannot attack without attacking Boris: Leotard is his usual cardboard cut-out impression.
Wee Wullie puts on his best greetin’ face–should have been a gravedigger to trade!
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