From Survation today with quite a big, thus more reliable, sample of 3 106, evidence of steadily increasing SNP support and falling support for Labour. In the most recent 3 polls the average lead was 5% for SNP, in the previous 3 it was 3.66% for the SNP and in the previous 3, before the General Election, it was 1% for Labour. Looking at individual pollsters, Survation have gone from a 4% Labour lead in June, to a tie in mid-September and in mid-November, a 5% lead for the SNP. Norstat have gone from a 3% lead for the SNP … Continue reading SNP lead in an increasing trend which casts serious doubt that Sarwar can ever be FM

FFS Steven, Greens hate soya. It’s being grown in the cleared Amazon forests to feed pigs in China. Do catch up. Above is the latest lame attempt by the Herald’s third-best cartoonist to squeeze a laugh out of the new ferries. Should you have effall better to do, look and despair at his previous stuff: It’s a sad state of affairs that the above pub-level banality passes for political satire at the Herald. To waste more time on his output considered, see: https://talkingupscotlandtwo.com/?s=Camley On ferries, here’s why his infantile pokes are not so much below the belt as below the average … Continue reading

By Professor John Robertson OBA This is a constant chorus from the opposition parties but it’s not based on any scientific evidence. From the London School of Economics in 2013: In theory, transport improvements decrease transportation costs, improve access to markets, foster economic integration, stimulate competition, generate agglomeration economies and a number of other ‘wider’ economic benefits….Although road improvements are routinely subject to appraisal – predicting the economic benefits before the roads are built – they have not historically been subject to any evaluation in order to work out whether these benefits actually materialised! So will road-building set the UK on … Continue reading Why dualing the A9 is less important than the opposition claim