STURGEON – SNP FREE SCHOOL MEALS PLANS ‘A SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT IN SCOTLAND’S FUTURE’ Nicola Sturgeon will today urge voters to give both votes to the SNP on May 6th to deliver ambitious free-school meals plans which could save families hundreds of pounds a year. With four weeks to go until the election, the SNP Leader will confirm that an SNP Government will provide free school breakfasts and lunches to every primary school pupil. And both breakfast and lunches will be made available all year round, ending the holiday gap that left too many children hungry, and increasing the saving to … Continue reading SNP plans free school meals for ALL primary pupils

A BBC team has been in Brazil sending us back the most harrowing images of death, of failure to comply with measures to control the spread of infection and of a political leadership clearly guilty of failing to protect its own people. Back home, no such critique is aired by the state broadcaster. Instead Boris wanders around, presented as the leader who saved us with a bit of sharp business practice in cornering the market for vaccines but things have not been worse in Brazil. There has so far been far more death per capita in England and the UK … Continue reading Thank Boris we’re in England and not Brazil? No

In early February, Scotland vaccinating fewer overall as it tackled the logistics of vaccinating the most at risk in care homes, was big news for Reporting Scotland. By late February we were ahead but it was not reported. By late March, we were vaccinating far more but ‘radio silence’ was the order. Today we’re well ahead again: Over the last 7 days we’ve vaccinated far more: Reporting Scotland? Nothing. Continue reading Scotland ‘ahead of the pace’ and vaccinating far more than other parts of UK

Five polls in a row now, from five different pollsters, with their own slightly different methodologies, indicates a safe return to a majority for independence after a wee suspicious dip around the time of the media feeding frenzy on the FM and the former FM. The average lead of 2.6 is a bit modest compared to the slightly above 5 in November and December 2020 but emergence from lockdown, Tory cock-ups and campaigning will surely push it up again. Continue reading Yes leads for 5 polls in a row

Today’s Ipsos MORI poll for STV for 4th April puts the SNP, in the constituency vote, on 53% against only 20% and 18% for the Conservative and Labour. This suggests that the SNP is in line for 70 seats and a standalone majority of 11. Though the SNP is down from 47% on the last Ipsos MORI poll in February, in the Regional vote, at 38%, the Greens are up from 8% to 12% suggesting 11 seats and giving a pro-Indy lead of 22. Alba are down again at only 3% and the AFU scored zero. Continue reading SNP pull away with massive lead in latest poll

An Election Communication received by a friend of TuS, from Anas Sarwar / Scottish Labour which headlines a National Recovery for Jobs. It’s just a pity that they are not supporting local printing jobs as the leaflet is printed in Kettering Northants .. but to be fair they do spread work around as their last leaflet received was printed in Essex! Before posting this, I thought I’d better check my local SNP leaflet hadn’t been printed in London. It was printed in the Ayr constituency, in Troon. Continue reading Sarwar’s Labour supporting a jobs recovery in Kettering!

As a loyal SNP member, I shouldn’t be having this immature fun, but Holyrood will be a far better watch with Salmond and Galloway there. According to the Telegraph today, a party source told them: With 4% support, they [George Galloway’s AFU] would cost us five or six seats.Their support is coming disproportionately from us. The AFU predict a 14% share. I’m a gambler like someone, so I predict that the Alba Party will take 12 and the overall Indy majority will be 20 or more. All interplanetary comments welcome, earthling. Continue reading Galloway 6: Salmond 12?

In the run-up to an election, candidate in 2016 for RISE: Respect, Independence, Socialism and Environmentalism, James McEnany offers some anecdotal stuff from some teachers suggesting they’re responsible for nothing that happens in schools and that Nicola Sturgeon is ‘looking to blame them’ for the ‘mess’. This is an attempt to weaken support for the SNP. I see no statements by the FM blaming anyone or evidence of a mess, in reliable sources using reliable survey data from a representative sample of teachers. I see no acknowledgment of McEnaney’s loyalties to a cluster of former and current political organisations participating … Continue reading James McEnaney is no better than John McLellan

He’s in a wee bubble, inhabited by larger-than-life characters who he thinks determine our fates and who he, uniquely, can analyse for us. I can be in a bubble at times too, writing this stuff, but I get out. Even in my room, I get out to the opinion polls just to check in with a reasonable estimate of what others are thinking of doing. Here’s the key thing Campbell ignores. Most of the voters do not give a stuff about this psychodrama. Support for the parties rises and falls gently barely affected by changes in leadership or policy statements … Continue reading As SNP foot-soldiers surge on the streets, Glenn Campbell narrows his focus till he cannot see

We’ve been here before with BBC Wales far too soft on the devolved government compared with BBC Scotland’s more determined approach when exploiting health problems. Lisa Summers should probably not read on here. BBC Wales had headlined the above, tamely: Covid: Wales’ over-50s vaccine target success disputed When you read the report, it’s full of juicy stuff any Daily Mail or Sun churnalist would just love, such as: Garry Edwards, 51, from Anglesey, is registered as asthmatic and said he was still waiting for his invitation. He said he was previously told by his surgery only second jabs were being … Continue reading Vaccine crisis: Welsh Labour accused of lying over vaccine target for at risk adults