Signs of dramatic Tory revival causes new headache for Sturgeon’s Indyref 2 strategy

From the Sunday Times £ SNP set to lose 11 seats according to shock poll The Panelbase survey of 1,029 voters in Scotland — the first Scottish poll since Theresa May called a snap election — points to a surge in support that would take the Conservatives to 33%, up 18 points from two years ago. It amounts to their strongest showing north of the border since the days of Sir Edward Heath’s government in the 1970s before the steep …

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Pandas and Psephology of Scotland.

OK – we’ve finally found the formula: If Tory MPs in Scotland = x and Giant Pandas in Scotland = y the formula is: x=  (y-1) I think that’s a pretty scientific correlation. DewiWelsh Nationalist. Rugby Fan. Know a bit about History and Railways…

“A Tory who was not a Jacobite had nothing left to be a Tory about…”

Nice couple of pieces from two Massies, Allan in the case of the headline, and Alex below… Both provide acute background to the Tories’ Scottish dilemma. First Allan writing in the Scotsman, to give a contemporary construct to that historical headline: Today’s Jacobites, wanting to turn the clock back, are those who would repeal the Scotland Act and abolish the Scottish Parliament. There are such neo-Jacobites in the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party (and a number in the Scottish Labour …

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