Can you summarise and distill these interesting charts for us.
Things that stood out to me:
* Government disapproval of the Scottish government is high, but higher yet is UK government disapproval (something that needs addressed if Labour is to have a chance – perception issue perhaps?)
* Greens being second in parties people would consider voting? Disconnect between VI and what people would prefer?
* Labour are losing over half of our 2024 voters – again something that needs to be tackled. (IMO by not pandering to the right, but by making a positive case)
* Younger people more likely to vote No — is that the first time this has happened?
* Other than the constitution and standing up for Scotland, Scots have faith in no party to deliver on key issues. A critical failure in delivery.
Edit: Any reason this is being downvoted? I thought it was a fair observation and my own analysis. If you disagree with my observations, please let’s discuss.
Mildly amused how they don’t quite know what to call Your Party.
“A new left wing party led by Jeremy Corbyn” has very “PartyNameDraftFinal-v2-v3-thisone-FINAL.doc” vibes.
What that tells me is a whole lot of people think “none of the above” and I think that’s because our politicial parties chase short term wins in the newspaper and lose people over time because people see through it.
Our politics are in a stasis that reminds me of Eastern Bloc countries in the 1980s. You vote SNP because you don’t like the Union, but for going on 20 years the SNP can’t assemble the plurality of support to end the Union. Reform are too contemptuous of Scotland to go for a “branch office” strategy ala Labour and the Tories, so they suffer from association with posh Tory Farage and fail to decisively displace the other unionist parties, both of which are intellectually and morally bankrupt. The only real change is happening in England.
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Looks like “Don’t know” would win?
Those independence demographics are food for thought for unionists. As the older population ages out, the independence vote grows.
The 24-49 age group having a massive lead of 47/29 pro-indy is actually quite wild.
Why should one care about nearly 12 year old data re: independence?
For me it’s pretty telling that last graph on bottom right.
Outside of “Scottish” matters, of which people find the SNP in favour of dealing with, the “Don’t knows” for every single other metric of which party would be best at dealing with said issues, is shocking and shows how poorly people actually think of the SNP, considering they’ve been in power for so long.
So what does this really mean?
* SNP with a double digit lead over other parties
* Scottish Greens doing well
* Lib Dems doing unfathomably well
* Labour scratching at fourth place assuming Starmer doesn’t put his foot in it again (a bold assumption)
* Tories clinging on like a bad smell
* Magic Grandpa’s House of Transphobes and Landlords is what I’d pick for their name
* Alba lol
Looks like “getting on with the day job” pays dividends huh?
Just a reminder, yougov isn’t a government owned or funded organisation. It is actually owned and created by the Tories, well a group of Tories. They exist to sway public opinions, not document them. They are not as reliable as people would like to think.
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Can you summarise and distill these interesting charts for us.
Things that stood out to me:
* Government disapproval of the Scottish government is high, but higher yet is UK government disapproval (something that needs addressed if Labour is to have a chance – perception issue perhaps?)
* Greens being second in parties people would consider voting? Disconnect between VI and what people would prefer?
* Labour are losing over half of our 2024 voters – again something that needs to be tackled. (IMO by not pandering to the right, but by making a positive case)
* Younger people more likely to vote No — is that the first time this has happened?
* Other than the constitution and standing up for Scotland, Scots have faith in no party to deliver on key issues. A critical failure in delivery.
Edit: Any reason this is being downvoted? I thought it was a fair observation and my own analysis. If you disagree with my observations, please let’s discuss.
Mildly amused how they don’t quite know what to call Your Party.
“A new left wing party led by Jeremy Corbyn” has very “PartyNameDraftFinal-v2-v3-thisone-FINAL.doc” vibes.
What that tells me is a whole lot of people think “none of the above” and I think that’s because our politicial parties chase short term wins in the newspaper and lose people over time because people see through it.
Our politics are in a stasis that reminds me of Eastern Bloc countries in the 1980s. You vote SNP because you don’t like the Union, but for going on 20 years the SNP can’t assemble the plurality of support to end the Union. Reform are too contemptuous of Scotland to go for a “branch office” strategy ala Labour and the Tories, so they suffer from association with posh Tory Farage and fail to decisively displace the other unionist parties, both of which are intellectually and morally bankrupt. The only real change is happening in England.
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Looks like “Don’t know” would win?
Those independence demographics are food for thought for unionists. As the older population ages out, the independence vote grows.
The 24-49 age group having a massive lead of 47/29 pro-indy is actually quite wild.
Why should one care about nearly 12 year old data re: independence?
For me it’s pretty telling that last graph on bottom right.
Outside of “Scottish” matters, of which people find the SNP in favour of dealing with, the “Don’t knows” for every single other metric of which party would be best at dealing with said issues, is shocking and shows how poorly people actually think of the SNP, considering they’ve been in power for so long.
So what does this really mean?
* SNP with a double digit lead over other parties
* Scottish Greens doing well
* Lib Dems doing unfathomably well
* Labour scratching at fourth place assuming Starmer doesn’t put his foot in it again (a bold assumption)
* Tories clinging on like a bad smell
* Magic Grandpa’s House of Transphobes and Landlords is what I’d pick for their name
* Alba lol
Looks like “getting on with the day job” pays dividends huh?
Just a reminder, yougov isn’t a government owned or funded organisation. It is actually owned and created by the Tories, well a group of Tories. They exist to sway public opinions, not document them. They are not as reliable as people would like to think.
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