New Scottish Independence poll, Norstat 27-30 May (changes vs 11-14 Feb): Yes ~ 50% (+2) No ~ 43% (-4) Don’t Know ~ 6% (+1) Excluding Don’t Knows (/ vs 2014): Yes ~ 54% (+4 / +9) No ~ 46% (-4 / -9)

by Cold-Monitor3800

17 comments

  1. Remember when most people thought we’d be independent within a decade of the referendum, and now the dial has barely shifted? So much hope and momentum absolutely wasted.

  2. Been so many of these polls, SNP are clueless as what to do with it. Ask for another referendum I suppose, maybe it will actually work this time, who knows?

  4. Genuine question.

    How are people contacted for these polls?

    I wouldn’t go out my way to find them, would probably participate if I was contacted and thought it was legit.

    If its a site that people have to find then the results may be skewed by people actively hunting them to make a point.

  5. Let’s be honest here. We all know what’s going on here.

  6. Talk about polarisation when you have reform perhaps on course to be second biggest party in Sotland at the same time.

    That said, there are plenty of ‘reform adjacent’ Independence supporters

  7. It does not matter if that poll mark even overwhelmingly a “yes”.

    The call does not fall in Holyrood . A legally binding referendum would be called by Wentminster

  8. I can also take polls for referendums that aren’t happening.

  9. It’s astounding, given the absolute car crash of UK politics since 2015, that support for independence isn’t 100%

    Why are you people so indecisive on the matter? 1776 was the best thing the 13 colonies ever did!

  10. England is not about to allow us to vote when they know they will lose

  11. We need this more than ever. Everyone is entitled to their own political views and that’s fine but this time let’s put all the differences aside and do what’s best for Scotland.

  12. The SNP is now against the oil and gas industry, which is huge for tax money because net zero is more important than people having cheap energy, even if you exclude the the actual tax from the oil companies you have the tax from the hundreds of service companies. I was a yes in 2014 but I would be a no if it was now

  13. What angers me is that in 2014 we weren’t asking for independence.

    We were asking for Dominian status which Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc got about 100 years ago.

    If you actually read the White Paper it’s basically the Statute of Westminster.

    We were asking for slightly more independence than US states have.

    But that was too much for the British and North British elite.

  14. you will get naysayers who don’t like threat of the poll and deny yes us is creeping up but here is a starting fact
    1. before 2020 – only one poll ever had yes higher than no

    2. 2020-now – must have been a couple of dozen with yes in the lead.

    This imo is a real thing though slow. It’s mostly driven by the baby boomer (and older) generations thinning out. They have been the bedrock of the unionist vote for decades. In fact they are something like 75% unionist. But that’s a timebomb as a huge amount of boomers will be dead in the next 10 years and Gen X are about twice as pro indy as them

  15. a parliament that is 90% bit scottish mps or a government that is about 95% non scottish MPs having a veto on indyrefs is absurd and is the reason the irish gave up on that non-democracy and turned to violence

  16. the issue is I don’t think the word wants involved in a knifedge divide. I only think the world will engage in this as a democratic travesty when the lead reaches a concurrent 60-40 lead consistently. I think that will come but likely not till about 2030 as the boomer vote that the unionists heavily depend on gets thinned out. You can’t allow the minority 40% to overrule the majority 60% why is fifty % higher! I think indy will come but not in this decade.

  17. Understandable. The Union continues to offer nothing remotely positive, a Farage premiership is increasingly likely, and all the supposed downsides of independence all happened to us anyway in the Union.

    Its only really ideological stubbornness masked as economic concern that’s keeping people away from independence at this point

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