tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post7085313871389524023..comments2024-03-28T07:16:39.621+00:00Comments on Lallands Peat Worrier: That latest Ipsos-MORI Scottish poll...Lallands Peat Worrierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18276270498204697708noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-4402919917504756942011-09-04T21:13:31.020+01:002011-09-04T21:13:31.020+01:00Baron Sarwar
Greatly appreciate yon data. While i...<b>Baron Sarwar</b><br /><br />Greatly appreciate yon data. While it is reasonably respectable to treat polls like straw on the wind, it's always curious to look back in time and see where stood Scotland then. True enough on councils. Insofar as national trends impact on these things, you may be interested in the regional breakdowns further on in that Ipsos-MORI report I link to. Obviously, they don't neatly follow council boundaries, but may be indicative.<br /><br /><b>Jim,</b><br /><br />A funny thing, that. Even with Labour doing very poorly in the poll, it seems Mr Miliband hasn't inherited his predecessor's bewildering capacity, despite it all, to retain the good esteem of many of the Scottish electorate.<br /><br /><b>Tony,</b><br /><br />It'll be interesting to see how the next half decade of Scottish politics goes. Things obviously have a significant capacity to change, but at the moment, Labour are looking calamitous, not comfortable challengers for the Scottish Government. An astonishing reversal, from their many years of comfort.Lallands Peat Worrierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07238432265194046726noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-82148408111400498532011-09-04T17:42:20.093+01:002011-09-04T17:42:20.093+01:00Apart from the solid growing domination of the SNP...Apart from the solid growing domination of the SNP (thessala, thessala)the only point of note is the continuing disparity between men and wimmen when voting for labour and the SNP.<br /><br />Can't all be single mothers dependent on the state as I have heard in the past, so there is an issue that is long overdue to be addressed.Tonynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-70190147088700176772011-09-04T11:08:23.387+01:002011-09-04T11:08:23.387+01:00So men are more likely to be satisfied with Camero...So men are more likely to be satisfied with Cameron than Miliband? *splutters into my morning coffee*<br /><br />Young Edward really needs to pull his socks upJim Jeppshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17410387006098326671noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1638916042737526171.post-81118053910770493752011-09-03T18:40:44.749+01:002011-09-03T18:40:44.749+01:00By way of comparison, the constituency figures for...By way of comparison, the constituency figures for Dec 2007 (i.e. roughly this point into the last SNP govt) were:<br /><br />SNP 40 LAB 29 CON 12 LD 13 OTH 6<br /><br />(There was a Progressive Scottish Opinion poll in August of that year, but I suspect them to be of the reversed fag packet school of polling.)<br /><br />Now if you'll allow me a little moan about the polling companies and their paymasters....<br /><br />The interest for all the parties is the council elections next year, yet we've no polls specifically on that. Indeed, in the last 15 years I can't remember ever seeing a poll carried out asking folk how they'll vote for their council, as opposed to parliament(s).<br /><br />As I am all too painfully aware of at the moment, extrapolating between 'X' marks the spot and STV preferential elections is fishing in the dark and, given how important transfers are in the later rounds of STV elections, makes assessing how each party is likely to perform next year incredibly difficult.<br /><br />STV polling would also, handily, give a near-endless assortment of numbers for the anoraks/psephologists to play with. Which is surely the best reason of all for YouGov/MORI/ICM et al to fill a gap in the market.Baron Sarwarnoreply@blogger.com