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So far, I’ve got these:

1. Donald Gatt elected to Keith and Cullen stood for UKIP before and commenting on free meals for P1 pupils, is reported to have said that those who cannot afford to feed their children should use a contraceptive.
2. Neil Graham, a Paisley councillor, had his contact details on a leaked BNP database. I downloaded that myself at the time and found a near neighbour on it!
3. Ian James, for Strathtay, was reported to have praised a speech by UKIP MEP Steven Woolfe and bemoaned the lack of characters like Enoch Powell in the tory Pary leadership campaign.
4. Fife teacher Kathleen Leslie described Nicola Sturgeon as a “drooling hag”, a “wee fish wife” and a “walking horror show”. This is a teacher, a role model for young people, who teaches what…..English? Is she that braw hereself
5. Ken MacBrayne for Benbecula and North Uist, Roxana Iancu for Glasgow and George McIntyre for midlothian were caught in time and dropped, after anti-Muslim rants by them were allegedly identified.
6. David Wilson of Inverclyde was reported to have asked gay people to out themselves during a public meeting during which a donation to an LGBT group had been moved.
7. A supposedly grown man telling a Scottish school girl at an expensive English private school to ‘Fuck off back to Scotland’ after she expressed support for Scottish independence. James Heappey, ­prospective MP for Wells, Somerset made the statement while talking to the Sixth Form girls at the school.
8. Nancy Duncan of Mintlaw, the newly-elected vice chair of the Conservative Women’s Scottish Council an office bearer for the Banff and Buchan Conservative & Unionist Branch tweeted:‘It would be good to know exactly where in Peterhead the Hitler Youth [SNP activists] are holding their rally’ She also added images of swastikas and Hitler.
9. https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/10971/tories-silent-growing-evidence-anti-irish-and-anti-catholic-bigotry-inside-party
10. Renfrewshire councillor Neill Graham was ousted from his new role on the authority’s Joint Consultative Board for non-teaching staff within 48 hours, after trade unions threatened a boycott. The newly elected Tory, last month had to apologise for circulating material from Protestant pride groups on Facebook.

No doubt there are more, many more.

(c) By Kevin Rae, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9256022

Conservative canvassers in Cowie and Bannockburn were NOT told to ‘Fuck off back to England’ yesterday. They were told:

‘Get out of Scotland!’ and ’You’re not welcome in Scotland.’

PC Pauline Correct reported the incident to the Police Scotland PC Committee and confirmed that the SNP activists had not said the word ‘fucking’ but she could see it in their facial expressions. The committee thus ruled the comments abusive and will expect the SNP executive to take action against the activists. Evidence that an English MP had recently told a Scottish schoolgirl attending an English fee-paying school in Somerset to ‘Fuck off back to Scotland’ was ruled inadmissible because Tories have protection under the Act of Union. See:

‘Fuck off back to Scotland!’ I told you, we can rely on the sort of people the Tories are to help us win Indyref2

 

Senior Conservatives have called the language fucking unacceptable and called on that wee bitch Nicola Sturgeon to fucking sack them all.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/general-election/police-investigate-get-out-of-scotland-abuse-video-1-4457902

This is the headline from gov.scot yesterday confirming the success of the application to the World Health Organisation, I reported on in March:

SNP Cabinet Secretary applauded for his help as Scotland’s BSE risk now likely to be graded ‘negligible’ at least three years before England and Wales

The risk of BSE in Scotland is now considered ‘negligible’.

The last confirmed case in Scotland was in 2002. The last case in Wales was only last year and the last in England was in 2012. England and Wales are not due to have their status reconsidered before 2020 at the earliest.

The Scottish Association of Meat Wholesalers submitted the application for re-grading with the help of the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy and Connectivity. In march, they noted:

‘We applaud the work done by Fergus Ewing and his officials in advancing and pursuing ‘negligible risk’ case on the industry’s behalf and look forward to being free to trade under our new status as early as the summer.’

Some readers may remember how BSE started. If not see this from Frederick A. Murphy, DVM, PhD, Dean of the School of Veterinary Medicine at the University of California in mad-cow.org:

‘In the early 1980s in England the rendering process (by which livestock carcasses are converted to various products, including protein supplements for livestock feed) was changed. Earlier, a solvent extraction step had been used to extract fats (tallow); this step was stopped when the price of the petroleum-based solvents used to extract fats went up. The infectious agent is solvent-sensitive. Otherwise, the infectious agent is extremely hardy — it can survive boiling and many disinfectants, but is readily destroyed by extremely high temperature (such as in an autoclave), or by oxidizing agents, or by solvents.’

http://meatinfo.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/20923/Scotland_92s_wholesalers_welcome_BSE_breakthrough.html

https://news.gov.scot/news/bse-negligible-risk-status

 

It’s only a subset of 108 Scots from a survey of 1200 UK voters but like the overall sample it is considered representative of the electorate so it’s still pretty interesting. Remember the 1200 represent 0.0026% of the roughly 46 million-strong electorate and the Scottish subset of 108 represents 0.0027% of the roughly 4 million-strong electorate. Let’s not quibble over the 0.0001% difference.

This is the second subset showing stronger support than Scotland-only polls for independence/SNP. See:

Latest poll: Backing for Scottish independence at 57%

Subsets of polls are generally ignored but I’m beginning to wonder. This Kantar TNS Omnibus poll interviewed a representative sample of 1 200 adults in Great Britain between the 18^th May and 22^nd May 2017. So, this was post the disastrous Tory manifesto release and the u-turn on social care for the elderly – the ‘dementia tax.’

You’ll have seen that Labour appears have closed the gap in England to only 5% in wider poll:

SUMMARY: Con 43%, Lab 38%, Lib 10%, UKIP 4%, Others 6%

BY: YouGov: SAMPLE: 2,052 GB adults online

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/2017-poll-tracker-general-election-10266121

In Wales, they also seem to have stopped a Tory surge in its tracks:

The latest YouGov Welsh poll for ITV Wales and Cardiff University has top-line figures of CON 34%(-7), LAB 44%(+9), LDEM 6%(-1), Plaid 9%(-2), UKIP 5%(+1).

http://ukpollingreport.co.uk/

Now, here are the figures from the KANTAR TNS Scottish subset:

SNP                  49%

Labour             15%

Conservative   8%

Lib Dem           2%

That suggests a massive collapse in Scottish Tory support. Further, if you look at the undecided and ask them which party they prefer, you get:

SNP                  12%

Labour             7%

Conservative   5%

Lib Dem           3%

So, you could, in the best-case scenario have SNP support at around 60%

Why has this happened?  It might be a little to do with the reports of nasty Tory tweeting and the apparent Nazi element amongst new Tory local councillors but it seems more likely that the disastrous Tory manifesto, the welcomed Labour manifesto and Theresa’s u-turn have had the same effect in Scotland as in England and Wales. Kezia may have a lot to thank Jeremy for. See this:

http://www.tns-bmrb.co.uk/sites/tns-bmrb/files/KPUK%20Polling%20tables%20-%2023.5.2017.pdf