Talking-up Scotland

(c) GETTY: Look, up there, it’s Tony!

A sub-poll of 90 Scots, for Deltapoll and the Mail on Sunday, with fieldwork on 21^st to 23^rd February 2019, found SNP support steady at 41% and seems to reinforce four previous sub-polls giving them between 40 and 44%:

Conservatives  26%

Labour             26%

Lib Dems         5%

SNP                  41%

But, but, but, when they asked this question:

look what happens:

Conservatives  29%

Labour             13%

Lib Dems         2%

SNP                  45%

TIG                   9%

While the new Independence Group gets 9% and the Tories climb to 29%, the SNP reach a figure, 45%, which in a first-part-the-post system with the opposition further split like this, would enable them to almost wipe-out the opposition.

Also, look at the Lib Dem vote as half of them appear to have been drawn away from Willie, to Chuku and Chums. I know, tiny sample, but if anything like this happened more widely, they’d be in real trouble. In the Northern Isles, the already compromised Carruthers, would be out.