According to that organisation, 540,000 pro-union Scots would consider tactical voting.
But Dr Alistair Clark of Newcastle University, a specialist in voting behaviour and electoral systems, says such initiatives are seldom successful at the ballot box. “I can see what they’re trying to do with this, but it’s going to be a very hard thing for them to pull off,” he told the Sunday National.
“Tactical voting is a very difficult thing to pull off because you have to assume that voters are paying attention to the instructions you are giving out. People who are interested in politics like to think voters are pouring over every detail of what’s going on in their campaign. The reality is very far from that.