By The National
Ruth Davidson, Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Douglas Ross feature heavily in The National s new billboard campaign NATIONAL readers have voted for a billboard of Boris Johnson calling Scots a verminous race as their favourite from our new campaign. The digital billboards have begun appearing across locations in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, highlighting key messages that the Tories would rather you forget. More than half (51%) of readers voted for the billboard which highlights a poem published by the Prime Minister during his time as editor of The Spectator magazine calling the “Scotch” a verminous race and for Hadrian s wall to be rebuilt to pen them in a ghetto on the other side .
Nicola Sturgeon s SNP are on track to secure a majority, a new poll found THE SNP are on track to secure a majority at the upcoming Scottish Parliament election, according to the latest research from Opinium. The polling firm puts the SNP’s constituency support at 51% and regional support at 41%, pointing towards 67 seats in total. Opinium’s research picked up a two-point increase in support for the Tories on the regional vote and no change for Labour on 17%. It is one of the most optimistic polls in terms of the projected Tory losses, suggesting the party will only be down two seats on its 2016 result with 29 MSPs. Meanwhile Labour would be on 20 MSPs, a decrease of three.
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IS it fear that causes Unionists to spurn full powers, thus retaining subservience to the English-dominated Westminster, or is it cowardice? In the real world, the equivalent to present-day Scottish politics would be “fearing to cut nurse’s apron strings”. Over recent decades we have come through, in succession, the need for self-determination, home rule, a Scottish Parliament and devolution. Driven by the Labour party, questioning why we were governed from Westminster by a party we had not voted for, devolution was duly delivered. George (now Lord) Robertson decreed that “Devolution would kill national stone dead”, while the then Prime Minister Tony Blair described it as similar to a parish council. So, top marks to Tony.