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The polls look great for Yes at the moment, but the indyref2 campaign has not yet begun and pollsters have got it badly wrong before IT’S easy to forget that the EU referendum should never have happened. By this I don’t mean it shouldn’t have happened because I – along with millions of others – thought Brexit was a terrible idea. It shouldn’t have happened because the Conservative party should not have won a majority of seats in 2015. It’s easy to forget now, but at the time no-one thought this was going to happen. In January 2013, when David Cameron made that fateful promise of a referendum if – and only if – his party won a majority, it did not seem likely at all. We all remember that Ukip’s popularity was soaring at the time, with polls showing them overtaking tarnished LibDems to become the third most popular party in the UK, but it’s easy to forget that at the time Ed Miliband’s Labour were a whopping 10 points ahead of the Tories.