YouGov poll in Scotland...
Aug. 13th, 2008 04:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rhythmaning"SNP will rout Labour in general election - poll...Labour will lose almost half its Westminster seats to the SNP as the backlash grows against Gordon Brown's Government, according to an opinion poll today." So says todays Independent. There is nothing on the Indie website about this article, and the banner says "Printed in Scotland", so perhaps they have started a Scotland-only edition (I'll bet it lasts for the duration of the festival only...).
The Indie says the poll by YouGov forecasts both Alistair Darling and Des Browne will lose their seats. The Scotsman focuses on Darling and others losing their seats.
You can see the results on the YouGov website here.
Not surprisingly, the SNP website has most about the poll - they commissioned the poll - although the figures quoted by the SNP (45% SNP, 25% Labour, LibDem 14%) are different from those in the Indie (SNP 36%, Labour 29%, LibDem 13%) - and I can't make either set of numbers from the results published on the YouGov website.
Still, whoever you believe, it is a huge fall in Labour's support, echoing the resent Glasgow East by-election defeat.
This is compounded by the news today that Labour will have to fight another Scottish by-election following the death of Glenrothes MP John MacDougall.
The Indie says the poll by YouGov forecasts both Alistair Darling and Des Browne will lose their seats. The Scotsman focuses on Darling and others losing their seats.
You can see the results on the YouGov website here.
Not surprisingly, the SNP website has most about the poll - they commissioned the poll - although the figures quoted by the SNP (45% SNP, 25% Labour, LibDem 14%) are different from those in the Indie (SNP 36%, Labour 29%, LibDem 13%) - and I can't make either set of numbers from the results published on the YouGov website.
Still, whoever you believe, it is a huge fall in Labour's support, echoing the resent Glasgow East by-election defeat.
This is compounded by the news today that Labour will have to fight another Scottish by-election following the death of Glenrothes MP John MacDougall.