Major poll boost for SNP

An extraordinary poll has been produced for the next Westminster election which has given a previously unthinkable boost to the SNP! The poll puts the SNP at 38%, compared to Labour who are in a dire state at just 27%! Crucially, this poll is for Westminster, and the fact that the SNP has such a huge lead over Labour for the next general election is hugely significant! If repeated at the next election, the SNP would win 37 Westminster seats! Labour, however, would hold on to just 12 seats! The Lib Dems would have 8 seats and the Tories would have 2 seats.

Remember, just about 1 month ago, Labour had a massive 10 point lead over the SNP for Westminster! Now, after what has been probably Gordon Browns worst few weeks as Prime Minister yet, the SNP has now completely overturned that lead and are on course to become Scotland's biggest party at Westminster, making it not just the SNP's best ever poll for Westminster, but also Labour's worst ever polling result in Scotland ever!

Also, thought I would mention the news that a vote of no confidence is to be held against the Speaker Michael Martin tomorrow in the House of Commons! Personally, I think he should go as he has been speaker for just too long now and is too out of touch! And while were at it, why not call an election, Mr Brown, or are you to scared of the electorate?

Enough is enough! It's time for fundamental change!

It's been some week, hasn't it! Politicians from every party have been found out for squandering our cash! A mortgage that was already paid off, bookcases, moats, trouser pressers, and even horse manure are all just some of the things our elected representatives have claiming expenses for! So far, the MP who has been found to be the countries most expensive politician is Eric Joyce, the Labour MP for Falkirk, who claimed a grand total of £187, 334 of taxpayers money! What's interesting is that, out of the top 50 most expensive MPs, a staggering 42 of them are all Labour!! It's interesting as, just last year, Gordon Brown stated at his party conference that the Labour party was a party of "moral values" and a "drive for social reform"! Well, nothing could be further from the truth, and the voters know it! Take one constituent from the Speaker Micheal Martin's constituency, who said, she will "never, never vote Labour again"! Remember, it used to be that this was a place that people would vote for a monkey with a red rosette!

But what's happening here is not just a bad time for Labour, instead, what we are witnessing is something very much historical happening! Ever since 1921, the two main parties have been the Conservatives and the Labour party, with Tweedledum and Tweedledee switching from opposition to government several time over that 50 - 60 years! Now, that could all be about to change! Take a recent opinion poll, for example. Labour was put at just 17%, making neck and neck with the UK Independence Party and only three points ahead of the Liberal Democrats! As for the Scottish sample of that poll, Labour was at just 21%, it's lowest ever level in Scotland, with the SNP a massive 19 points ahead of Labour on 40%! Think about it, just a few years ago, a poll like this in Scotland would have been simple unthinkable, but then so was the thought of Labour MPs squandering taxpayers money, like spending £16, 000 on a mortgage already paid off!

What these polls represent is a real desire for, not just any old change of government like we've had over the past 50 - 60 years, but real fundamental change, with a desire for politics to tread on to uncharted ground, with not even just a completely new wrath of MPs, but a desire for a new agenda and a new party of government! We had our first taste of new governance in 2007 when Scotland voted in the SNP for the first time in history! Now, at Westminster, people are just becoming sick and tired of the old political class that has become out of touch and out of time! It is now being seriously suggested that the Labour party could follow the same path as the Liberals did in 1921 by becoming just the third largest party and not having any real chance of being in government for at least 50 years! In a way, it's not really that surprising that Labour should be punished in this way. It is the Labour party that has made democracy in this country a joke and a mockery!

When Labour became New Labour in the 90's, they effectively gave up and abandoned the very thing that the Labour party was set up to do, to help the non-privileged and to redistribute wealth from the rich to the poor! People are now asking themselves, what is the point of the Labour party? What do they honestly stand for? What record can Labour claim for the past 12 years? Well, I'll tell you what Labour's record is:-

• 1 in every 4 children living in poverty
• Pensioner poverty increasing by 20, 000 people, making the total number of pensioners in poverty 200, 000
• A deregulated market economy that has led us into the worst recession since the 1930's
• A centralised and part privatised NHS, which is not even worthy of the name
• An illegal war in Iraq
• Thousands of students in huge debt after leaving college and University
• Rising inflation, food prices and, of course, taxes
• Spending £25 billion to replace Trident (think what that money could have bought)
• Closure and reduction of vital services - such as the Post office
• Introduction ID cards (a total waste of money)
• A £1 billion cut in Scotland's budget meaning cuts in Schools and hospitals

What sort of record is this? And the Labour party is "Proud" of this record! It's a disgrace! People are just fed up! Fundamental change is needed as it is the only way the trust between the public and their elected representatives can be brought back! We have two elections in the next 12 months, the European election in less than 3 weeks time and the General election next year. I have a feeling that it will be in these elections that Labour is given the biggest kicking of its life and effectively killed off for many, many years to come! The current political system that has existed for the past 50 - 60 years is about to come to an end and, as a result, Democracy in this country is about to change! We will be the witnesses to history and it will be us that make it happen and I urge every person reading this to make it happen and vote for fundamental change! Of course, that comes with a warning! DO NOT vote for the fascist and racist views of the BNP! Take a lesson from history, where, in the Weimar republic of Germany in the 1920s and 30s, during a time of depression and political upheaval, many voters became fed up and turned to the Nazis! Think of the consequences of that and how NOT casting your vote for the BNP can stop that from being repeated! Fundamental change can happen in other forms and other parties! Of course, the best fundamental change we can create is by voting for Independence and giving ourselves that chance to run our own affairs and create a better system! After all, we can't do any worse than at the moment!

We've got what it takes!

SNP on course to win Euro elections!

This will knock the whole MP's expenses saga off the front pages, or at least it should! If not then I'll just be happy if it actually just gets a mention! To be honest, this story was actually in a newspaper so at least it has been mentioned! So what's so big about this story that I believe it should be the main headline grabbing story! Well, it's yet another poll, but not just any poll, an opinion poll for the European election!!!! Oh, the drama! Stop the Press! Call the Palace immediately, quick!!



Actually it is a good poll, for the SNP anyway. The SNP stands for euro voting intentions at 37%, giving us a massive 17 point lead over Labour, who are stuck at just 25%! In fact, Labour, in Scotland, are now only two points ahead of the Tories, who are at 23%! Meanwhile, Tavish Scott's ego party (or for those who care, Liberal Democrats) are pushed right down to a mere 8%! How would this result in seats then:



SNP :- 3 seats

Labour :- 2 seats

Tories :- 1 seat

Lib Dems :- 0 seats



This would result in SNP candidates Ian Hudgeton, Alyn Smith and Aileen McLeod all becoming Scotland's super three MEP's! But one question still remains, will the turnout go beyond 25%!

SNP surges ahead of Labour in wake of budget

It was only a few weeks ago that Iain Gray told delegates at his Scottish Liebour conference in Dundee (now a fully SNP city) that apparently "Scottish Labour is back"! Oh, how wrong he was!! Today, only about a month later, the SNP has proved once more that not only is Labour in Scotland NOT back but it's now in a worse and dire state than it ever has been before! Seriously, it's just getting embarrassing for them now! And to give you an idea of just how sad a state they're in, have a look at who voter's wanted as First Minister. Alex Salmond leads once again on 37%, a massive 19 points ahead of Iain Gray who is not only in third place (behind Annabel Goldie who is Second on 10%) but is actually only got the support of just 7% of those polled!! That's lower than what Wendy Alexander got!! So great progress Iain, what an achievement! You've actually succeeded in becoming less popular than your predecessor, Alexander the not so great! Think about though, managing to become less popular than Wendy Alexander is definitely an achievement and Iain Gray deserves our congratulations for doing so! Or perhaps not!

In terms of Holyrood voting intentions, in the constituency vote the SNP leads over Labour by 7 points and in the regional vote the SNP leads by 9 points! What this poll actually shows, if you look closely into the results, you actually find that the SNP is actually more popular among Labour voters than Labour is! As for Westminster, both SNP and Labour are neck-and-neck with Labour on 32% and SNP on 30%! This to me says that the SNP is becoming closer to achieving our 20 seat target at Westminster! One seat to watch: Dundee West, a seat now certain to go SNP at the next election! So for Labour it's a sorry state of affairs but, in the end of the day, does anyone really feel sorry for them? Nah, didn't think so!

Labour party is sinking in sleaze!

Well, the story of the "smear campaign" emails appears not to be letting up, which personally I think is great as it allows myself and many other bloggers to talk about the absolutely dire situation in which the Labour party appears to have entrenched itself! It's now becoming a weekly habit, with yet another story of sleaze coming out constantly. It used to be that it was tales of "Cash for honours" when it was Tony Blair, which certainly caused him a bit of bother, to say the least, then Gordon Brown came to power with a "pledge" to end the evil Bogey monster that is spin!! But, just like the story of his life, he broke that promise with devastating consequences, for him anyway! First there was expenses. Now don't get me wrong, I appreciate that expenses are important for MP's who live in Places like Shetland, but how can an MP who lives in London be able to claim expenses for 3 different homes, not to mention all the essential perks that just have to come with those homes such as the 42" widescreen plasma screen HD TV!! Oh, and let's not forget the £300 expenses claims for, wait for it, PLANT POTS!!! Yes, your read it correctly. That's Jacqui Smith for you! And what about the Chancellor Alistair Darling? Well he's claimed expenses for 4 homes, despite the fact that his official home at 11 Downing Street is Rent Free! And for some reason one of the homes he claimed expenses claims for was in the Western Isles! I don't get it, what would an MP who represents an Edinburgh constituency need a home in the Western Isles for? Oh, that's right, it's a "holiday home"!! Well that makes perfect sense now why it would require taxpayers money to pay for it!



Seriously, Labour is sinking in sleaze. Another recent example of this was Jacqui Smith's husband. Yet another expenses claim, though not for a house this time. Instead they claimed taxpayers cash for pornographic movies, or should I say "added features"! This is a disgrace, and what's even more disgraceful is that the money claimed has not been asked to be paid back to the taxpayer! This week, we've had the latest "Big" story with the "Blog-gate affair"! Gordon Brown claims that he did not know about it, but how on earth could he possibly not know about it when he is his closest advisor whom he spends more time with than his wife, Sarah Brown! It's all a bit of a mystery to me, but what it does show is that if the Labour government can't even control it's own advisers, then how can it possibly control the country, especially at a time of recession, one which Labour created!! The end of the New Labour project is near!

The power of blogs

If anyone out there has ever doubted the power political blogs have then please switch on your TV and watch the news. Recent emails sent from none other than 10 Downing Street have been uncovered which show that one of Gordon Browns closest advisers attempted to launch a 'smear campaign' against the Tories. It is hugely embarrassing for Brown but I'm not going to say anymore about it as it was actually a fellow political blogger who managed to uncover the emails and has announced that he will make the emails public on his blog from tomorrow (12th April). He's been on the TV telling the news reporters all about his find and the story has even made it as the main news headline! The very fact that it was a blog which discovered these emails just goes to show how powerful blogs and there bloggers are! This particular blogger is known for being controversial but is very good and I congratulate him on his find! Personally, I'm eagerly looking forward to the emails becoming public tomorrow. You can find the blog on http://www.order-order.com/