Believe in Scotland
- UK Parties pledge to dismantle Scotland’s Parliament 14/10/2026Three UK parties are now threatening Scotland’s Parliament. The Conservatives, Reform UK and Restore Britain have all pledged to either abolish Holyrood or to undermine it as a political power base, because they can't win elections here. Any unite-the-right coalition will diminish even the small power that the Scottish Parliament has.
- Burnham's Brexit referendum U-turn will backfire 08/10/2026Andy Burnham has indicated that the United Kingdom can revisit Brexit after 10 years and “we could go all the way” and rejoin the European Union. UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has also said that the “question of Europe was not settled forever”. Quite right. A decade is a long time in politics. Circumstances change, […]
- Wellbeing Economy and Pension policy pushes independence support to 63% 02/10/2026The point of our latest Norstat poll was not simply to ask whether Scotland would vote Yes or No in a referendum held tomorrow. We wanted to test what kind of independence Scotland’s people might actually vote for. Message testing is really important and it needs to be followed up on with focus groups and […]
- Burnham attack on Scottish pensions to fund English Care system backfires 01/10/2026Andy Burnham’s plan to raid Scottish pensions to fund free personal care for English pensioners is going down like cold chips in Scotland. On the podium at the Labour Party conference, the UK PM said he would break the triple lock, which has been very gradually raising the UK state pension since it was introduced […]
- Burnham is wrong - Scotland needs independence to tackle the cost of living 29/09/2026Andy Burnham’s big conference speech had little to offer Scotland. He mentioned Scotland only once - to say that he was determined not to be the last PM of the UK - because it would have upset his dad. Burnham did not mention Scotland’s right to choose its own constitutional future. Last week, a huge […]
- Celtic Exit poll finds Yes rises to almost 60% as national civic movements meet. 29/09/2026New polling has found that support for Scottish independence rises to almost 60% if Scottish voters become convinced that Northern Ireland is moving towards a united Ireland and Wales towards independence.
- New poll finds independence Support rises to 65% with Farage as Prime Minister 24/09/2026Written by Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp Nigel Farage and Reform UK may be generating some pretty bad press in the last few weeks, but nobody should assume that means the possibility of a Reform government has disappeared.
- Three democratic tests aced - one result: Scottish voters Demand the right to choose their future 23/09/2026Yesterday the Scottish Parliament debated what should be a simple democratic principle: Scotland is a sovereign nation and has the right to decide its own future.
- BREAKING: New poll debunks Unionist claims that Holyrood delivered a pro-Union majority 22/09/2026Our new poll completely destroys claims that Holyrood party votes can be counted as Pro-union votes.
- BREAKING: New poll finds Burnham’s indyref2 test met: Yes 52%, 67% say another referendum should happen 22/09/2026A new Scotland-wide poll has found that two-thirds of people who express a view believe the UK Government should agree to another independence referendum when there is clear majority public support for holding one. And that majority support already exists!