Meanwhile polling shows that Nicola Sturgeon is the most popular leader in Britain
The SNP are on course to gain all 59 seats in Scotland, according to a fresh poll out today.
The data, compiled by Ipsos-Mori for STV, puts the SNP on 54 per cent of the vote, up two percentage points since January. The Labour Party is languishing on 20 per cent (down four points). The Tories are up five points to 17 per cent, whilst the Lib Dems are up one point to five per cent. The Greens are down two points to two per cent and UKIP are on one per cent.
According to electoral calculus, this would see the SNP pick up all 59 seats in Scotland.
The poll comes just a day after a Survation poll for the Daily Record put the SNP in Scotland on 51 per cent of the vote, with Labour on just 26 per cent. Replicated nationwide, this would hand the SNP 55 out of Scotland’s 59 seats in the House of Commons.
This in turn came a day after polling by TNS put the SNP in Scotland on 54 per cent of the vote, compared to Labour on just 22 per cent.
Similarly, the latest poll of polls compiled by Professor John Curtice for the What Scotland Thinks website puts the SNP on 50 per cent of the vote, 25 percentage points ahead of Scottish Labour.
With Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy warning that the SNP gaining half or more of the votes cast in Scotland would turbo charge the country towards a second independence referendum, John Curtice has warned that Labour’s problem in Scotland could well be its leadership.
Assessing Miliband and Murphy’s poor standing in the eyes of Scottish voters, he concludes:
“If disaster does strike Labour on May 7th the party may have to conclude that, however good the tunes it played during the election campaign, it just simply did not have a good enough organist to attract listeners’ attention.”
Meanwhile, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has the highest net approval rating across Britain of any political leader, just over a week before voters go to the polls.
That’s the finding of a poll conducted by TNS for the Herald newspaper in mid-April and published today.
It shows that across England, Wales and Scotland, Ms Sturgeon’s net approval rating is +33, a record for TNS. Following her is Nigel Farage on +12 and David Cameron on +7. Ed Miliband’s net approval rating stands at -8 whilst Nick Clegg is on -22.
When looking just at Scotland however, Ms Sturgeon has a net approval rating of +55, the only leader to have a net positive north of the border. She’s followed here by Ed Miliband on -2, David Cameron on -7. Nigel Farage on -15 and Nick Clegg on -34.
The findings are a reflection of the profile the SNP leader has secured nationwide as a result of the televised leaders debate, and will be seen within the party as a vindication of her strategy to embrace and woo the UK as a friend rather than an adversary.
Ed Jacobs is a contributing editor to Left Foot Forward. Follow him on Twitter
11 Responses to “SNP on course to gain all Scottish seats”
littleoddsandpieces
NO BIG PARTY OR THE SMALL ONES IN THE MEDIA EYE OFFER ANYTHING
BUT NIL STATE PENSION
As no big party or UKIP or The Greens offer me any state pension in life, after three decades in work and more, then it appears my petition will have to be direct to Ms Sturgeon after Thursday 7 May.
See why so many men and women are seeing the end of the state pension from Labour, Tories, UKIP, The Greens and especially the Lib Dems, as Pensions Minister was Lib Dems Mr Steve Webb, at end of my petition, in my WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT section:
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/state-pension-at-60-now
SERPS OPT OUT – THE SERPS NO-ONE HAS EVER HEARD OF, ESPECIALLY THE POOREST
The SERPs opt out will become far bigger than PPI, but is something we can do nothing about as it is government.
Just as we could do nothing against the wipe out of the Married Woman’s Stamp.
SERPs opt out will hit private and works pensions just as much.
SERPs (that became the State Second Pension – S2P – from 2002) is abolished from 6 April 2016, so the rise in national insurance contributions will not give the basic state pension and the SERPs top up as in the past.
So the promised (illusory) £155 per week state pension, is far below the basic state pension and SERPs not contracted out total of £278.10 per week.
SERPs opt out began on 6 April 1978, the exact same date SERPs began.
STURGEON FOR PRIME MINISTER
So yes, please vote SNP in Scotland.
Then maybe start a petition to make Ms Sturgeon Prime Minister.
VOTE OUT PRIME MINISTER
CAMERON
Witney voting area
Tories won with 33,973 votes
20,997 did not vote
7,511 votes wasted on Labour
11,233 votes wasted on Lib Dems
VOTE WITNEY:
National Health Action
Clive Peedell
Consultant cancer specialist,
founder and co-leader of NHA Party,
on BMA council,
chair of NHS Consultants’ Association.
VOTE OUT MILIBAND – LABOUR LEADER
VOTE TUSC candidate
Mary Jackson
DONCASTER NORTH
19,637 Labour win in 2010
30,198 did not vote
Total Voters 71,681
MEET YOUR CANDIDATE!
MEET TUSC MP CANDIDATE
MARY JACKSON
Tuesday 5th May,
7-00pm
Danum Hotel,
High Street,
Doncaster DN1 1DN
Speakers include:
Mary Jackson
TUSC candidate for
Doncaster North
Steve Williams TUSC candidate for
Don Valley
Mev Akram TUSC candidate for
Doncaster Central.
THIS ELECTION IS BOGUS
http://www.anastasia-england.me.uk
The 6th biggest party, TUSC, should be getting fair media coverage in national press and TV news.
Not even The New Statesman makes any mention of TUSC.
TUSC is the Labour party I voted for all my life, my father did, my grandparents did.
TUSC is the sacked by Labour party for voting against austerity cuts.
TUSC is even the sacked by Maggie Thatcher for defying cuts as an entire council.
THE WORKING CLASS ARE THE BULK OF THE NON-VOTERS
All the so-called big parties offer just more starvation to the poor, that are 70 per cent of the population now disenfranchised.
UKIP is a Tory party.
The Greens ran away from all the policies that would have stopped starvation from May.
VOTE OUT THE 1 GREEN – GET 3 PROPER SOCIALISTS MPs
The 1 Green MP in Brighton could be voted out, and 3 proper socialists MPs brought into UK parliament.
THREE VOTING AREAS IN BRIGHTON
BRIGHTON PAVILIONS
Vote out the 1 Green
VOTE
Socialist (GB)
Howard Pilott
16,238 votes The Greens win in 201
22,175 did not vote
The Greens ran away from policies to help the poor, and voted with the Tories for austerity cuts on Brighton council.
HOVE
(by Brighton)
TUSC
Dave Hill
18,294 Tory win in 2010
21,901 did not vote in 2010
Meet the TUSC candidate:
Brighton Public meeting
8.00 PM Thursday 30th April Phoenxi Community Centre, Phoenix Place, BN2 9ND
BRIGHTON KEMPTOWN
Socialist (GB) candidate
Jacqueline Shodeke
16,217 Tory win in 2010
23,310 did not vote in 2010
Claimant Count 9360
THERE ARE OTHER PARTIES AS WELL, THAT COULD HAVE BROUGHT IN OVER 150 NEW MPS GUARANTEED ANTI AUSTERITY IN ENGLAND, TO ADD TO SNP AND PLAID CYMRU, NEARLY 250 MPS equal in number to either Tory or Labour:
http://www.anastasia-england.me.uk
TN
Heaven help us if Sturgeon has the whip hand over a weak Labour-led government. The left might spout all this bollocks about the coalition, but the fact is that they’ve tried weaning the country off this high tax welfare hellhole that the SNP want to restore. We’re facing potentially one of the worst downturns if Labour and the SNP have any kind of power after next week with their “all must have prizes” shit.
Grim times.
Cole
Boring Tory hysteria. Who care about this Daily Mail nonsense?
TN
Its large readership perhaps? Compared to the miniscule numbers of people reading this blog. It is not hysteria when the people who have to pick up the tab for costly left wing policies are those who run businesses (of various sizes), work long hours and pay the lion’s share of tax.
uglyfatbloke
John Curtice says the leadership might be part of the problem? More breaking news….the world may be spherical.