55% YES / 45% NO – Landmark poll reverses 2014 Indyref result

[Albannach]

A new poll by Panelbase, commissioned as part of a series of ongoing polls by Business for Scotland, has found support for independence has reached 55%, with No to independence falling to 45%.

This landmark poll shows that public opinion has flipped and the 2014 independence referendum result has been reversed, with Yes surging to a 10% lead.

Gordon MacIntyre-Kemp, CEO of Business for Scotland and the grass roots independence campaign Believe in Scotland, welcomed the poll result and said:

“The reversal of the 2014 result is a huge landmark; 55% Yes will send shockwaves throughout the political world. There is no conclusion to draw from this new set of data other than the writing is very definitely on the wall for the union.”

MacIntyre-Kemp added: “Our June poll found independence support at 54%. That poll changed the dynamic of the constitutional conversation and led to claims of panic in the Westminster cabinet, with a series of high profile Tory visits to Scotland. We also saw the effective firing of the Conservative leader in Scotland and the Westminster Government doubling down on its undemocratic threat to deny referendum after an SNP majority. However, none of that frenetic activity seems to have helped the union, if anything it has made things worse.

“This poll is important when you consider that Yes Campaign started at 27% and grew to 45% support over the period of the campaign.

“The referendum that will be demanded following May 2021 Holyrood elections, on these figures, would start with Yes to independence commanding a 10% lead. Independence is now significantly the majority decision of the people of Scotland and its momentum looks solid.”

A combination of events (below) has created what looks like an unstoppable momentum for Yes support and more and more people are coming to Believe in Scotland.

The impending end of the Brexit transition period
The gulf in performance on the COVID-19 crisis between Holyrood and Westminster and in the speed of correcting the relative exam results errors problems
The undemocratic and unsustainable threat to deny the settled and growing will of the Scottish people for a new referendum
Those messages being conveyed every day over social media and face to face (where possible) by the hundreds of thousands of grassroots independence activists across Scotland.

The latest polls reveal an astonishing 80% of under-25s back independence, while 71% of 25-34 year-olds and 60% of 35-54 year-olds would also vote Yes.

While we still have a lot of work to do in convincing the most elderly age group – the over-65s – their support for Yes has, on average, moved up by 10 points since January to around 35%.

According to several polls carried out in 2020, there is now a consistent majority in favour of independence.

[Rocinante]

Do you seek independence from the UK?

[Graham]

Has been going up since the English voted the clown in.


Most Scots hate a proper Tory.

[The Lawspeaker]

To have the SNP in charge of an independent Scotland would be even worse than having the Tories in control of a Scotland that's part of the UK. Look at the Continent to see what the Left and their Liberal shills are up to.

[Albannach]

To have the SNP in charge of an independent Scotland would be even worse than having the Tories in control of a Scotland that's part of the UK. Look at the Continent to see what the Left and their Liberal shills are up to.

The SNP will dissolve eventually after independence anyway, they are a vehicle for independence, nothing more nothing less. With independence at least Scots will actually get the government they vote for, unlike the current situation where we get anti-Scottish English nationalist Tory governments foistered on us by the English electorate. Not to mention nuclear subs situated 23 miles from our biggest city and then, of course, there's Brexit.

[Graham]

[The Lawspeaker]

The SNP will dissolve eventually after independence anyway, they are a vehicle for independence, nothing more nothing less. With independence at least Scots will actually get the government they vote for, unlike the current situation where we get anti-Scottish English nationalist Tory governments foistered on us by the English electorate. Not to mention nuclear subs situated 23 miles from our biggest city and then, of course, there's Brexit.

Or so they claim. No party has ever dissolved itself peacefully after the goal has been attained.

[Rocinante]

Do you seek independence from the UK?

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[Albannach]

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Yes, I thought that would be obvious from my post.

[Rocinante]

Yes, I thought that would be obvious from my post.

Well, i just found this interesting. You mind explain why you seek Scotland independence? I know it might be because Scotland were a solid nation before the british consolidation, but i want to know your point of view, also of other scottish members.