Mourners honour ?political genius? Alex Salmond at Edinburgh service 30 Nov 2024 at 3:52pm Family and friends gathered for speeches and musical performances from the Proclaimers and Dougie MacLeanThe former prime minister Gordon Brown and the Scottish first minister, John Swinney, were among those...
political party, Scotland, United Kingdom Also known as: SNP Written by David Broughton Lecturer in Politics, School of European Studies, University of Wales, Cardiff. Author ofPublic Opinion Polling and Politics in Britainand others. David Broughton ...
Sturgeon’s politicalaspirationsemerged at an early age. She joined (1986) the Scottish National Party (SNP) in 1986 when she was age 16 and cited British Prime MinisterMargaret Thatcheras the reason for her involvement. On the one hand, Thatcher showed that a forceful woman could reach the ...
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Personally In my opinion it doesn’t stand water. I can see why the SNP leadership pursue it, but I doubt their reasons have anything to do with gaining Independence. Being a political party, they are behaving the way that all other political parties normally behave, that is because they ...
Since the election of a majority SNP government after the 2011 Holyrood elections, support for independence has risen. The promise of a referendum at some point during the current parliamentary term has meant that the issue has risen up the political agenda. The political dominance of the SNP an...
Citizen journalism was doing the job the professionals had singularly refused to do – they were policing the political arena. Indeed one of the ironies of the current coverage of Scottish politics is that at the same time the main stream media is turning a blind eye to the professio...
One reason monotonicity anomalies are of interest to social choice theorists is the paradoxical harm anomalies can demonstrate toward a political candidate or some voters. In this example it is understandable if candidate B, and voters who prefer B, feel treated unfairly by the outcome of the \(...
” Opinion polls in 2013 indicated clear sustained opposition to independence by margins ranging between three to two and two to one.Scotlandappeared to bepolarizedbetween supporters of the SNP, about 4 in 10 Scottish adults, who overwhelmingly backed independence, and the majority of Scots, who ...