By a Newsnet reporter
The Scottish National Party has today welcomed a new opinion poll published by Angus Reid, in which the breakdown for Scotland has put the party on 47% in voting intentions for Westminster, a full 13 points ahead of the Labour party.
The survey also shows all three UK leaders unpopular in Scotland with David Cameron rejected by over three quarters of Scots.
The figures, taken from a sub sample of 185 respondents, comes on the first day of the SNP’s Spring Conference in Glasgow.
SNP Campaign Director Angus Robertson welcomed the results and claimed it showed the party’s support was holding firm since last year’s Holyrood election:
“We go into this year’s conference in upbeat mood as party members from across Scotland gather in Glasgow – making it our biggest ever Spring Conference.” he said.
Mr Robertson highlighted the party’s growing membership numbers and added:
“We also gather as our party membership continues to rise – with nearly 2,400 new members since the New Year – a 12 per cent increase.
“Last year in Glasgow we were preparing for what became a historic result in May with the election of the first ever majority SNP Government.
“We won last year’s elections, we are working hard to win this year’s local government elections for the people of Scotland and we are working to win the referendum for Scotland’s future.
“And yet again all three UK leaders – Miliband, Cameron and Clegg – score negative ratings in Scotland.
“While they continue to offer nothing but negativity, the SNP is committed to giving the people of Scotland what they want – a positive vision of our country’s future.
According to the pollster, over three-in-four Scots (77%) – hold unfavourable views on the Conservative Prime Minister. Mr Cameron’s approval rating across the UK as a whole was 36%, with Labour leader Ed Miliband continuing to struggle on 29%.
The Scottish sub sample of 185 people should be treated with caution and has an increased margin of error over the accepted minimum participant numbers of around 1000. However the size of the SNP lead, at 13% for a Westminster election, is significant enough to cause concern for Scottish Labour as the parties gear up for the local elections this May.
The results of the Scottish element of the poll will also cause major concern for Lib Dem leader Willie Rennie whose party have now slipped to just 5%, lower than for ‘others’.
The results of the Angus Reid poll breakdown for Scotland was as follows:
The poll by Angus Reid Public Opinion was conducted an online survey among 2,018 adults (185 in Scotland) from March 6 to March 7, 2012.
Details of the survey can be downloaded from here: http://www.angus-reid.com/polls/44432/labour-gains-in-britain-as-disapproval-for-cameron-and-clegg-rises/
BBC Scotland’s Brian Taylor interviewing SNP Depute leader Nicola Sturgeon: bbc.co.uk/…/…
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How odd
NICOLA LINK working if you enter BBC via
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As I have said on another post this is not working so is the BBC at it nothing showing on there site as well.
I have just watched this by going in through the BBC website rather than using the link, which admittedly does not work, so it can be accessed thru News-Scotland-Scotland politics.
Maybe a bit late in life, when pushin’ the big five ‘0’,
Welcome to that family as well Macart. 😀
Macart 2012-03-10 12:39
Maybe a bit late in life, when pushin’ the big five ‘0’,
Sixty is the new middle-age. you are but a stripling yet.
Sixty is the new middle-age. you are but a stripling yet.
Brilliant!! I’m young again…. thanks Legerwood. 🙂
Sixty is the new middle-age. you are but a stripling yet.
I’m just out of nappies then! 😀
Conference on BBC2 at 2 – 4pm.
THANKS. BBC–Oh dear.
Thanks anyway.
Hope the Gremlins don’t return!
For those who can’t quite bring themselves to watch the Blubber and co on EBC the webcast appears to be up and running OK.
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WEBCAST running.Thanks Arbroath1320.
Just put those figures into the link Scotfree supplied above.
Oh if wishes were fishes, we’d all cast nets….
Gurney Hallek, if I recall.
Despite there being a Scottish government back in Edinburgh now since 1999 the polling organisations still haven’t got to grips with this concept!
And not only the polling orgs Ab as we well know – there are other Ostrich’s standing around with their derriere’s exposed.
What a delightful experience for camaramen the SNP conference must have been. At all the other party conferences they were restricted to cropped shots to disguise the pathetic attendences but at the SNP conference it was wide angled lenses all the way!
Aye, Labour were bussing in members from the North of England, to have an audience!