SNP overtake Labour - in Glasgow

A YouGov opinion poll has put the SNP ahead of Labour in voting intentions for Holyrood. This is across Glasgow, where this has never happened before. Tartan Hero has the full rundown.

While the poll is for the Scottish Parliament, it shows how the message of the SNP is resonating in areas where it never has before. It's also great news for myself and my Westminster candidate colleagues in the city.

Comments

[Ted]

Was the YouGov poll commissioned by the SNP, Osama?

Given that Labour held all but one of the Glasgow seats in the Scottish elections a mere 7 months ago, it's difficult to see how the SNP could be the biggest party in Glasgow in such a short space of time.

[Osama]

It is indeed astonishing Ted, but not too good to be true. The SNP have been doing really well, and Labour have been doing particularly badly.

True, the SNP did commission it, but that doesn't mean it's inaccurate. If you have a comment on the methodology then spell it out. I guess the party would have taken the view that they would do a poll knowing that they would be doing really well from it. Doesn't make the figures untrue.

[Ted]

I've no comment on the methodology, Osama, other than to say that I'd be surprised if a political party ever commissioned, and then released, an opinion poll that was detrimental to their cause.

I would expect some upsurge in support of the SNP (though Salmond seems determined to destroy it) and a decline for Labour but I'd be amazed if the SNP took Glasgow at election time - and I'm not a Labour supporter. Stranger things have happened, I suppose.