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I've heard that our resident unionist troll KC is running a competition to find the most compelling answer to the question: "What are the benefits of Scotland becoming an independent country?" KC, please consider this video to be my entry to the competition. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like these videos, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

Of all people, it's the controversial journalist David Leask - "Mr Controversy" himself - who has decided to tackle the controversy over Scottish independence polling methodology for The Times. But the article raises more questions than it answers, not least because YouGov seems to have refused to give Leask any details about its methodology. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

As promised, here is a quick update on how I fared in the SNP's internal elections last month. Basically I've been elected to one of the four committees that I stood for, namely the Conduct Appeals Committee. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP

Panic over, chaps: the "Reverend" Stew Campbell says that Tucker Carlson will definitely be proved wrong about Donald Trump's possible plans to use a nuclear weapon against Iran at Benjamin Netanyahu's instigation. Just one snag, though: the "Reverend" Stew Campbell also assured us that Humza Yousaf would definitely lose the 2023 SNP leadership election, that pro-independence parties had no chance "barring an alien invasion" of winning a majority of seats in the 2026 Holyrood election, and that Angus Robertson was a dead cert to hold Edinburgh Central. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

Smarting after two years of a polling average showing a clear majority in favour of Scottish independence, the Daily Express claim they have a poll showing that 51% of Scots want to remain in the UK. But closer inspection reveals one or two small snags with this "poll". The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

The SETTLED WILL KLAXON is having ELEVENSES because, yes, we're now up to eleven Norstat polls in succession putting Yes in the lead on the Scottish independence question. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

The BBC have chronically underfunded Scottish-made content for decades. So when cuts have to be made and priorities have to be selected, where do the BBC decide the flab is? Whereabout in Britain do they think they've just been far too generous in the past and that it's only fair that people will have to put up with an even poorer service? Why, Scotland of course! It's just been announced that the BBC Scotland channel is being abolished. The BBC had better hope they don't find themselves in need of friends in the future, because they certainly won't find many in Scotland. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the help the channel to continue, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

There have now been TWO Survation polls in the space of just a few days showing that Scotland wants to be an independent country - and in the second one the Yes majority is even bigger. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

At this week's SNP internal elections, taking place as part of the party conference in Aberdeen, I will be standing for re-election to the Policy Development Committee, and also for election to the National Executive Committee, the Conferences Committee and the Conduct Appeals Committee. My pitch is simple: I believe we have a duty of honour to the people who took us literally when we solemnly promised them ten years ago that we give them the chance to make another decision on independence in view of the material change of circumstances caused by Scotland being dragged out of the EU against its will. It is now long past time for us to belatedly make good on that promise.

Some thoughts on the deeply disturbing BBC radio interview in which Nick Robinson demanded that Green leader Zack Polanski agree that Israelis have a right to a safe homeland, and Polanski answered in the affirmative - but Robinson didn't recognise it as an answer because he seemed to be starting from the preconception that an Israeli homeland only counts as 'real' if Israel gets to expel Palestinians from it or oppress Palestinians within it. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

Andrew Bowie's announcement that a UK Tory government would impose new nuclear power stations in Scotland means that the Tories will be stripping planning powers from the Scottish Parliament, which have been devolved since right from the start in 2014. This constitutes a clear repudiation of The Vow, which promised that the Scottish Parliament was "permanent" and would be granted "extensive new powers". A million miles from any sense of permanence or entrenchment, the Scottish Parliament now looks like an extraordinarily vulnerable institution that is subject to having its powers arbitrarily stripped away at any time. The case for revisiting the referendum result of 2014, which was secured on an utterly false prospectus, has never been more overwhelming. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

Just when you thought it was safe to take a nice day out in the Southern Uplands, or the Lake District, or the Yorkshire Dales, our old pal Rory Stewart has made the whole thing seem a lot more scary once again by lumping all these places together and rebranding them as a Game Of Thrones-style fantasy medieval kingdom called "The Middleland". It's a wheeze he first dreamt up in the run-up to the 2014 Scottish independence referendum in order to hoodwink people into thinking the south of Scotland is not "really" Scottish and is instead part of a "middle" grey zone along with a big chunk of the north of England, and can thus only really be described as "British". Just one snag - none of this has any basis in historical fact. The territory Rory claims as being part of "The Middleland" was actually split in medieval times between the Brythonic-speaking Kingdom of Strathclyde (part of what Welsh people call their Hen Ogledd, meaning Old North) and the Old English-speaking Germanic kingdom of Northumbria. Far from jointly representing some sort of unified pan-British culture, the peoples of those two entities wouldn't even have been able to communicate with each other unless they happened to speak a bit of Latin. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

It's official: Andy Burnham has introduced a new time zone in Scotland. Or presumably he must have done, because how else can we explain that he thinks the 2014 independence referendum was basically last week and can't possibly be revisited, but that it's totes cool to consider overturning the UK-wide EU referendum result of 2016, because that was TEN YEARS AGO and that's SUCH a long time? How much more blatant does the hypocrisy need to get before journalists start asking the obvious questions? The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

In what must be one of the most despicable stunts in any party leader's conference speech, Andy Burnham today attempted to use the recent loss of his father to guilt-trip the people of Scotland into thinking they had to just accept him trampling all over their democratic rights to choose their own country's future. I don't think he'll get away with it, and in this video I explain why. The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp

Whatever anyone may think of Robin McAlpine's views, he is usually a master of fact and of detail. So it is something of a jolt to see him make two massive howlers about SNP independence strategy in his most recent piece. Is it really possible that he could be so poorly informed about something as fundamental as this? Or are we being gaslighted? The home of Scot Goes Pop can be found at: https://scotgoespop.blogspot.com If you like this content, please subscribe to my YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/@JamesKellySGP And if you'd like to help the channel continue to grow, donations are welcome at my Ko-Fi page: https://ko-fi.com/jameskellysgp