“Finally, the Jocks will be off the payroll” announced Kelvin MacKenzie, the disgraced former editor of The Sun, in a tweet last week that would have had the boys in blue knocking had he said it about black people. But he may get his way.
Last week, Ipsos Mori recorded the highest level of support for independence in Scotland since the referendum: 58 per cent Yes against 42% No, with don’t knows excluded. In itself, one poll means little. But it is the ninth in a row to have shown support for independence increasing. The poll of polls is now reading exactly the reverse of 2014: 55% Yes against 45% No. Independence is becoming normalised; it is no longer strange and exotic.
Unionists console themselves that this is all Covid-related. So: Boris Johnson isn’t popular in Scotland, who knew? Also, Nicola Sturgeon has a one-hour party political broadcast every day at which to pump out her message. There can be no prospect of an independence referendum during a pandemic,…
