Today’s Daily Record has a “shock” poll revealing what this site told you a week and a half ago – namely that just under half of Scots want a second referendum on Brexit. (Our Panelbase poll said 46%, the Record’s YouGov one says 48%.)
Amusingly, the paper describes this minority as “overwhelming support” for another vote, and runs an editorial leader demanding that Labour and the SNP unite to back such a proposal.
And, y’know, we may as well make the obvious point.
Because that 48% is slightly LOWER than the 51% of Scots who also told our poll that they wanted another independence referendum within a few years, before the end of the next Scottish Parliament term.
But the Record puts a slightly different spin on results like that.
Far from running an editorial demanding a second indyref, the paper focused on the people opposed to the idea and wrote that “the Survation poll suggests any move towards IndyRef2 would still leave Sturgeon facing a backlash from the public”.
So let’s just recap:
Roughly half of Scots in favour of a new vote on something the Record wants: “overwhelming support”
Roughly half of Scots in favour of a new vote on something the Record DOESN’T want: “a backlash from the public”
Glad we cleared that up.
