THINGS AREN'T LOOKING GOOD FOR LABOUR OR THE LIBERALS

Two interesting polls on UK voting intentions today:

From the Sun/YouGov poll:

Labour 37
Conservatives 36
Ukip 11
Lib Dems 9

That would give Labour a majority of 8.

From the Mail on Sunday/Survation poll:

Labour 35
Conservatives 34
Ukip 15
Lib Dems 9

That would give Labour a majority of 4.

Neither these majorities is workable in the long term by anything but the most skilled politician with his party behind him 100%. That's hardly a description of Miliband.

Four years into a government of Tory Spivs and their lapdogs, this is an untenable position for Labour and I'm imagining, utterly unrepresentative of Scotland's view.

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And bad news for the Scottish Secretary:

THOSE favouring Scottish independence ended up comfortably outnumbering those backing the union following a two-hour debate at the Althing in Tingwall Hall in Shetland on Saturday night.

Debating the motion “The time is right for Scottish independence” were SNP list MSP Mike Mackenzie and Scottish secretary Alistair Carmichael.

At the outset the 150-strong audience were almost split down the middle, with 58 backing independence and 57 preferring to remain within the UK, while 31 were undecided.

Come the night’s end, a sizeable swing had seen the number favouring independence rise to 70 while support for the union fell to 48, leaving 22 still to make up their minds.

Mackenzie and Carmichael were backed, respectively, by local SNP activist Danus Skene while the No team had to rely on  the Conservatives’ Perthshire-based European election hopeful Dr Ian Duncan.

And all this in an island we were told would want to become part of England if Scotland broke away.
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And some good news about the EU membership:

European expert Graham Avery has confirmed that the European Union would be strengthened by Scotland’s continued membership after a Yes vote – which he describes as a “common sense” position.

Mr Avery, an honorary Director-General of the European Commission and senior adviser at the European Policy Centre in Brussels, made clear that Scotland’s continued membership of the EU will enhance the EU’s position on the international stage – and that the EU’s attitude towards Scotland would be one of “pragmatic acceptance”.

Mr Avery has also confirmed that it would be “common sense” for Scotland to maintain its EU membership from day one of independence – as advocated by the Scottish Government.
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Yep... that sums him up!