[SCOT goes POP!] Good evening, Unionist Twitter. So, after two weeks and a massive SNP lead on three separate voting intention questions, you've finally noticed the poll, have you?

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Good evening, Unionist Twitter.  So, after two weeks and a massive SNP lead on three separate voting intention questions, you've finally noticed the poll, have you?

Even Panelbase https://t.co/YOchFx7D1q

— Blair McDougall (@blairmcdougall) November 13, 2021

"Even Panelbase."
McDougall is really demeaning himself with that tweet - it echoes the nastiest and most wretched of Brit Nat trolls who peddle conspiracy theories about Panelbase, which in fact produces independence results typical of most firms.https://t.co/ShcwmLBxwZ

— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) November 13, 2021

In fact, if anything, Panelbase was (along with YouGov) on the No-friendly end of the spectrum until around 2018 or 2019. "Even Ipsos-Mori" might make a bit of sense, because Ipsos-Mori are perhaps the closest thing to a Yes-friendly pollster.

— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) November 13, 2021

But for whatever reason, the Brit Nat nutters which McDougall has shamefully associated himself with reserve their ire for Panelbase not Ipsos-Mori.

— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) November 13, 2021

Panelbase, *and* the old 2014 affirmation bias question... https://t.co/jchZDDaKsZ

— Alastair Cameron 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 (@HappyBritScot) November 13, 2021

Apologies, HappyBritScot, but I'm afraid your pathetic attempts to rig the indyref question are unlikely to gain any more traction with the Electoral Commission than they have thus far with polling companies (with one notable exception).

— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) November 13, 2021

Indeed. Yes is further behind with Panelbase than 7 years ago.

— Blair McDougall (@blairmcdougall) November 13, 2021

And here Blair is demonstrating himself to be either clueless or dishonest about polling methods. Pre-indyref Panelbase polls are not comparable with current Panelbase polls for one simple and obvious reason: after the indyref, weighting by recalled indyref vote was introduced.

— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) November 13, 2021

Why did it have to be introduced? To correct for the fact that the polls had systemically overestimated Yes. Doh!

— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) November 13, 2021

Scotland had its poll last year

— Wllliam Hayes PgDip (@WllliamHayes) November 13, 2021

This is perhaps my favourite ever tweet. In one sleepy part of Unionist Twitter, it will forever be 2015.https://t.co/QbK9tdF8fz

— James Kelly (@JamesKelly) November 13, 2021

If I'd known the villain of #Pounds4McDougallgate and his chums were going to get so over-excited, I would have made the obvious point last night - that the Scot Goes Pop / Panelbase poll actually has slightly older fieldwork than the Scotsman / Savanta ComRes poll, which showed a narrower No lead and no change whatsoever from the previous ComRes poll.  It was also markedly better for the Yes side than ComRes polling back in the spring.  So there are very good reasons for thinking that the Yes vote is holding up, and that the statistically insignificant 1% decrease with Panelbase that Blair is hyperventilating about is just meaningless margin of error noise.

Source: Good evening, Unionist Twitter.  So, after two weeks and a massive SNP lead on three separate voting intention questions, you've finally noticed the poll, have you?