[SCOT goes POP!] Sensation as new Find Out Now poll shows clear majority of Scottish public want independence

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Sensation as new Find Out Now poll shows clear majority of Scottish public want independence

Thank you to a commenter on the previous thread for alerting me to the fact that The National are reporting a new Find Out Now poll, commissioned by the Alba Party, which shows a Yes lead of four points. 

Should Scotland be an independent country?  (Find Out Now / Alba Party, 11th-24th January 2024)

Yes 52%

No 48%

In spite of the cynicism that greets any Find Out Now poll commissioned by a pro-independence client, the reality is that the results have to be regarded as credible - Find Out Now are affiliated to the British Polling Council and I know from direct personal experience that they take the BPC's rules and guidelines extremely seriously.  They have previously been commissioned to conduct an independence poll by a unionist newspaper, namely the Daily Express, and as with the subsequent polls for pro-independence clients, that one showed a Yes lead.  So perhaps the cynicism should really be directed at the fact that the Express didn't use them again after getting the "wrong" results (although no less a unionist figure than Blair McDougall did give them the seal of approval by commissioning a poll from them last year).

Nevertheless, the information about the new poll is limited at this stage - there's nothing yet on Find Out Now's website or Twitter account or even on Alba's own news page.  So I'll just be a tad cautious until I'm able to doublecheck that the standard independence question was asked (I expect it was, though) and also that the numbers in the data tables tally up with what we're seeing today.  There was a strange discrepancy between the data tables in the last Find Out Now poll and what had been published several days earlier by the client (Independent Voices) - there may well have been an innocent explanation for that, but hopefully this time the Yes lead will prove to be beyond dispute.

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I am standing tomorrow (Saturday) as a candidate for the Alba Party's Finance & Audit Committee, Disciplinary Committee, Appeals Committee, Conferences Committee and Constitutional Review Group.  If you're a National Council delegate I'd be grateful if you'd consider me (James Kelly) for a vote.  You can read more details HERE.

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