Thanks, I know I’ve been a bit of a pain about it but we are increasingly two seperate countries and the dearth of data is annoying.

It must be really frustrating for people in specific regions of England, like the North or South West, who have a dstinctive politics but very rarely
get any specific information on their area.

I quite like the idea of the German system of 5,000 plus member polls where you have decent regional samples.

Lets home Yougov gets to a 50,000 panel some time soon so that we can get more accurate national figures and meaningful regional ones ( although as you all know Scotland isn’t a region it’s a country……..)

Peter.

The SNP commissioned one from YouGov in September, but Yougov haven’t put up the full results. I was hoping for one this week seeing as it’s our conference, but no such luck.

If it keeps up like this I am just going to get the phone book and phone up 2,000 people.

Peter.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2200304,00.html

He covers similar ground to me here in the past in argueing that the SNP offers traditional Labour voters an option they just don’t have in England.

With the UK LibDems getting squeezed and seeming to move to the right (and losing their second Scottish party leader), it’s perhaps not surprising that they have been recording single figures in Scotland.

However as we haven’t had a decent poll for some time up here or seen the details from the YouGov SNP poll at the end of the conferences in England, we’ll just have to hope that we get one to coincide with the SNP conference.

Peter.