This is from an SNP press release.

The SNP’s Depute Leader and Deputy First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has
welcomed the results of the TNS-BMRB (formerly TNS System 3) poll
conducted for STV’s Politics Now programme which shows that the SNP would boost their number of seats at Holyrood to 57 – an increase of ten.

The results of the poll are:

* Constituency result (with change from 2007 in bracket)

SNP: 39% (+6)
Labour: 32% (0)
Tory: 12% (-5)
LibDem: 11% (-5)
Other: 7% (+5)

* Regional result (with change from 2007 in bracket)

SNP: 39% (+8)
Labour: 29% (0)
Tory: 10% (-4)
LibDem: 12% (+1)
Green: 5% (+1)

Projected Number of Seats:

SNP: 57 (+10)
Labour: 43 (-3)
Tory: 11 (-6)
LibDem: 15 (-1)
Green: 3 (+2)

Q1 Since the Scottish Parliament was established in 1999 do you think it
has achieved a lot, a little or nothing at all?

A lot – 20%
A little – 53%
Nothing at all – 15%
Don’t know – 12%

Note:

The results of Q1 can be compared with a MORI Scotland poll question
commissioned by ‘Politics Now’ in September 2004 to mark the opening of
the Holyrood building. The wording was the same:

Since the Scottish Parliament was established in 1999 do you think it has
achieved a lot, a little or nothing at all?

A lot – 8%
A little – 49%
Nothing at all – 36%
Don’t know – 7%

Peter.

Scot not in UK or EU – 11%
Scot not in UK in EU – 22%
Scot in UK with tax power – 50%
Scot in UK and no tax power – 7%
Scot in UK, no parliament – 10%

(Weighted and percentages rounded)

Both RJP and Max King have talked about the positive recognition of the UK worldwide. But this is inaccurate. Many people see Britain, like America, as an unwanted imperialistic force. This has increased greatly in recent years due to the government of both countries approach to the war in Iraq. The UK has for a fews decades now become a second-rate power, not a potent world power.

Scotland is certainly not going to go without money. Whether its economy will get better or worse, on the other hand, is a valid question. And I think Scotland will follow Ireland’s example in getting better.

On a Conservative government making the problem better:
Conservatives have never had a high percentage in Scotland. The only parties to ever be the major party in Scotland are Labour and, since 2007, SNP. And it doesn’t look to change to the Conservatives any time soon. There have already been several governments of the UK that were Conservative though but these were rarely popular in Scotland.

On the EU being a dictatorship that makes 90% of your laws(RJP):The UK is already a part of the EU. Does that mean that 90% of UK law is made in Brussels? Because that’s wrong. There are many things on which the EU doesn’t have laws. These things are either dealt with at a Scotland(e.g. age of marriage) or UK level (e.g. military).

On the UK stopping dictators:
Well, they didn’t do anything to stop Augusto Pinochet, who was helped into power by America. And going back to the 19th century or further gives countless examples of abuse by the British Empire.

Anonymous:
Greece becoming “voiceless, powerless, and useless nation” (I find that’s exagerration in any case) is more to do with the military might of the Ottoman Empire of the time than because of Greeks being nationalistic. How is loving Britain any less nationalistic than being Scottish nationalist?

And governments like those of Stalin are hardly caring much about nationalism. Doesn’t make them any less evil.

I don’t see independence as about negative sentiments but about a country deciding for itself whatit wants to do.