The UK General Election next year is likely to result in either a Conservative or Labour government in Westminster. Regardless of how you intend to vote, which do you think would be best for Scotland, a Conservative government in Westminster, or a Labour Government?

Conservative Government
Labour Government
Both the same (DO NOT READ OUT)
Don’t know

Do you feel that this question is somewhat loaded?

Particularly since the third question should not be read out loud. I mean surely it would be better to not read out any of the answers and ask…

The UK General Election next year is likely to result in either a Conservative or Labour government in Westminster. Regardless of how you intend to vote, which do you think would be best for Scotland?

Ipsos Mori also seem to reduce the difference between Holyrood and Westminster voting intentions. The Conservatives seem stuck in their 2005 general election result. It would be interesting to see if their vote is becoming regionalised in the marginals as some suggest here.

I wonder why the Tories chose not to publicise Scots views of Cameron?

“Please tell me whether you have a very favourable, favourable, unfavourable or very unfavourable opinion of David Cameron?”

Very favourable – 4% : Favourable – 48% : Unfavourable – 33% : Very unavourable – 15%.

The other questions were as leading as one might have guessed.

Unless they cough up some actual polling figures and tables to prove it, I’d always advise people to ignore what political parties *claim* their private polling shows.