Patrick Noubissie

SG publish the NHS Covid absence figures. Daily average of 7k (4%) last week. That's just for Covid-related reasons though. I'm not sure where folk are seeing 1/3 off but that's definitely not official data.

Okay, will do. It’s been every bit the disaster that people said it would be.

Agreed. Mr Furlough/VAT Moneybags Sunak will be in soon and there will be a respectable enough figure in place for the media/public to go back to not caring about cronyism and corruption. Also agreed. If Labour seem like a credible option for the anti-Tory contrarian vote, it's bound to hurt the SNP. Incidentally, I can't remember the last time I heard a woman up here talk about politics who doesn't absolutely love Sturgeon (not my first choice of conversation topic with the galdem but we move). It seems the gender divide seen under Salmond's leadership has done a full 180 since.

Yikes. Westminster voting intention: LAB: 38% (+1) CON: 28% (-5) LDEM: 13% (+3) GRN: 7% (+1) REFUK: 4% (-1) via @YouGov Labour 331 Conservatives 195 Lib Dems 44 SNP 52 Greens 1

Mind when Davidson got a bit carried away thinking she had enough clout to slag BoJo and ended up killing off her political career. I think Ross has more accurately assessed Johnson as a sitting duck this time to be fair. Even then, the reaction from London completely undermines Scotland's role in the union, which is his only policy. Fuds.

I agree they've had a mare of the last six months. I'm not so sure it's having the impact people on here think/hope though. I mean it might well be but I haven't seen any real evidence of them losing votes yet. Football forums aren't exactly a representative sample of the population.

That ONS link there will be the justification given for the last few weeks. Rightly or wrongly, the fact that Scotland, Wales and NI exactly match each other and England is on it's own with a worse rate will be the argument that restrictions have worked. With any luck as a get out excuse to roll them back, rather than to say they work and need to stay.

It'll be interesting to see if this party stuff sticks and makes any difference in the next few weeks. Westminster Voting Intention: LAB: 37% (=) CON: 33% (+1) LDM: 11% (-2) GRN: 5% (=) SNP: 4% (=) Via @SavantaComRes, 7-9 Jan Labour - 283 Tories - 273 Lib Dems - 19 Green - 1 SNP - 53 Plaid - 3 NI - 18 Westminster voting intention: LAB: 39% (+1) CON: 35% (-) LDEM: 12% (+2) GRN: 5% (-) REFUK: 4% (-) via @RedfieldWilton, 10 Jan Labour - 284 Tories - 272 Lib Dems - 18 Greens - 1 SNP - 55 Plaid - 2 NI - 18

The moralising over moving his wife there is a funny take. You would think this is the kind of decision they would make together. If it's entirely up to him to make her sack off her career and move to the middle east, then it isn't the Saudi regime that's created a repressive environment for Mrs Boyle.