James Kelly

scotgoespop.blogspot.comMajority of Scots want independence, says ELEVENTH Norstat poll IN A ROW - even the SETTLED WILL KLAXON is ABSOLUTELY STAGGEREDAn audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . * * * If you'd like ...

Majority of Scots want independence, says ELEVENTH Norstat poll IN A ROW - even the SETTLED WILL KLAXON is ABSOLUTELY STAGGERED: scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/10/majo...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comMounting evidence that the SNP would be serious about using a hung parliament to get an independence referendum - but here's why that isn't sufficient as a strategyOver the last few days, several people have been asking how I fared in the SNP internal elections. As I explain in the video above, I'm p...

Mounting evidence that the SNP would be serious about using a hung parliament to get an independence referendum - but here's why that isn't sufficient as a strategy: scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/10/moun...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comThe BBC, realising they haven't betrayed Scotland quite hard enough yet, announce they are scrapping the BBC Scotland channel for good measureAn audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . * * * Just a reminde...

The BBC, realising they haven't betrayed Scotland quite hard enough yet, announce they are scrapping the BBC Scotland channel for good measure - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/10/the-...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comHow did we end up with such a poor media? STV can't even get the basics right on the bus franchise planI haven't watched any TV news over the last few days, so my main knowledge of the McGill's meltdown comes indirectly from social media, but ...

How did we end up with such a poor media? STV can't even get the basics right on the bus franchise plan - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/10/how-...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comGOD BLESS MOTHER NATURE! It's raining Survation polls showing Scotland wants to be an independent countryAn audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . * * * If you'd like to...

GOD BLESS MOTHER NATURE! It's raining Survation polls showing Scotland wants to be an independent country - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/10/god-...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comI'm standing in this week's SNP internal elections - I believe we have a duty of honour to the voters who took us seriously ten years ago when we made a solemn promise to give them another choice on i...An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE .

I'm standing in this week's SNP internal elections - I believe we have a duty of honour to the voters who took us seriously ten years ago when we made a solemn promise to give them another choice on independence in the light of Brexit: scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/10/im-s...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comNick Robinson and the dehumanisation of Palestinians demanded by official BBC discourseAn audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . * * * If you'd like ...

Nick Robinson and the dehumanisation of Palestinians demanded by official BBC discourse - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/10/nick...

Sky News goes full Pravda in its coverage of the Holborn & St Pancras by-election result - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/10/sky-...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comTories' plan to impose new nuclear power stations on Scotland means they have repudiated "The Vow"An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . * * * If you'd like ...

Tories' plan to impose new nuclear power stations on Scotland means they have repudiated "The Vow" - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/10/tori...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comWatch out for ORCS! Rory Stewart thrillingly brings back "The Middleland", by no popular demand - it's Our Pweshus Union's answer to Middle-EarthAn audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . * * * If you'd like ...

Watch out for ORCS! Rory Stewart thrillingly brings back "The Middleland", by no popular demand - it's Our Pweshus Union's answer to Middle-Earth: scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/10/watc...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comBurnham's TIME-BENDING hypocrisy: "It's fine for us to consider overturning the 2016 EU referendum result because that was TEN YEARS AGO, but we won't let Scots change their minds on how they voted in...An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . * * * If you'd like ...

Burnham's TIME-BENDING hypocrisy: "It's fine for us to consider overturning the 2016 EU referendum result because that was TEN YEARS AGO, but we won't let Scots change their minds on how they voted in the 2014 indyref because that was BASICALLY LAST WEEK" - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/10/burn...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comBurnham uses the loss of his father as an excuse for stripping Scotland of its democratic right to choose its own future, in a despicable conference speech stuntAn audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . * * * If you'd like ...

VIDEO: Burnham uses the loss of his father as an excuse for stripping Scotland of its democratic right to choose its own future, in a despicable conference speech stunt - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/09/burn...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comIs Robin McAlpine hallucinating, or is he trying to gaslight us?An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . * * * If you'd like ...

Is Robin McAlpine hallucinating, or is he trying to gaslight us? - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/09/is-r...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comYouGov MRP mega-poll shows SNP on course to hold BALANCE OF POWER at Westminster - and the right to hold independence referendums MUST be their price to keep Burnham as PMAn audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . * * * If you'd like to...

YouGov MRP mega-poll shows SNP on course to hold the BALANCE OF POWER at Westminster - and the right to hold independence referendums MUST be their price to keep Burnham as PM: scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/09/youg...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comHUGE milestone for Scottish independence as TENTH Norstat poll in a row shows Yes majority - and 68% of voters DEMAND a second independence referendumAn audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . * * * If you'd like ...

22 Sept

HUGE milestone for Scottish independence as TENTH Norstat poll in a row shows Yes majority - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/09/huge...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comWHO KNEW that the Brit Nats would be SO triggered by the mere idea of a totally hypothetical ferry from Scotland to Denmark?An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . * * * If you'd like ...

21 Sept

WHO KNEW that the Brit Nats would be SO triggered by the mere idea of a totally hypothetical ferry from Scotland to Denmark? - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/09/who-...

16 Sept

Labour slump to THIRD PLACE in Scottish subsample as Burnham's YouGov horror show continues - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/09/labo...

11 Sept

Burnham U-turns on the U-turn and reverts to the previous policy that Scotland *doesn't* have the same rights as Northern Ireland for "historical reasons". Is that code for "the UK government is punishing Scotland for being impeccably peaceful", Andy? - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/09/burn...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comBurnham's REVOLUTIONARY U-turn as he accepts Scotland can have an independence referendum if it wants one - but is this sudden outbreak of democracy FOR REAL?An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . * * * If you'd like ...

10 Sept

Burnham's REVOLUTIONARY U-turn as he accepts Scotland can have an independence referendum if it wants one - but is this sudden outbreak of democracy FOR REAL? Link to video below - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/09/burn...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comBurnham suffers more Scottish poll MISERY as SNP enjoy 17-point lead in YouGov subsampleAn audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . * * * If you'd like to...

9 Sept

Burnham suffers more Scottish poll MISERY as SNP enjoy 17-point lead in YouGov subsample - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/09/burn...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comA de facto referendum on independence would self-evidently not be "bonkers" - although you'd be forgiven for wondering if an edict has gone out to gaslight us into believing that it wouldThere has been just one occasion in history in which an integral part of the United Kingdom became an independent country, and it did not ha...

7 Sept

A de facto referendum on independence would self-evidently not be "bonkers" - although you'd be forgiven for wondering if an edict has gone out to gaslight us into believing that it would: scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/09/a-de...

scotgoespop.blogspot.com"Well THAT one was worth waiting for!": SNP have DOUBLE Labour's support in delayed YouGov subsampleA pro-independence blog by James Kelly - one of Scotland's three most-read political blogs.

2 Sept

"Well THAT one was worth waiting for!": SNP have DOUBLE Labour's support in delayed YouGov subsample - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/09/well...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comRevStew can squeal but *of course* the SNP have done the right thing by ruling out a deal with Reform UKThe most dispiriting aspect of the controversy surrounding Dave Doogan is that it's given the controversial Somerset-based "Stew" blogger an...

31 Aug

RevStew can squeal but *of course* the SNP have done the right thing by ruling out a deal with Reform UK - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/revs...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comThe refusal to allow a debate and vote on independence strategy at the SNP conference is reprehensible, and leaves a vacuum where strategy should beI initially assumed that the timing of the publication of a draft indyref bill was directly connected to the news having just broken that th...

29 Aug

The refusal to allow a debate and vote on independence strategy at the SNP conference is reprehensible, and leaves a vacuum where strategy should be - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comAnother Scottish polling disaster for Burnham: a majority of voters want Scotland to become an independent country, and the SNP have a FIFTEEN point lead over LabourSomeone asked on the previous comments thread whether it was true that a new Survation poll showed that Andy Burnham is the most popular pol...

27 Aug

Another Scottish polling disaster for Burnham: a majority of voters want Scotland to become an independent country, and the SNP have a FIFTEEN point lead over Labour - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/anot...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comThe BBC will ALWAYS be fearlessly neutral and even-handed and ask all the important "valid questions"...except on these four subjects, naturally* * * I'm still urgently trying to make progress towards my blogging and YouTube videos becoming financially sustainable. If you'd like t...

24 Aug

The BBC will ALWAYS be fearlessly neutral and even-handed and ask all the important "valid questions"...except on these four subjects, naturally - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comWarning - Danger - MASSIVE BLACK HOLE APPROACHING and Stew wants to chuck YOUR life savings straight into it - Please learn the lessons of the Dugdale debacle and ca' canny this timeProbably because I grew up during the period in which the Guildford Four and the Birmingham Six were released, I've always been deeply troub...

22 Aug

Warning - Danger - MASSIVE BLACK HOLE APPROACHING and Stew wants to chuck YOUR life savings straight into it - Please learn the lessons of the Dugdale debacle and ca' canny this time: scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/warn...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comConcerns mount that the "Scottish Daily Express" may be written by clueless Home Counties toffs, as paper launches bizarre crusade to stamp out the name Queensferry Bothy "because it's Gaelic"If it wasn't so outrageous, the latest anti-Gaelic rant from the Scottish Daily Express would be hysterically funny. The paper reports that...

22 Aug

Concerns mount that the "Scottish Daily Express" may be written by clueless Home Counties toffs, as paper launches bizarre crusade to stamp out the name Queensferry Bothy "because it's Gaelic" - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/conc...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comDouglas Alexander tacitly admits the choice for Labour is: a) change course on independence, or b) keep losing elections (and we already know it's b) because of the leadership contest stitch-up)My seven-day conventional text-blogging blitz to help promote my Ko-Fi fundraising page is now over, and it certainly wasn't a waste of ti...

21 Aug

Douglas Alexander tacitly admits the choice for Labour is: a) change course on independence, or b) keep losing elections (and we already know it's b) because of the leadership contest stitch-up): scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/doug...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comYouGov poll suggests Andy Burnham is faring about as well in Scotland as the Romans and Edward II didHistory doesn't record whether the Roman Emperor tried to win over the reluctant Caledonian tribes by setting up a "Senate North" somewhere ...

19 Aug

YouGov poll suggests Andy Burnham is faring about as well in Scotland as the Romans and Edward II did - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/youg...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comLiberation Scotland's wish to disenfranchise one million "incomers" - isn't that a rather sinister echo of Reform UK's language about deporting "strangers"?I was thinking of writing a blogpost tonight about the latest chapter in Stew's prolonged temper tantrum about the Crown Office impertinentl...

17 Aug

Liberation Scotland's wish to disenfranchise one million "incomers" - isn't that a rather sinister echo of Reform UK's language about deporting "strangers"?: scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/libe...

scotgoespop.blogspot.com"Yeah, you know that John Major guy? The Council of Europe FORCED him to give Scotland devolution. He only did it because they MADE him. FACT" - How Sara Salyers wrecked Salvo's credibility yesterd...As I said in a recent video , I've tried hard to remain open-minded about Salvo's approach to independence campaigning - not because I think...

17 Aug

"Yeah, you know that John Major guy? The Council of Europe FORCED him to give Scotland devolution. He only did it because they MADE him. FACT" - How Sara Salyers wrecked Salvo's credibility yesterday by trotting out a nutty, long-debunked claim: scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/yeah...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comSome free - and mostly sincere - advice for Scottish LabourScottish Labour have finally learned the lessons of two decades of defeats and realised what they need is another soul-crushing machine poli...

16 Aug

Some free - and mostly sincere - advice for Scottish Labour: scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/some...

15 Aug

Stew reacts badly to poll showing the SNP with a double-digit lead over Labour - let's fact-check his meltdown: scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/stew...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comSeven Days Of Retro Scot Goes Pop - a marathon of conventional text-blogging with comment pre-moderation switched OFF - yes, it's the fundraising gimmick to end them all - it's going to be mayhem - yo...Click here to go straight to my Ko-Fi donation page. Those of you who have been keeping an eye on the footer of each post will know I've bee...

14 Aug

Seven Days Of Retro Scot Goes Pop - a marathon of conventional text-blogging with comment pre-moderation switched OFF - yes, it's the fundraising gimmick to end them all - it's going to be mayhem: scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/seve...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comAnalysis of the very strange Clacton by-election resultJust a quick note to let you know that I was up early this morning to write an analysis piece about the Clacton by-election result for The N...

14 Aug

Analysis of the very strange Clacton by-election result - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/anal...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comThe Scottish REVOLUTION! Almost half of Scottish voters demand U.D.I. in history-making pollI now have seventeen regular monthly Ko-Fi supporters, thanks to another recent sign-up. I reckon if I could get up to several dozen mont...

13 Aug

The Scottish REVOLUTION! Almost half of Scottish voters demand U.D.I. in history-making poll - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comAnalysis of the first full-scale poll of Scottish voting intentions for Westminster of the Burnham eraJust a quick note to let you know I have a new article in The National about the freshly-released Westminster numbers from the paper's Find ...

13 Aug

Analysis of the first full-scale poll of Scottish voting intentions for Westminster of the Burnham era - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/anal...

11 Aug

Scotland wants OUT of Burnham's United Kingdom PRISON, shows dramatic independence poll - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/scot...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comBafflement as Gerry Hassan claims the 1979 devolution referendum, in which Scotland voted for devolution but didn't get it, is proof that Scotland is in a "voluntary union"An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . I now have six teen reg...

9 Aug

Bafflement as Gerry Hassan claims the 1979 devolution referendum, in which Scotland voted for devolution but didn't get it, is proof that Scotland is in a "voluntary union" - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/baff...

7 Aug

Robin McAlpine wants us to stop using the ballot box to try to win independence, and to start using opinion polls instead. That is, with all due respect, totally crazy - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/robi...

6 Aug

"Does PALESTINE need nuclear weapons?" - a perfectly logical question if nuclear deterrence is supposed to work: scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/does...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comThe BBC's attempts to sabotage the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games will never be forgotten - and demonstrates powerfully why a British state broadcaster will always fail Scottish viewersAn audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . I currently have fourt...

4 Aug

The BBC's attempts to sabotage the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games will never be forgotten - and demonstrates powerfully why a British state broadcaster will always fail Scottish viewers: scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/08/the-...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comThe Craig Murray and Xander Elliards blueprints for securing Scottish independence: is one better than the other?An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . I currently have fourtee...

30 July

The Craig Murray and Xander Elliards blueprints for securing Scottish independence: is one better than the other? - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/07/the-...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comJohn Swinney's strong denunciation of Burnham's outrageous "off-limits" comment: my reactionAn audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . I'm delighted to say I n...

27 July

John Swinney's strong denunciation of Burnham's outrageous "off-limits" comment: my reaction - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/07/john...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comNo. 10 North: How Burnham is signalling with his choice of name that "England is our country, Scotland is an external possession"An audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . More people have become ...

26 July

No. 10 North: How Burnham is signalling with his choice of name that "England is our country, Scotland is an external possession" - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/07/no-1...

scotgoespop.blogspot.comScottish poll DISASTER for Burnham: SNP have massive lead in his first YouGov subsample as PMAn audio podcast version of the above video can be heard HERE , and will soon be available on Apple Podcasts HERE . Many thanks to the sever...

25 July

Scottish poll DISASTER for Burnham: SNP have massive lead in his first YouGov subsample as PM - scotgoespop.blogspot.com/2026/07/scot...