Does "Better Together" Make A Good Case For The Union?

[FaizA]

So...a politician is playing political games in order to score political points. In other news, dog barks at postman, cat chases squirrel and one legged duck swims in circle.

[CassieV]

Yea I forgot the YesNP campaign were having such a good time of it at the moment.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/llsnew-recruits-banned-by-panelbase-from-indyref-polls.1378556935

This poll that you were raving about Aiki?

Then there are the other more widely accepted polls showing Independance support getting even lower.

Raz

[Nikkieee♥]

Haven't found a link to actual report yet. If you have one. Please feel free to post it.

[TheSauceMan]

She wasn't just playing political games. She defamed a successful businessman in the process by implying something untoward had taken place. It's also a belter of an own goal. You'd think the Labour party would have done their research and would have known who spent what.

[TREKKER]

Your article is behind a pay wall. So I don't really know what the content says. What's to say similar things haven't happened with other polls? If a polling organisation pounds the streets of Glasgow in a predominantly protestant area populated by Rangers fans, the results aren't going to be hard to predict. Here's an interesting little blog post I cam across that discusses how polls are rigged and how the independence question it's self is biased towards a YES vote.

If anything this highlights just how vulnerable polls are to bias and tampering.

[paulahandlon]

http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/baillie-bedroom-tax-comments-not-labour-policy-1-3093800
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-24090772

Labour still confused about the bedroom tax. Why does this matter to the independence debate and the Better Together campaign? Better Together is lead by Labour's Alastair Darling. The chancellor at the time of the banking crisis that has given us all of these austerity cuts.

The policy Jackie Bailie and Anas Sarwar are pushing and promoting and claim will absolutely happen if Labour were in power tomorrow.Both Jackie Bailie and Anas Sarwar have made this claim in independence debates. However it has no backing at all at this time from UK Labour and therefore no basis in truth. At best it's wishful thinking. At worst it's a flat out lie.

This is only compounded by the fact the SNP, who are not beholden to Westminster are able to say they absolutely would abolish the bedroom tax if Scotland were independent.

How should Better Together be responding to the SNP on this issue? Especially considering the UN has said the bedroom tax should be suspended and redesigned.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-24044597
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10301297/UN-report-criticising-bedroom-tax-is-absolute-disgrace-says-Grant-Shapps.html
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/bedroom-tax-abolish-it-says-un-inspector-after-visits-to-glasgow-edinburgh.1378882434
http://news.sky.com/story/1140115/axe-bedroom-tax-says-un-investigator
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/09/11/bedroom-tax-united-nation_n_3904179.html?utm_hp_ref=uk
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/grant-shapps-protests-to-un-over-special-investigators-disgraceful-comments-on-bedroom-tax-8808680.html

[gracekelly3rd]

I seem to have missed this comment. Are Better Together actually doing a good job or are you simply conflating the natural tendency people have to stick with what they know? For example, people tend not to shop around for better banking services or energy providers because switching is perceived to be laden with hassle and complication. Even though people frequently complain about charges, tariffs and the quality of service.

That being the case. Better Together could do absolutely nothing and the poll results could still turn out to be the same or very similar. So what is it about this polling data that makes you so confident Better Together are having an influence?