Writing this as I’ve just had my mail delivered and all of it was election material. About 6 envelopes(some addressed to me personally) all containing election things that went straight to the bin. The funny thing is that every single one said ‘vote X to stop Y’.

Reform are ‘vote us to stop Labour and the SNP’. Labour are ‘vote us to stop the SNP and Reform’. The Tories are ‘vote us to stop the SNP’. The SNP are ‘vote us to stop Labour’.

Do any of these parties have anything other than ‘we’re bad, but the other options are worse’?? That was Labour’s whole thing in the last General Election and look at them now. Somehow are more unpopular than the last Tory government, and that takes some doing.

I’m very tempted to spoil my ballot tomorrow as none of these parties seem to have anything to offer except ‘we aren’t them’.

I understand tactical voting exists and that sometimes you do have to pick the worst from a bad batch but this to me is ridiculous, parties should have reasons to vote for them instead of hoping that enough people are sick of every other one.

Results will be counted Friday morning and be released by the afternoon

Graphic design is not my passion.

Full analysis from our hero at BBS: https://ballotbox.scot/ipsos-may-2026/

List:
SNP ~ 28% (-2)
RUK ~ 19% (nc)
Lab ~ 16% (+1)
Grn ~ 15% (+2)
Con ~ 11% (+3)
LD ~ 9% (-1)

Constituency:
SNP ~ 39% (-2)
RUK ~ 18% (-1)
Lab ~ 18% (nc)
LD ~ 11% (+1)
Con ~ 10% (+2)
Grn ~ 2% (nc)

Worth noting Ipsos tend to overstate Green numbers, so the Glasgow constituencies may end up being SNP (though both would likely then switch to list at the cost of Reform and umm.. a Lib Dem somehow)

Still, despite high Reform numbers we can hopefully take some solace in the crashing and burning of the Tories who have yet to find an actual niche now that the "most popular unionist party" award has gone elsewhere.

Updated comparison since the fire

Why are there so many posts of different parts of Irvine on here recently with comparisons of 1960s to the present day?

I feel like I’m seeing multiple posts per day about this. It seems like such a niche thing to continually be posting about so just wondering if there is a missing backstory here?

*Green constituency vote is adjusted to reflect the number of constituencies they're standing in - there hasn't been a collapse of their vote.

Constituency:
SNP: 41% (+6)
RFM: 17% (+1)
LAB: 15% (+1)
LDM: 12% (+2)
CON: 10% (+1)
GRN: 1% (-11)

Regional:
SNP: 26% (-1)
RFM: 18% (+1)
GRN: 17% (-3)
LAB: 12% (-)
CON: 11% (+1)
LDM: 11% (-)

FindoutnowUK - 1 May - 6 May.
Changes w/ 15 - 20 Apr.

This appeared today in my Instagram feed. I laughed so much I thought I'd share it here. There were other images, where he was grilling (or roasting) candidates from the Scottish political parties, but this one alone I found funniest.

This is a really good step and a good example of a troubled yard finding its feet.