Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf is facing a
political “apocalypse” as a survey showed support for his
leftist-separatist Scottish National Party has fallen to its lowest
level in a decade amid the chaotic rollout of his new hate speech law. Listen To Story
A poll conducted by YouGov amid the implementation of
the deeply controversial and draconian speech restrictions showed that
the Labour Party has surpassed Humza Yousaf’s Scottish National Party
(SNP) for the first time since the 2014 Scottish Independence
referendum, with 33 per cent of the public backing Labour in Westminster
voting intention compared to 31 per cent for Yousaf’s SNP.
According to leading polling expert Sir John Curtice, the survey
means that the SNP is on pace to only receive 18 seats in the UK
parliament, a potentially disastrous decline from the 2019 general
election when the separatist party had won 30 seats. Meanwhile, the
Scottish branch of the left-wing Labour Party is predicted to win 28
seats in the northern British country. The Scottish Daily Express described the polling as indicating a potential “apocalypse” for Yousaf and his leftist party.
Meanwhile, the polling suggested that the SNP and Labour would each
secure 43 seats in the 2026 Scottish Parliament elections, potentially
jeopardising the Scottish National Party’s ability to maintain its grip
on power over the locally devolved government, which it has held for
nearly two decades.
Support for the far-left-nationalist-separatist party comes amid increasing anger over the “calamitous state”
of the National Health Service (NHS) in Scotland as well as persistent
scandals rocking the party, specifically surrounding corruption
allegations, including the arrest of former SNP First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and her husband last year.
Separate polling has shown that 70 per cent of the Scottish public
are in favour of ousting Yousaf and his government following “years of
division and decline”. Furthermore, less than 30 per cent of
respondents were in agreement with calling the current government
“competent”
The poll was also conducted in part during the first days of the
rollout of the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021, which
came into force last Monday.
YouGov Westminster voting intention (Scotland, 25 Mar – 2 Apr): Labour are now ahead of the SNP for the first time since the independence referendum
Labour: 33% (+1 from Oct)
SNP: 31% (-2)
Con: 14% (-6)
Lib Dem: 7% (+2)
Reform UK: 7% (+5)
Green: 5% (=)https://t.co/rUj2aYQo9s pic.twitter.com/wAzGpO8X6s— YouGov (@YouGov) April 10, 2024
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