Some rare good news for Scottish Unionists

[Emrys]

9. We still have a bit of a wait till the first post-launch polling for Alba

In the mean time, from a researcher at Glasgow University, here's a look at the party's presence on social media, which is of heightened importance at the moment and in the campaign as a whole because face-to-face/doorstep encounters will be few and far between, and short of stunts and engineered controversies, Alba's going to struggle for mainstream media coverage.

It reinforces my own impression from Twitter: some hyperactive roasters/zoomers, many of whom I already had on mute, zipping around with a surprising degree of cockiness and further alienating people, especially SNP supporters, whose patience they'd already overtaxed, drowning out the more thoughtful Alba voices who may be soon, if not currently, wondering what the hell they've gotten mixed up with.

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As for Kenny MacAskill, mentioned earlier ...

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