Nicola Sturgeon’s bandwagon rolls on: a new poll puts the SNP on 62%

People like to support successful teams. That’s why there are far more Chelsea fans now than there were 20 years ago. It’s why, in Scotland, Celtic and (until recently) Rangers carved up the country between them.

And it helps explain, a little, why the SNP is now polling at 62 percent. You read that correctly: 62 percent. Today’s Herald/TNS poll suggests the SNP could win 78 seats at next year’s Scottish parliament elections. And with the Greens projected to take nine seats, pro-independence parties would hold 87 of Holyrood’s 129 seats. Labour would be reduced to 25 MSPs, the Tories 15 and the Lib Dems to only two.

So if this is a bubble it’s a bloody large bubble that shows no sign of bursting any time soon.

It helps, of course, that Labour are a shambles north and south of the border, that the Tories remain persona non grata and that the Liberal Democrats, polling at three percent, are, functionally, an ex-party.