The same old tricks

Way back in the day, the Lib Dems in particular, but also other parties and the “Better Together” campaign, were infamous for the “dodgy barchart” tactic.

And so degraded is the modern SNP, it’s now scraping the same barrel.

Here’s a graphic the party’s MSPs have been tweeting this week, made up to look like it came from the polling company Survation:

And here’s the tragic reality from Survation’s website:

That’s politics, of course. So far so casually, cynically dishonest. Business as usual. But what’s (very) mildly interesting about it is the way the SNP have bigged up Anas Sarwar in it. Their graphic suggests he’s the second-least-unpopular leader, when in fact he’s even LESS popular than Russell Findlay and Alex Cole-Hamilton.

A Scottish Labour leader being less popular than even the Tories’ would be something you might expect the SNP to want to make a bit of capital out of. Unless, of course, there was some reason they wanted to go easy on Labour.