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Poll: Greens confident in North East Region

The Scottish Greens have published the results of a YouGov Holyrood poll that shows a significant boost to the Greens and Labour at the expense of the SNP and the Lib Dems (1). The 'Scotland Votes' predictor indicates that if these poll results were repeated at May's Scottish Parliament election, the Greens would treble their representation and the SNP would lose a dozen seats, while the Lib Dems would lose almost half of their current MSPs. (2)

Lead Scottish Green Party candidate for the North East Region, Martin Ford, said:

"We have just seen all the Councils in the North East set their budgets, and all the Councils in the North East making cuts in education. This is a direct result of the Scottish Government reducing funding to Councils combined with the prolonging of the Council Tax freeze, and ultimately is due to the Westminster Government's one-sided approach to deficit reduction.

"All of the four main political parties are complicit in the current slash-and-burn of public services, but there is a credible alternative. The Scottish Greens are the only party that is putting forward an alternative to cuts, a programme of investment in public services based on fair taxes on the better off and big business.

"I am confident this positive message of investing in the services we all depend on will win many new supporters for the Scottish Green Party on 5 May."

Scottish Greens co-convenor and MSP for the Glasgow Region, Patrick Harvie, added:

"This is a crucial election for Scotland. Our country needs a Parliament that's prepared to stand up the Tory cuts agenda, not suck up to it. The Lib Dems are delivering those cuts in London, the SNP worked with the coalition parties to slash services in Scotland, and Labour have yet to set out a coherent response. The Greens offer the only alternative in May, so we are urging everyone across the North East Region to second vote Green."

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Notes

1. All figures, unless otherwise stated, are from YouGov Plc. Total sample size was 1,258 adults. Fieldwork was undertaken between 21st - 22nd February 2011. The survey was carried out online. The figures have been weighted and are representative of all Scottish adults (aged 18+).

Constituency voting intention (comparison with 2007 in brackets):
- Labour: 41% (+8.8%)
- SNP: 32% (-0.9%)
- Conservative: 15% (-1.6%)
- Lib Dem: 8% (-8.2%)
- Others: 4% (+1.9%)

Regional voting intention (comparison with 2007 in brackets):
- Labour: 40% (+10.8%)
- SNP: 26% (-5%)
- Conservative: 15% (+1.1%)
- Lib Dem: 7% (-3.3%)
- Green: 6% (+2%)
- Others: 5% (-5.6%)

2. If these vote shares were repeated in a Scottish election, Weber
Shandwick's Scotland Votes site (http://www.scotlandvotes.com)
predicts the following result.
- Lab: 59 (+13)
- SNP: 35 (-12)
- Con: 19 (+2)
- Lib: 9 (-7)
- Green: 6 (+4)
- Ind: 1 (n/c)

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