It does tell us something. It tells us that the Scots are happy to change how they vote depending on the nature of the election. Which might mean that the pollsters have got their opinion polls all to cock.

My comment was relating to the use of the 2010 general election result being some sort of guide for the level of support for the SNP, which I then qualified by pointing at the Scottish election.

Voting at local & national level often does change, nothing new there.

You need to read the article and the many others that are available, it would take an Act of Parliament but it took an Act of Parliament to establish the rule in the first place, its not like they don't know how to do it or that it would be impossible to do.

The fact that they were leaking the information to the press last week shows how hard they have hit the panic button, I'm guessing that there is a Prime Minister somewhere in this land who won't sleep a wink tonight.

Did I miss something?

And Acts of Parliament can be amended...

My point was that the pollsters are using the 2011 Scottish election results as the baseline for their referendum polling samples, as of course there are no previous referendum results to use. Which inevitably introduces a greater margin of error in the results. It might not be as close as is being predicted.

Just because you say it can, doesn't mean it can...

I'd be a little careful making assumptions on polling methods if I were you, a previous poster made an are of himself on opinion polls

With the declaration of Fife at 06:10, the result is a win for the no campaign

The 2011 Parliament Act cannot be changed or amended until at least 2020, when there will be an analysis of how it has worked sine it was introduced.

It would be constitutionally & logistically impossible to get any Bill through Parliament before the 2015 GE.