Hello and welcome to Not Another One. I'm Miranda Green and I'm joined today by Ian Martin and Tim Montgomery.

Our fourth musketeer, Steve Richards, has already flown the coop because we are actually recording over the bank holiday weekend for your listening pleasure.

Because there is so much going on over the next few days that we thought we would try and do an episode where we sort of step back a bit from the maelstrom of electoral politics, international affairs, high politics around Downing Street,

which we talked about in our last episode. So chaps, there's so much to discuss. And of course,

on Thursday the 7th of May, quite a lot of us across mainland UK go to the polls.

And when we express our preference this time,

it's quite different from elections of the past.

You know, we've discussed so many times on this podcast,

is this really the death of two-party politics? But Ian, I think you've been looking at particularly at Scotland, where it's already

been, you know, five, six-party politics for some time. And as far as I can work out, I mean,

I'm obviously much less embedded in the Scottish political scene than you. The polls are

slightly all over the place, are they not?

Will it be the end of the SNPs, what, two decades of government

and hoping for a third?

Well, it depends which set of opinion polls you look at.

I mean, I have regular listeners will know that a few weeks ago I said,

well, things might be moving away from the SNP. I mean, it's so, as you say, it's so difficult

to know with contradictory polls. What we do know, and as you say, we're recording this over the

weekend and we're going to move on to some other things. But what's worrying me as a unionist is the poll by Stonehaven.

And Stonehaven have produced a, what's termed a megapole, an MRP, which is a very sophisticated

series of models.

And it shows the nationalist winning a majority which is

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