@SturmUndDranger if you'll look at the #nipol tag for my account, you'll see I've covered every NI poll this election, but unfortunately there's only one pollster who covers NI and they've only done 3 polls, and there are no MRP models available for NI because it is an incredibly difficult area to model and only has 18 seats.

You'll also note that the title of the post above is "GB MRP OPINION POLL", not "UK MRP OPINION POLL".

@SturmUndDranger you're absolutely right on that one, but unfortunately almost nobody uses #gbpol, so #ukpol gets used to mean anything relating to politics in the UK in general.

NI is definitely consistently overlooked in UK politics, to its detriment, but I think part of that is that it only returns 18 MPs, the majority of whom don't really participate in Westminster politics and the plurality of whom are abstentionists, such that who governs the UK is almost never affected by NI politics.

@ukelections Yes, it deserves a fairer shout than that - even on tabloid grounds the (until 2024) leader of a party with 7MPs was today sent for trial on rape and other sexual offence charges with little input from the commentariat in a way inconceivable if he had led say the Greens or Plaid Cymru.

The constitutional constraints do make things more inward facing but the question they answer (what country is this) is politically more fascinating than say the Clacton circus.