A common theme we’re seeing is that of exploring why the middle-classes are not supporting independence. I have my own theories pertaining to the middle class still being comfortable enough, fearing the “great unwashed” Scotttish underclass, not wanting to risk even a few weeks of uncertainty or a minor drop in current income, and a delusional belief that a NO vote was for keeping things as they were – when everything says that the Neocon Westminster is going to squeeze the middle class dry. Connecting to the middle class to making it clear that nothing will be the same and one cannot turn a blind eye to the plight of others thinking it has nothing to do with them.
In 2011 the SNP won the most remarkable landslide victory. We won from Caithness to Cumnock. We won in every city in Scotland and we won across every social class, securing votes from all backgrounds. We won this astonishing victory on a manifesto that had a range of measures to improve our society and community at every level and we were rewarded for the good government we had demonstrated in the previous four years. We pledged to retain free education, keep free prescriptions and freeze the council tax. It was what could only be called a ‘One Scotland’ platform. We secured support and votes from all demographics and from people from all social backgrounds.
On September the 18th, the Yes vote scored almost exactly the same percentage share of the vote that the SNP secured in 2011, but the composition of that vote could not be more different. The…
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A Former Dundee Man 