registration certificate, as long as you are registered to vote. You can see those details on the BBC website on the Electoral Commission website. Presenter says ‘Good advice!’

At the website:

Conspiracy or c***up?

Those less likely to have bank cards, driving licences etc, the poor, are also more likely to vote for leftist parties. The SNP is clearly the only larger left-of-centre party known to be working to reduce poverty.

Evidence from Alan Dorans, SNP candidate for Ayr, Carrick and Cumnock, in the National, January 2024:

This matters for all of us but matters more for the SNP than for the other parties, including Labour. Dishonest media campaigns on SNP finances and, more recently, on pandemic management have reduced support in polls, so we have a real task to get out those who, were they properly informed by that same media, would realise what is in their clear interests. We know this fairly certainly and objectively, based on repeated polls. In the most recent Ipsos MORI poll, in November 2023, SNP support was 3% higher among C2DE social class voters than among ABC1s but for Labour it was 7% lower. Interestingly, support for the Conservatives in this poll was 8% higher among the C2DE category.

This latter point highlights the need to inform this group of what is in their best interests economically and to counter notions of the Conservatives as guardians of traditional values.

A YouGov poll in October 2023 had almost exactly the same pattern of distribution, with the SNP ahead by 3% with C2DE voters, Labour ahead again by 7% with ABC1 voters and the Conservatives 3% ahead again with C2DE voters.

We see in both of these polls, evidence that Labour Party support is increasingly middle class. We know that this group turns out at elections. Is that why Labour are drifting so confidently to the right, to capture Conservative voters while trusting the ABC1 group to stay with them? And, contrary to their beginnings, are happy to abandon the C2DE group, knowing its apathy will make it less numerous on election day than the SNP need?

There is little likelihood that the SNP can persuade the hardcore of Conservative or Labour voters to switch to the SNP regardless of how much it would be in their economic interests.

Like poor Americans who vote Republican, “shooting themselves in the foot” economically speaking, because of hostility to minorities or to “liberal” values on women’s rights such as abortion, the Conservative but poor voters in Scotland are not listening.

And the Labour middle-class voters are either covering their ears when Keir Starmer speaks, have swallowed the need for some undefined change or have been duped by the media into believing an unfounded tale of SNP corruption.

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