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We’ve been here before with Kevin, perhaps the least convincing convert from Labour to some kind of nationalist. He writes a lot but clearly researches little. Is the above claim based on any substance like a poll?
It doesn’t look like it. Two January 2026 polls had a class breakdown.
In the YouGov poll, the SNP has exactly the same support 34% from Social groups ABC1 and C2DE. Only Reform UK are better supported in C2DE, by 22 to 17. Labour are notably better supported by ABC1, by 16 to 13, even more so than the Cons.
The Norstat poll for the Times, also in early January 2026, has SNP markedly more popular with C2DE by 40% to 26%, Reform UK more popular with C2DE but only by 24 to 19, and Labour more popular again with ABC1 by 21 to 12.
https://aws.norstat.no/202601/2026/ST_Tables_for_publication_190125.pdf
So the working-class in Scotland don’t support Labour anymore. Why might that be? Sir Keir Starmer’s impoverishment of them and enrichment of the better off since he was elected and the SNP’s more progressive taxation, universal benefits, lower rents, lower council tax and the Child Payment to name only a few?
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