The demographic breakdown of the referendum.

The demographic breakdown is interesting. The young and working class unskilled generally voted for independence on Thursday - they wanted a more 'socialist' equal society'. The No vote generally speaking went to the older and more educated middle classes. This should not surprise us as the middle classes had more to lose if there was independence. They have done relatively well out of the Union. White working class as in the rest of Britain are not doing well in globalization. This class Karl Marx called the 'lumpen proletariat'. The question for all politicians of no matter what colour is - how can this disenfranchised group get more of the economic cake? However unless they are better educated they will always be a benighted class. Scotland has some of the best education in the world and if they cannot shift this listless group - who can? Herein lies the fundamental fault line in modern social and political policy - how can things be made better for this group or will they as Marx suggested always no matter what be a the bottom of the heap?
An article in The Sunday Times today suggests that even getting a degree from some universities is just not worth the paper its written on. If you spent three years at the Metropolitan, East and South London universities, don't bother as the likelihood of getting a good professional job is unlikely. There is no opportunity even if you get first class degree in law of ending up in a prestigious set of chambers or one of the top city solicitors like Clifford Chance, Linklaters or Slaughter and May.
There is currently and argument going on in Whitehall as to whether closing down some of these institutions is better in the long term as its a waste of public money rather than keeping this manifold charade going.