article_snippet: The typical Ukip supporter is not, as we used to think, Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells, a retired Army officer spluttering over The typical Ukip supporter gin and tonic at the 19th hole, but a working-class voter or small businessman or shopkeeper who feels betrayed and belittled by the system.
article_snippet: Blair’s Labour sought to win over graduates and middle-class professionals – those who aspired to leave the working class.
article_snippet: Conservatives sought to distance Conservatives from the image of the ‘nasty party’ by rejecting Thatcherism and embracing modernisation; while Cameron and Osborne, liberal-minded men, seem remote in lifestyle and understanding from those left behind.
article_snippet: Ukip, in consequence, is now the most working-class party in English politics.
article_snippet: The vote in the independence referendum last September was a class vote.
article_snippet: But, to the left behind, Cameron and Miliband are equivalent – members of an Oxbridge liberal elite who represent the exam-passing classes who do not understand the aspirations of the less fortunate.