WOES NOT OVER FOR CAMERON

The energised Yes campaign in the Scottish referendum was made up of highly effective grassroots groups and signals a political sea change ahead of next year’s British general election, writes Miranda Green

SCOTLAND’S referendum result has left Britain’s political classes with a bad case of morning-after paranoia.

A highly effective range of grassroots activist groups, covering a spectrum of leftist views from anti-capitalism to nuclear disarmament, has reinvented the whole idea of what an election campaign can be — it has helped the Nationalists and the pro-separation Green Party serve up a cocktail of popular engagement and idealism to Westminster and Whitehall. But London’s governing elite was already looking queasy.