"What's 'better together' about here?" asks David Linden, a 24-year-old activist for the Scottish National Party (snp), gesturing to a turd-strewn street of rundown public housing in Shet-tleston, in the East End of Glasgow. Mr Linden, who is campaigning for Scotland to choose independence at the referendum on September 18th, raises a fair question. Shettleston is one of Britain's poorest, idlest and sickest places; at 64, male life expectancy is 15 years below the national average and falling. Why wouldn't the ailing locals disdain the unionist Better Together campaign for the shimmering Utopia of the Yes Scotland separatists?
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