QOSHE - Kevin McKenna: 'Scots had independence in their grasp but the SNP dropped it' In August, 2014, a small group of working-class women from Govan invited me to share in their discussion about the forthcoming independence referendum. What unfolded in those two hours encapsulated for me – more than the dozens of other events I attended in 2013 and 2014 - what the entire campaign was supposed to be about.