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Gordon Brown did re-energize the “No” campaign which was lacklustre and cowed at grass-roots level by intimidation, bullying, social media insults, particularly on Twitter and disrupted by the BBC who were deliberately partisan and failed to put forward the key facts about the Barnett Formula.
Gordon Brown as Prime Minister was pugilistic, ill-tempered and dishonest but in the Prime Ministerial debates was lacklustre.
This time round he was the reincarnation of his late father a stern Calvinistic preacher thumping his Bible and delivering the threat of fire and brimstone to his flock unless they resumed the path of righteousness.
What was not mentioned, of course, is the bribe that encouraged Scottish pensioners and those that have continued to benefit from English largess, to come forward on their zimmer-frames , walking sticks and mobility scooters and vote “No”.
Not only do the Scots get to keep the Barnett Formula worth £3,500 gbp a head, not the £1300 gbp quoted by the BBC, but they also get free tuition fees, free prescription charges, free Adult Social Care, the lion’s share of EU budget rebates in Regional Selective Assistance or whatever it is now called, more money for the NHS, and now more tax raising powers, the retention of their own Parliament and more say over their own affairs.
The bribe was enough to get people thinking about what they might lose but Gordon Brown tipped them over the edge and through his intervention caused Alex Salmond who “peaked too early” to resign.
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What an amusing – and accurate – post. You made me chuckle!