So, following the minor lead that Yes garnered at the weekend, the heavy-hitters have come up from London. Denying that they are panicking, they cancelled their appearance at Prime Minister’s Questions, informing the Speaker of the House only a day before, despite it being a well-planned long-awaited and well-advertised trip, and travelled up to Scotland to walk among the people.

David Cameron, Nick Clegg, Ed Milliband, and for some reason John Prescott are here to push the case for the union. But they’re not offering new things to encourage us to stay, because that would be in breach of regulations. No, instead they’re offering things that they’ve been saying all along, you’ve just not been listening to them telling you about them before, that’s why they sound so new! And even then, it’s not the UK Government that’s offering it, it’s the pro-union parties – they’re not subject to purdah! read more