My inlaws were up yesterday and they have already voted No by postal ballot. And I can tell you, they are terrified of Scottish independence. Absolutely terrified. The papers and Project fear have worked on them. They were asking questions like "What will you do when the food runs out?" Well done Blair MacDougall. If you went in to this campaign to scare old folk, grand job. Knob. The Better Together campaign has to go down in history as one of the worst campaigns ever run. Relentlessly negative from the start, offering nothing positive to say about the union, blunder after blunder and of course the fact they're 20 years behind in how to campaign. They believe in the power of the newspapers and the BBC, but even with almost all the mainstream media behind it the polls are saying its 50/50. The head of this campaign, Mr MacDougall, has run a campaign before. In 2010, David Miliband's Labour leadership bid. You know, the one where he was a shoo-in but somehow threw it away at the very end. I dislike Better Together. I hate their attitude, their arrogance, their goal of fearmongering. But having seen my in-laws yesterday I reached a new loathing. Having activists tell pensioners that their pensions will be stopped on September 19th, for instance. Or Gordon Brown telling people on the organ waiting lists that they'll be cut off from English blood and organ donations (lies! F*****g lies!!) simply to terrify them. These things all fact checked can be refuted, but for many vulnerable people the fear sticks. And this bugs me immensely.
I know, I know, plenty of Better Together Are Shitebags threads for this.