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John Prescott joined the campaign today. I'm not sure if he did any good for the naes. He pointed out that Cameron might not be the asset that the better together's think he is, which may be true. But then he made a blunder of epic proportions, he suggested that we should have a UK football team so, "that we could beat the Germans". My jaw dropped at the ignorance and insensitivity of that! 

A couple of quotes from the Scotsman comments:

• "stay together and they'll take away our football team?"
• "So Jabba the Hut bobs to the surface like some great brown jobby."

At least Prezza [notice the yes-thug agenda that I warned about yesterday in the comments] had the bottle to get out onto the streets and mix it. It's just that nobody here much cares what he thinks.

This is the a problem with politicians, they assume that the people of Scotland [and everyone else] are hanging on their words and will be persuaded by them. That time, where we thought that they had anything germane to spout. if it every existed, is long gone now; their words are merely irksome at best, self-defeating at worst.

Worse they believe that the media is where the battle is taking place. Where do they think we are? This is twenty-first century Scotland, we have the internet, do the still think that if they cozy up to some press-plutocrat then things will fall-out as they wish?

What is very noticeable is that although the three stooges jetted in to, fight for the family, there is no reporting about who they are actually talking to while they are here. The thought occurs that this, engagement with the people of Scotland, is just actually just a press-conference, that they might have held in London, a press-conference that was held in a strange land.

I started this indyref stuff because I was worried that the media were going to give outsiders a false idea about what us here, huddled, in Scotland are thinking; I was longing to say something that I thought was very important: democracy and the democratic process is the winner here. Whatever the result we will remember this.

When was the last time that you walked to work and every conversation you heard was about the way you were going to vote?

I hope I'm not boring you.