Hooray! Brown’s back to lecture us

“If digging up Gordon Brown is the best the No campaign and Labour can come up with then God help us all.”

Let’s face it it was going to happen one day. Nobody but Rip Van Winkle could sleep for that long. Sooner or later a great awakening was on the cards and we shouldn’t have been too surprised when it finally happened.

Yes, last week former Prime Minister Gordon Brown returned . . . and the country let out a collective yawn. Cue a mind-numbing lecture and rambling profundities.

Like a bottle of watered down HP the Brown stuff was soon in unstoppable flow, pouring out the same old Union rhetoric to those eager Labour disciples who had somehow worked out how to switch off his electric blanket.

Really, if digging up Gordon Brown is the best the No campaign and Labour can come up with then God help us all.

Have we not suffered enough? For almost two years now we’ve had to put up with a daily dose of scaremongering tripe, petty posturing and puerile arguments. The last thing we want now is advice from a failed PM who was responsible for raiding our pensions, wasting our reserves, borrowing on the never-never and plunging the UK into the worst recession in living memory.

No, what we want before we cast our votes on such an important matter as independence are answers. Real answers to the questions that vex us all. We want answers on the economy, on investment, job creation, tax, Europe, currency, defence and education to name but a few.

What we need is adult debate and informed choice, not childish squabbling, name calling and immature scaremongering.

We certainly don’t need failed political dinosaurs extolling virtues and beliefs they never ever subscribed to when they were in office.

If we really want social justice, fairness and equality of opportunity Keir Hardie’s cornerstones of a great nation then going back to the drawing board and going it alone might be the best and only option.

He may not have subscribed to that notion himself 100 years ago when he led the great socialist charge, but I wouldn’t bet against him agreeing to it now if he were still around.

One thing’s for sure he’d be cringing with embarrassment at some of the shenanigans, policies and alliances New Labour got involved in when Blair and Brown ran the country and I’m sure he’d be apoplectic with rage at the current lot’s lack of inventiveness and deals with the Tories.

Sadly, though, after all is said and done it seems the bickering and petty accusations between all parties, especially those based in Westminster and those in Scotland, are only going to get more heated, more divisive and a lot more childish before any date with destiny in 2014.

Maybe we should all emigrate!