If Gordon Is The Answer Things Must Be Bad

With the polls on a knife-edge, Better Together are deploying the big guns.

Ed Miliband has been dispatched to raise the Saltire over Liverpool, in a bid to make Scottish voters feel warm and cuddly about the rest of the UK.

It's the start of a relentless love-bombing by Westminster.

And six years after he claimed to have "saved the world", Gordon Brown has also been drafted in to save the Union.

This time around, the newspapers aren't mocking.

The first sentence in The Times seemed entirely straight-faced ("Gordon Brown was parachuted in to save the Union last night") and so did the Independent's headline ("Brown to the rescue? No camp sends for ex-PM to save union.")

More pandas in Scotland than Tory MPs

Some may feel that if Better Together's hopes are hinged on a man who never managed to win an election, things really must be bad.

In fact, the renaissance of Gordon Brown says less about the man himself and more about the alternatives.

David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg aren't seen as part of the solution in Scotland, but part of the problem.

When I spent a week north of the border recently, I was struck by how many people said they were voting Yes because they hated (and I don't think that's too strong a word) politicians in Westminster.

They argued that they were sick of being governed by parties they didn't vote for, and Westminster felt hundreds of miles away, ideologically as well as geographically.

Cameron and Clegg: the Westminster elite?

The Conservatives bear the brunt of this mistrust (I've lost count of the number of times Alex Salmond has said there are more pandas in Scotland than Tory MPs) but it is not as simple as an anti-Tory sentiment.

The YouGov poll that put the Yes campaign ahead by a nose is enlightening. According to the survey, Ed Miliband and David Cameron are in a dead heat when it comes to how much they are trusted - a dismal 23%.

In other words, Ed Miliband (who owns a £2m house and went to the same North London primary school as Boris Johnson) isn't a great hit with the Scots either.

Suddenly, the idea of Gordon Brown saving the Union doesn't seem so far-fetched after all.

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