ON a week when the SNP has seen membership surge massively as a result of standing up for Scotland, the Unionists have wheeled out Gordon Brown not once ... but twice.
Perhaps disappointed by the lack of interest in his independence doomsday warning yesterday, Gordon Brown has had another shot at it today.
Yesterday, as he was speaking at a Labour rally for the NHS in Glasgow, he said: "You look now at the Scottish National Party's proposals for independence, they will not be spending money on the health service this decade, they wouldn't be spending it in the next decade and they wouldn't be spending it the decade after.
"Austerity is here until doomsday if the Scottish National Party is all that is going to confront it."
Today, it's a Scottish Fabians event. A message from his shared account said: "SNP 'growth' blueprint has abandoned social justice and changed shape of Scottish politics for years to come. Labour indisputably Scotland's party of social justice, Gordon tells #ScotFab18."
SNP “growth” blueprint has abandoned social justice and changed shape of Scottish politics for years to come. Labour indisputably Scotland’s party of social justice, Gordon tells #ScotFab18 pic.twitter.com/7RTkVJj9jf
— Gordon & Sarah Brown (@OfficeGSBrown) June 16, 2018
Yes, #BrownhogDay has come twice this year.
This perhaps wasn't such a wise tactic from Brown however. He doesn't have much of a record to make this criticisms from.
And it meant Twitter had plenty of ammunition to set him straight.
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Where's our "modern form of Home Rule" that's the "closest thing to federalism" you promised us in 2014?
— Alan Ferrier (@alanferrier) June 16, 2018
"This is a promise we will keep," you said.
Away and raffle yourself, you auld fraud. pic.twitter.com/kY07WS67Bq
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I’ve asked the rest of BetterTogether, but got no answer. When is your 350 page plan for how Scotland will prosper by staying in the UK due? #WheresYourPlan pic.twitter.com/a6wEBdNH44
— Colin Dunn (@Zarkwan) June 16, 2018
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You broke the UK's banking system, literally sold the country's gold, and invaded Iraq, slaughtering a million people.
— Well-tended city park (@Tommy_Glasgow_) June 16, 2018
Then in 2014 you promised we'd be a federation within months if we voted No.
Nobody's listening any more. https://t.co/mZRHAob48h
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Walking With Dinosaurs 2
— joe kane🏴🇵🇸🇮🇸 (@joe90kane) June 16, 2018
The last remaining Brownasaurus gives a talk to a packed lagoon of followers shattering the myth that mammals have a vision of the future and accusing them of manufacturing a crisis out of the coming brexit meteor collision
#ScotFab18 pic.twitter.com/n2iNkDQkyD
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That feeling when you look at all your Twitter replies and realise that your superpowers of persuasion just aren't doing it anymore. pic.twitter.com/BUIMQIFpkt
— SNPeace❤ (@blair_janey) June 16, 2018
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Parties of "social justice" don't abstain or vote against welfare reforms. You are a tory HTH. https://t.co/4nvT3g4eTA
— Fosh (@foshtown) June 16, 2018
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Why not just be honest and tell people you're panicking because there will be no house of lords in an independent Scotland.
— Harry D (@glesgacyclist) June 16, 2018
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Hey Gordon, do you think that Scotland should endure the consequences of Brexit? Just put up with it? Well, if so, why don't you come out and debate finances in front of a live audience and journalists?
— Mark Coburn (@Indycyclist) June 16, 2018
Why hide? https://t.co/DzShAs087i
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Labour are Tory enablers so jog on .
— Margaret Mckee (@margaret8662254) June 16, 2018
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Erm, you cut benefits for single parents & disabled in your first year as Chancellor and abolished the 10p tax for the low paidhttps://t.co/vLFRaTeBLQ
— Robert Davidson (@R_Davidson1980) June 16, 2018
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All we ever heard from Mr Brown in office were paeans to deregulation, privatisation and austerity. New Labour was the Party of big business, war and tax cuts, but never of social justice.
— Lauren Alder Ⓥ (@LaurenAlder) June 16, 2018
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Home Rule! Near Federalism! You are done Gordon. Retire quietly. #BrownHogDay
— S G 🏴 (@Steven__Gray) June 16, 2018
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60 countries have gained independence from this corrupt WM and not one has failed or asked to come back, WE WILL BE JUST FINE.
— Ronnie Allan (@allan_ronnie) June 16, 2018
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I have no idea why you insist on speaking to hand-picked small audiences behind locked doors if you feel what you have to say has substance and truth that will be respected by the Scottish populace. Can it be you repeat a tired, out-moded concept and nobody cares anymore?
— Grouse Beater (@Grouse_Beater) June 16, 2018
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I’d actually find it impossible to laugh any harder, they always say one thing and do the opposite. https://t.co/rJNQpTzA3v
— Fraßlet (@Fraslet) June 16, 2018
Empty promises from Unionists have been exposed. They have no record to stand on – and more and more of Scotland knows it.
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