The National:

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."

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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Empty promises from Unionists have been exposed. They have no record to stand on – and more and more of Scotland knows it.