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The reanimated Scottish Labour frankenstein of Gordon Brown on the political horizon offers little solace or hope, and career politicians like Jim Murphy crying crocodile tears for the last few weeks hasn't done much to endear them, even if they weren't totally subject to the UK labour agenda.
Miliband's already endorsed Tory policies and as a politician is about as inspiring as a pigeon pecking at dog shit. I see little to gain by the Scots repeatedly giving them a majority they don't deserve and take for granted.
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The problem you have there is that Cameron presently has power in the UK and the Tories already have virtually no power in Scotland. The threat of less power if they ignore or dilute their promises is effectively empty. The Tories will do what the Tories always do, accelerate and hope to spin things off into private hands, which is their equivalent of leaving the Church stuff in your will... it's damn hard to reverse.
Only Labour have a significant amount to lose (and gain), but that only works if it at all looks likely that Scotland's voters will back Labour. I wouldn't bang the drum of indistinguishableness from the Tories too loudly.