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I didn't remember that (or understand it at the time, I think). My main memory of it was that it got off completely on the wrong foot because Labour aligned themselves with the Tories and because they seemed to be in it only because of their own interest in the number of MPs they then still had. I don't know how exactly all that played out in Scotland and what people considered more or less significant of all the factors.
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I think they were in a do it and you're fucked on the Unionist vote which the Tories are now mopping up, don't do it and also alienate the Indy vote which of course, went to the SNP where they might otherwise have stayed for a Labour party that said they would respect the referendum result and not campaign on it. It also didn't help that the then ScotLab leader was the very worst of smug Blairite no-hopers that to most voters was about as appealing as a puke covered dog shit.
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I think you're really thinking of Gordon Brown's strange disappearing 11th hour "Vow" during the IndyRef that although printed on the front page of every newspaper was in fact never legally or morally binding upon any of its supposed main UK party signatories.
The ultimate political dirty trick.