http://www.theguardian.com/commentis...camp-isolation
An interesting perspective, at least from the celebrity aspect of this debate. I think campaigns so far have epitomized the struggle between ideology and pragmatism which reflects how difficult it is for the No campaign to argue against the land of milk and honey promised by the Yes campaign. Unfortunately, pragmatism is rarely an attribute of passionate people which is why the Yes campaign is more vocal and noticeable.
You've hit on a very good point too with the whole 'No=Tories' card that Salmond is playing. I think it's probably he's getting very desperate from looking at the polls- so card of last resort- most Scots hate the Tory party, lets put them center stage... which is ridiculously stupid. Since ironically an IScotland surprisingly can also develop a right wing... who'd have thought it!? The Tory government is in power now soley due to a Coalition deal with the Lib-Dems (Weirdest meeting of minds in history...) and they are NOT the UK as a state. It really annoys me when Yes supporters start talking about that.
Four things annoyed me in that last debate:
1) The cheering and jeering from some of the audience members, just not very polite in my opinion.
2) That some of the audience questions were just plain attacks on the debaters(I think you all know which one I'm talking about.
3) Salmond's attempt to paint Darling(and consequently any No supporter) as Tories. Just a really dirty and cheap tactic.
4) Salmond walking in front of the podium every time he answered a question. Seemed like some weird attempt to be more informal and friendly straight out of a rhetoric book for dummies and the desperate. Couldn't get this out of my head every time he did it:
Scratch that, the entire debate reminded me of that.