09/09/2014 Scotland Decides

to the site in Ukraine. Now on BBC News, Scotland decides,

Tonight, the three main UK party Smith.

Tonight, the three main UK party leaders take a dramatic step to try

to bolster the No campaign. David Cameron, Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband

miss tomorrow's Prime Minister's Questions and had to Scotland as

another poll suggests the referendum close to call. There is one thing we

all passionately agree about, that our United Kingdom is better off if

we stay together. It is a significant day in the campaign.

This is the is the day the No campaign finally fell apart at the

seams. And a taste of home: We catch up with Scottish expats around the

UK for their views as referendum comes closer.

Good evening from Glasgow. With the polls on a knife edge, David

Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg have decided to miss Prime

Minister's Questions and head to Scotland tomorrow to join the

campaign against independence. This morning the three main prounion

parties join forces to back a timetable to give more powers to

Scotland in the event of a vote. More on that in a moment, but first,

the Prime Minister on why he is travelling to Scotland tomorrow.

There is a lot the political leaders disagree about but we all agree

passionately that our United Kingdom is better off if we stay together,

so tomorrow the right place to be is not at premises questions in

Westminster but in Scotland listening to people, talking to

them. We will all have our own separate ways of talking about why

we are Better Together, but one thing I am sure we will all say is

that it is a matter for people in Scotland to decide, but we want you

to stay. You are cancelling PMQs, rushing through plans to devolve

more power to Scotland, raising the sole tyre over Downing Street, this

is all a desperate last`ditch move, isn't it, and if Scotland vote for

independence, can you stay as Prime Minister? I really care passionately

about this issue and our United Kingdom and want to do everything I

can to put the arguments before the people. In the end it is for the

Scottish people to decide, but I want them to know the rest of the

UK, and I speak as prime minister, want them to stay. Responding to

tomorrow's visits by the Westminster party leaders, the First Minister

told Hugh Edwards the No campaign was in total chaos. I am delighted,

obviously. We have the most unpopular Conservative prime

minister in Scottish political history joined at the hip with the

most mistrusted Labour leader of the opposition ever in Scottish

politics, coming up to Scotland, Labour and Tory together, with the

entire Westminster establishment in total panic. If I thought they were

coming by bus, I would send their bus there, that is how delighted I

am. Said that, they have a clear message, you cannot deny `` having

said that, the messages that Scotland can have the best of both

worlds. How will you count about? There is a clear message, you cannot

deny `` having said that, the messages that Scotland can have the

best of both worlds. How will you count about? There is the first poll

showing Yes moving into the lead that we would have new powers for

Scotland. Today it was confirmed that these are the same thing

offered and rejected by the last 48`hour is, we have seen total chaos

engulfing the heart of the no campaign. This morning the three

Scottish leaders of the main prounion parties announced they are

backing more powers for Holyrood. The leaders endorse the timetable

set out by Gordon Brown, which you heard about last night on the

programme. Here is Scottish Labour leader John Lamont. We will have

certainty of change. It is possible to vote no on September the 18th, a

patriotic choice, but also say you are voting for change. More powers

for the Scottish parliament. That will give us the opportunity to look

at the way we do our politics, that it will be possible, a final nail in

the coughing of the lies from Alex Salmond about the risk to the NHS.

We will have complete control, and what we will see with these new

powers, strengthening the Scottish parliament, which is one of our

proudest commitments, we will have the opportunity to end the politics

of grievance, to apply the talent and creativity of the people of

Scotland to addressing the problems they face rather than the politics

of grievance, when you look at a problem and blame someone else. This

is an important statement for the people of Scotland, that more powers

coming to the Scottish parliament with a delivery plan showing how it

will be done. The Yes campaign has welcomed the latest poll published

today. The TNS poll of 990 people was conducted between August 27 of

September four, showing that of all adults surveyed, 39% back No boat,

38% Yes vote and 23% are undecided. Taking that survey into account,

what does the poll of polls suggest? An average of half a dozen recent

polls calculated by the What Scotland website, suggest the No

campaign is on 52% and Yes on 48%. Last night we spoke to Douglas

Alexander of Better Together, and tonight I am joined by the yes

campaign, the international `` office for International

development. Three UK party leaders will be in Scotland tomorrow, David

Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg, to undermine the message that they

are deadly serious about more powers for the Scottish parliament if there

is a No boat. It will be hard to undermine that. It is a shame that

they are only making their trip to reinforce support for the union,

barely a week before people go to the polls. This is a campaign that

is in knock`down and chaos. The fact that they have cancelled their own

appearances at PMQs and are coming up and repackaging the timetable of

old powers they announced in the spring just goes to show the level

of panic. They thought this would be a ride on the park and as your polls

suggest, this is still all to be played for. They are in utter

meltdown and this is probably the Yes campaign could do with in the

final weeks. They are clearly responding to what has given them a

shock in the polls, but they are responding together and with great

effort, and it is possible they will be able to convince people, because

after all, the timetable of new powers they promise would mean new

powers for Edinburgh quicker than even independence could deliver.

Lets make this clear: There no power at all, in Gordon Brown 's question

on this, the no campaign had would make, not a single new power is

being admitted to. They may not be new powers in policy terms but they

are for the Scottish parliament, powers Holyrood does not have which

they are talking about devolving, so in that respect they are new. These

are crimes of the Westminster table, the difference between the yes and

no campaign, the no campaign is happy to give people crumbs off the

table which will not help with love `` austerity or the people at food

banks. Income tax isn't a crime off the table? Gordon Brown is the

architect of the repackaging. He is introducing a 5% increase in the

variation of income tax. They will allow 15p variation. That power has

not been used in the history of the Scottish Parliament. More than 15p

higher, would you prefer? For people in Scotland, but the suffering and

Westminster's ``'s austerity, the best thing

and tax levels. It doesn't matter which party, at least it will be the

party Scotland. You have made much of the

NHS in this campaign, Gordon Brown was talking about the NHS and his

experiences of it today. He made the point that it is difficult for you

to argue that budgets in the NHS are being cut because they are being cut

in London when you could use the tax varying powers the Hollywood

Parliament already had to raise more money, but you have never done

that. In this time of austerity that comes from Westminster, seen

hundreds of thousands of ordinary people pushed into poverty, raising

taxes on them is not the wisest thing. So how will you pay for the

NHS? First of all we already pay more tax than our share of

population. let's write it in black and white,

have a free public NHS at cannot privatise the NHS in Scotland

as they do in England. Interesting intervention from Buckingham

the Queen is about the possibility of yes vote, and a statement tonight

has said any suggestion she might intervene in this campaign is

categorically wrong, she is staying above

expect her to be. The Palace say they don't like the idea that her

role is being politicised, so when Alex Salmond said he was sure she

would be proud to be Queen relationship with Her Majesty, she

has been welcomed to Scotland. She has visited the Scottish Government.

We look forward to the continuing in her role as Her Majesty, and it is

wrong for people to bring in the Royal family. The Queen has

performed her role in Peckham the over the decades. For media outlets

for people to use her politically would be incorrect `` impeccably

over the decades. I am please and welcomed the statement from

Buckingham Palace. Thanks very much for talking to us tonight.

There are hundreds of thousands of Scots living in the rest of the UK

who won't get a say on the future of their homeland next week, because

Our senior news correspondent Christian Fraser has been speaking

We are in Belgravia, a piece of Scotland right

in the heart of the capital. They are all discussing... Are you

in the Yes or the No camps? We would like to keep it. This restaurant

celebrates the best of Scottish fare. We have Hebridean crab. Have a

look at the bar, up to 200 single malt whisky. One of them from 1959.

Let's get a view of two Scottish people who have come to join us.

James, a student at Goldsmiths. You are in the Yes camp. And Lisa, who

is here with the next generation! What do you think about the fact you

do not have a vote? I am one of 800,000 Scots who live and work in

the rest of the UK and I am looking on with alarm and astonishment. An

increasing sense of powerlessness as I wait for 4 million other people to

decide on my nationality. I am terrified. Until this week people

were not really thinking about the consequences because it was not so

close. Suddenly, people are realising are we going to wake up

after vote, am I still going to be British? Will I break up a foreigner

in my own home? It has been framed as if it is just about Scotland in

isolation, it is about Britain, it affects the whole of the UK, which

may be dead within days. A lot of people will wake up and feel cheated

they didn't get a say. James, you are in the yes camp. What is it you

like about the idea of an independent Scotland? It is somewhat

a leap of faith but I would like to see Scottish people, even though I

don't get a vote, I would like to see Scottish people in Scotland

stand up and choose ambition over fear. I don't think they should be

afraid of making their own decisions, or afraid of having the

ability to make mistakes. When you have the ability to make mistakes,

you also have the ability to fix them. There are many mistakes that

have been made by governments we have no say over, we have no power

to take out. Alex Salmond bemoans the fact that some a Scots have come

south to earn their living, if Scotland is independent, would you

move back? Possibly. I don't think it would have any bearing on me

wanting to be there because Scotland is a lovely place, I know a lot of

people there and that will not change. Thank you very much. They

are going to have a referendum dear `` dinner here next week. Back to

you in the studio. Stay with BBC News for the latest on

the Scottish referendum. Tomorrow, we will be on the campaign trail

with the main UK party leaders as the main UK party leaders as they

make vote. We will be looking at a number of policy areas, asking what

if Scotland says yes or no? You can get the latest online, including

Regal Alderson asking what an independent Scotland's national

security would be like. That's all for me tonight, you can join us

every night at 7:30pm and 9:30pm. Until then, goodbye.

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