VETERAN Home Rule campaigner Kenyon Wright has claimed "devolution is no longer enough" and that Westminster will "take revenge on Scotland" in the event of a No vote next month.
But former Labour minister John Reid will rally Labour faithful at a miners' club in Midlothian, where he will say the record of the nationalists throughout history and in government shows their priorities are not those of the Labour Party.
Canon Kenyon Wright, former Scottish Constitutional Convention chairman, criticised the "scaremongering" of the No campaign and insisted: "I believe the suggestions of revenge against the Scots emanating from Westminster are very real if there was a No vote on September 18.
"There will undoubtedly be cuts to the Barnett Formula, affecting the NHS in Scotland, social security and that benefits will suffer. We've already had George Osborne and his 'bedroom tax' and I envisage devolution being undermined despite promises of more powers. Not that I believe that the devolved parliament will be abolished, but its powers will be diminished.
"Like many, I argued for a second question offering a middle way, which I saw not as devolution but as 'constitutionally secure autonomy within a reformed UK'. That door was slammed shut, but not by Scotland."
A very different message will be delivered to Labour stalwarts in the mining community of Dalkeith, south of Edinburgh, today when Lord Reid, one of the most senior ministers of the Blair government, warns Labour voters not to be seduced into believing promises by Alex Salmond about social justice.
Lord Reid will say: "My message to those who share my belief that the Labour Party is the best vehicle for making our country a fairer place is simply this, don't be fooled by Alex Salmond.
"Don't be taken in by his claims on social justice. The nationalists have historically opposed the Labour Party. Whilst UK Labour governments were getting on with improving the lives of working people right across the UK - through the creation of the minimum wage, the NHS, the welfare state and stopping the banks from collapsing, the nationalists were campaigning for separation."
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