Former Prime Minister Gordon Brown Calls on 'No Voters' to 'Stand Up and Be Counted'

The referendum's today.

I don't think it'll pass. Perhaps it'll be a close vote, but voters won't approve Scottish devolution. It's just hunch. I haven't looked at a single poll. Great Britain isn't great without Scotland. And both countries will be diminished, to say nothing of dangerously weakened in international politics.

Below, the former prime minister "begging" a no vote.

At at the Telegraph U.K., "Gordon Brown calls on No voters to 'stand up and be counted'":

Former Prime Minister delivers barnstorming speech at final Better Together rally before vote urging Unionists to 'hold your head high' and be confident of victory.

Gordon Brown has urged Unionists to "stand up and be counted" in a barnstorming speech to pro-UK activists on the eve of the Scottish independence vote.

The former prime minister told No voters to "hold your head high" and be "confident" that the majority of Scots will reject Alex Salmond's separatist pitch.

Mr Brown said his rejection of independence was not for himself but for "my children" and "Scotland's children", reminding Scot the vote is "a decision for all time".

The tub-thumping address was delivered to boisterous No activists as Better Together held a final rally before polls open at 7am on Thursday.

It was judged by many commentators as Mr Brown's best and most emotive intervention during a campaign which has seen him become the pro-UK camp's star speaker.

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