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Cameron has whipped British nationalists into a frenzy, Miliband has resorted to monument raising, the Independent is penning wartime-style editorials, Brown rallies the faithful, plurality is equated to crisis, the centre cannot hold and there are only hours to save the union. The British political establishment is reverting to full on apocalyptic mode, in what may yet become a seasonal habit.
Taken as part of a longer view: such an orgy of odd behaviour has at least in part been fuelled by the fact that Scottish politics is front and centre of a UK general election, rather than taking up its traditional background role.
