EX-PRIME minister Gordon Brown promised Scots yesterday a “faster, safer, better, friendlier” path to greater powers if they vote No in today’s crunch referendum.

The Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath MP delivered a passionate eve-of-poll speech flanked by activists in Glasgow in which he predicted defeat for the Scottish National Party.

“The silent majority will be silent no more,” he said, branding the Yes campaign’s message one of “narrow nationalism.”

The ex-PM was among those who addressed a final mass rally to build support for the No campaign, which took place a stone’s throw from a pro-independence rally in the centre of the city.

Better Together campaign chief Alistair Darling was led into the hall by a lone piper, where he joined Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont and her Tory and Lib Dem counterparts.

But it was Mr Brown who made the biggest impression.

He issued doom-laden warnings to voters that a vote to break with the union would lead the nation into “an economic minefield where problems could implode at any time.

“This is not the fear of the unknown — this is now the risks of the known.”

Mr Brown added that “the vote tomorrow is not about whether Scotland is a nation — we are, yesterday, today and tomorrow.

“It’s not about whether there is a Scottish parliament — we have it.

“It’s not about whether there are increased powers, we are all agreed to increase the powers.
“The vote tomorrow is whether you want to break and sever every link.”