I think it is more sinister than that – Milliband’s xenophobia – not on a practical but on a psych level, and he is using his children in a powerbrokering way.
Childrren are a currency worth more than an adult on the emotional market. Children in Need nets more than Adults in Need every would; pets are a slightly different matter but we shall leave them – no one has mentioned their pets in this yet although Kermit…
We have opened this interlocution of the negotiations with the highest emotional currency: children . Not our own (grand)children – like Tom Brown or Sillars but Eds. Ed has amplified and inflated that currency – where Wiles attempted deflation of the YesChildren in her perversion of fact; the MacTrapped kids were relatively uninflated – of children with xenophobia, not just any xenophobia but Marks and Spencer’s children’s fears.
What is decidedly bizarre is the subversion-inversion of – if you like – subject and object. We the Scots vote Yes, and the impact on the English (Object) is… With Milliband’s example we have the Millikids and Dad as Subject and us as Object. The exhortation is thrown out that our vote Self-Determination, that even Hillary and Obama, far less the Chinese Premier clearly tried to avoid saying was anything other than a matter for us, should be predicated not on the best interests of self, neighbours and nation but on the whimiscal impact on the Millikids (and maybe the Camekids – let’s not be exclusive; the name suggests Scots forebears). We become object and not subject.
This really clearly underlines the perception of our nation, worth and resources by rUK: we are objects (of use and income), who should not vote on the grounds of our own best interests. It subverts Self-Determination as much as misappropriating of UKGov funds for the MacTraooed Children Brochure or for these polls which have not been published but have informed terms of discourse for the not-in-it-to-win-it officially UKGov, No Borders, and Better Together/No Thanks.