THE next time you read this column in its regular slot, Scotland will have gone to the polls to take the biggest decision that we will ever face.

It is a decision that will impact on the lives of each and every single person in Scotland for generations.
As we enter the final few days, time is running out for us to weigh things up.
From our very first moments, the Labour movement has realised that it is only by standing together that we can succeed against those who are intent upon seeing power stripped from working people .
Just as when we stood together to create a minimum wage for every worker across the UK.
Just as when the giants of our movement united across the UK to create an NHS and Welfare State for the benefit of everyone in the UK.
By breaking those bonds, we are weaker when standing up for what we believe.
The big businesses – that will seek to hold our governments to ransom for the tax breaks and wage cuts they want – are sharpening their knives.
But we can counter that through the strength that comes from standing together, the power of solidarity that our trade unions understand so well.
That is why so many trade unionists are with us on the streets campaigning for a No vote.
The only answers the nationalists are willing to give, leave us with a massive question mark over what currency we use, and the promise of a massive tax cut for the biggest businesses.
That places the burden of taxation onto ordinary taxpayers.
Salmond and the nationalists are asking ordinary Scots to take the biggest risks, even though they will have the least to gain.  
Their lies on the NHS – already under the full control of the Scottish Parliament – are well documented.
They are a say anything, do anything campaign, that from day one been trying to bully the quiet majority, who are voting No, into silence.
But it is the silent majority that is now finding their voice in this campaign, putting up No Thanks posters and adding a twibbon to Facebook and Twitter.
They understood, right from the start of this campaign, that it wasn’t a choice between change and the status quo.
And they know that only Labour have the clear road to achieving social justice.
They know that Labour will freeze energy prices, putting an end to outrageous price rises and taking the energy companies head on. Not gifting them the massive tax cut promised by the Yes campaign.
They know that Labour will abolish the Bedroom Tax across the whole of the UK. Because if you care about social justice you care about the poor, the disabled, the vulnerable wherever they happen to live.
And they know that it is Labour who will support the introduction of the living wage, so we can see higher wages – opposed by the SNP – being paid to workers across Scotland.
The choice is clear. If you value social justice, vote no on September 18.