The 'vision thing' competes with the fear factor on Scotland's big day

The yes camp's supporters seemed to be making all the noise on Thursday but the quieter no voters were no less determined

As his car swung past the bus station in Gordon Brown's home town of Kirkcaldy on Thursday a young man waved a clenched fist out of his car window and shouted "Ayeee" at no one in particular. "I think he's a yesser" explained a passerby helpfully.

With Scotland voting in record numbers on the greatest existential challenge to the British state since Spitfire dogfights in 1940, not every Scot felt quite so gleefully uninhibited. Far from it. Along Kirkcaldy's High Street, some no supporters heading to and from the Philip hall polling station were decidedly more reticent.

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