SYMPATHY isn’t the prevailing sentiment within the nationalist community towards Gordon Brown, it’s more often hostile or even venomous. That’s understandable given his interventions in the independence referendum where the Vow most certainly mattered, but I have to confess that I feel sorry for him in many ways. . http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16337130.kenny-macaskill-gordon-brown-is-a-figure-to-be-pitied-as-much-as-censured/