The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

THE LAST DITCH

Scots split would harm UK – Brown

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Link: BBC NEWS | UK | Scots split would harm UK – Brown.

The only person South of the Border that Mr Brown is concerned about is Mr Brown. His career prospects would be severely limited if Scotland and England were finally to stop fighting like kittens in a sack called the “United Kingdom.”

Scotland may contribute something to our culture, but I am sure they will still sell us their bagpiping CD’s and shortbread when they are an independent nation. As for our economy, they are Slovakia to our Czech Republic. We will be richer (and a whole lot less Socialist) without them.

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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.

Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.

He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that

“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”

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