The Last Ditch by Tom Paine

THE LAST DITCH

Scotland go it alone? What a hoot.

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Link: Anti-enterprise Scotland go it alone? What a hoot – Sunday Times – Times Online.

One recent calculation estimates that just 163,000 Scottish taxpayers, from a population of 5m, make any net contribution to the British exchequer. The rest receive more than they pay out in reliefs, subsidies and benefits.

In the name of all that’s holy, will you Scots just go now? 163,000 of you are welcome to apply for English citizenship. You know who you are and if you don’t want to run some very expensive whelk stalls, you need political asylum. Now.

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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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