Scots plea to retain the apron strings
Telegraph | News | SAS clan calls for new fight to save the Union
A new political party is being set up by a member of one of Scotland's most historic families to try to halt the growing bandwagon towards a referendum on the break-up of the United Kingdom.
The reason - the "failures" of devolution.
"Two-thirds of 14-year-olds fail national reading standards and half fail writing standards," it says. "One in four Scots working for the public sector. A crime committed every 78 seconds. The highest infant mortality in the western world. A £20 billion subsidy from England to keep us afloat. We anticipated excellence. We have been offered only ineptitude."
And what is in it for the English?
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"And what is in it for the English?"
That's a trick question, isn't it?
Posted by: Kim du Toit | January 6, 2007 1:22 AM