Scotland, close the door on your way out - please don't slam it.
Jeremy Paxman delivers final insult to the Scots - Times Online
As the traditional advice for children goes, if there is one thing worse than being teased, it’s being ignored. Jeremy Paxman, an expert in the oft-practised art of baiting the Scots, has finally come out with the most hurtful insult of all - he’s simply not bothered about them.Paxman said: “I think the view down here would be ‘if our friends in Scotland decide they don’t want the Union to continue any longer, well that is a judgment for them’. And if they really don’t want to be sharing the same house with us, and want to move out, well that’s a bit of a shame. It is like watching a marriage decay among friends.
“But if that’s what they want, well, let them do it. You really ought to snap out of this sense that everyone down here is worried about it. They are not. The English have been allowed no voice in this.”
Paxman has form when it comes to cross-Border relationships. He once claimed that it was “tremendously good fun winding Scots up” because it was so easy.