I got a text from a mischievous friend in London this morning.
‘David Cameron has asked me to ask you not to leave the UK. We would miss you all awfully if you did and the Olympics were jolly fun with you on board,’ it said.
I don’t think this was quite what the Prime Minister had in mind when he decided to appeal to the English, Welsh and Northern Irish to use their powers of persuasion to get us Scots to stay in the Union. But if that wasn’t what he wanted, then what was it?
The Prime Minister’s big speech on the Union today is both interesting and difficult for a Scottish audience to hear. For a start, the speech is about Scotland, it is focused on the battle for Scottish independence and it is about us, the Scots, and the decision we will have to make in seven months’ time. But
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