Gordon Brown Makes Best Case for Scotland to Remain Part of the United Kingdom

[JI7]

Once mocked for claiming to have saved the world after the 2008 financial crisis, former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown may now have the fate of Scotland in his hands.

"We created a United Kingdom minimum wage, a United Kingdom public health service, a United Kingdom welfare state," Brown told a packed meeting of Labour supporters in the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow, Scotland's biggest city.

"What we progressives have created over the last century, let no nationalist split asunder," the Scot - widely respected by his countrymen as the son of a Presbyterian preacher - thundered, fists clenched, to applause and cheers.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1120699/Gordon-Brown-roars-life-eve-historic-Scottish-vote.html

In a rallying cry that electrified the crowd and has been widely seen as one of the best speeches of his life, Brown appealed to both the hearts and the heads of Scottish voters. "There is not a cemetery in Europe that does not have Scots, English, Welsh and Irish lined side by side," he said. "We not only won these wars together, we built the peace together. What we have built together by sacrificing and sharing, let no narrow nationalism split asunder ever."

He added: "The vote tomorrow is not about whether Scotland is a nation, we are. Yesterday, today and tomorrow. Let us tell the undecided. The waverers. Those not sure how to vote. Let us tell them what we have achieved together."

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/09/17/gordon-brown-scottish-independence-speech_n_5834678.html

[Nye Bevan]

1. I hope he succeeds. Independence could be a disaster for the Scots (nt)