“There is a huge amount of self-reliance as part of the Welsh character. People in Wales are not natural socialists.”
Also: Labour finally select Falkirk candidate; Celtic close down nationalist ultras in ‘Green Brigade’; and BBC News readers propose some post-Union Jacks.
Putting an English Tory – or Gordon Brown – in charge of Better Together is a bonkers idea.
Also: First Green MSP breaks ranks to support the Union; and Scotland and Wales get very different PISA results.
Plus: Get lost, Alex Salmond. My life with Polly Toynbee. Up yours, Jacqui Smith. Why libel lawyers are leeches. And…Fired!!! My Norfolk agony.
The SNP is hoping that today’s White Paper will shift their view – and the debate.
Don’t worry, Scots! You won’t have to pay any pesky extra taxes if you vote for independence. What do those mugs at the IFS know about anything, anyway?
“The rest of the United Kingdom would be asked to stand guarantor for banks over which it had no control”.
Also: Treasury defines limits of possible Welsh tax devolution; SNP and Tories vote down ban on spare-room subsidy evictions.
Also: Scottish punters back the Union. SDLP MP who ended Powell’s parliamentary career dies.
Also: Welsh FM ‘scared’ of tax powers; Independent MSP aims to remove church from Scottish education boards; and things happen in England.
An NHS crisis. Romanians and Bulgarians. Farage on tour. UKIP top the Euro polls. And then…aaarrrgggh…AAARRGGH!
It is being undermined and destroyed by politicians just trying to please the masses.