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Gordon Brown on Scottish independence.

By New Statesman Published 14 August 2012 7:20

Former prime minister Gordon Brown. Photograph: Getty Images.

Forme prime minister Gordon Brown leaves after giving evidence at the Leveson inquiry. Photograph: Getty Images.

The Olympics it is pretty clear – we managed to do it in cycling with pooled resources – if you had just divided the money and put a tenth to Scotland and a tenth to Yorkshire, you could not have achieved the same results we did.

Gordon Brown says Britain's Olympic success is another reason to oppose Scottish independence.

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6 comments

Tue, 2012-08-14 18:50 — Karim (not verified)

That doesn't even make sense, in any sense of the word "sense". Brown really is a pillock. Couldn't organise a knees up in a brewery. Couldn't even find the darn brewery!

Tue, 2012-08-14 17:16 — Stuart Eels (not verified)

Speak for yourself Michael Dixon, I was daft enough to vote Lib/Dem, never again.

Tue, 2012-08-14 17:13 — Michael Dixon (not verified)

And to think the majority of people who read the New Statesman actually voted Labour when this person was in charge.

Tue, 2012-08-14 19:18 — Uncle Al (not verified)

Based on the absolute mess the current lot are making, that wasn't such a bad thing, you know. Fail.

Tue, 2012-08-14 13:04 — Herbert (not verified)

Isn't it time this discredited twerp went off and got a chair at some American university or other?

Tue, 2012-08-14 11:14 — Cath (not verified)

By that logic, we should join together into a greater Europe. Pool all our taxes into a centralised fund in Brussels and have a team EU that all train together on the continent and those even greater pooled resources will bring us - Better Together as the EU - even more gold medals.