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Hugo Rifkind

The real threat to Britain (and it’s not the SNP)

Labour's commitment to the Union is as shallow as the Tories' – which, it is now clear, is saying something

21 March 2015

9:00 AM

21 March 2015

9:00 AM

What a load of mendacious balls everybody talks about Scotland. It’s like a disease. It’s like, you know how they say Ebola probably started in some festering bat cave in Guinea? Well, the referendum campaign was that cave. We had secret oilfields and fantasies about the NHS and endless guff about austerity being done for evil Tory fun, and the VOW the VOW and, dear God, the relief when it ended.

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Hugo Rifkind is a writer for the Times.

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