THERE IS NO BRITAIN:

Brown vows to be at forefront of campaign to defeat Nationalists (JAMES KIRKUP, 1/13/07, The Scotsman)

GORDON Brown today stakes his personal political credibility on his ability to defeat the Scottish National Party, promising to put himself at the head of a new campaign to save the Union between Scotland and England.

With the 300th anniversary of the Treaty of Union due next week, the Chancellor uses an interview in The Scotsman to announce a concerted effort to prevent the break-up of the UK.

Polls show the SNP with a real chance of beating Labour in May's Holyrood election, and Mr Brown is desperate to avoid a Nationalist triumph that would cast a dark shadow over what he and his inner circle assume will be his first months as prime minister.

One problem: the English don't want them.

Posted by Orrin Judd at January 13, 2007 10:56 AM