From the archive: Call for end to Scots apathy - 8 April, 1950
“I wonder if the people who are telling us it would be economically dangerous for us to govern ourselves realise their assertions can be rewarded like this: we are taking money out of the pockets of the people of England for which we give no return and we had better not disturb a system which thus enables us to live like parasites on other people’s wealth. It displays a spineless complacency about a situation which, if it did indeed exist, would be almost as immoral as plain theft. For such people the national arms should be not the Lion Rampant but a sodden sponge upon a field of gold, enclosed within festoons of dry rot fungus.”