Brown inspires

Gordon Brown’s book, My Scotland, Our Britain: A Future Worth Sharing, is not only inspirational, but it is a readable, very human, honest book, presenting an unanswerable case for Scotland’s continuing role in the United Kingdom.

As Gordon Brown convincingly demonstrates, the Union, in spite of its current loss of nerve revealed by the rise in the fortunes of Ukip and the SNP, is a beacon for an increasingly interdependent world.

It is somewhat bizarre that 307 years of achievement are being overshadowed by the failures of the past 35, the reaction to which is a quite unnecessary panic. We must nevertheless thank the SNP for forcing us to 
reassess and consequently recognise the value of the Union as 
a unique constitutional adventure in economics, society and politics.

I have every confidence in the innate common sense and decency of the British people and in thus rejecting the “cultural conceit” of the separatists.

I suggest that there is much good still to be achieved within the context of the UK.

John Milne

Ardgowan Drive

Uddingston