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Briton Of The Year

Posted on December 27, 2011 by

…according to today’s edition of The Times, is Alex Salmond. If you were wondering:

“We are fully aware of the irony of awarding this title to someone who does not believe in the idea of Britain itself.”

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22bstar

hi, do you have the profile article on Alex Salmond?

Erchie

Pretty sure Alex Salmond holds Britain to be an indisputable fact, barring tectonic shift or Arthur's Seat doing something interesting
Unless you can only be a Briton is you accept the rule of the Anglo-Norman Westminster, now THAT'S ironic

TYRAN

"How Scotland got brave about independence" is in today's Times. Not that I can see it. 


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