Introduction: Breaking Britain
Chapter One: The Other Union
Chapter Two: The English Speak
Chapter Three: The Cash Nexus
Chapter Four: The Crumbling Pillars
Chapter Five: The Poisonous Elephant
Conclusion: The Re-imagining of the Union
John Lloyd is a Contributing Editor for the Financial Times, where he has been Labour Editor, East Europe Editor and Moscow Bureau Chief. His books include Loss without Limit: the British Miners' Strike (with Martin Adeney), Rebirth of a Nation: An Anatomy of Russia, What the Media are doing to our Politics, and The Power and the Story: The Global Battle for News.
John Lloyd has written a personal and moving but also historically
informed plea to preserve the Union between England and Scotland.
His argument is not just the familiar one that the Scottish
National Party understates the economic risks of independence. He
also shows how little sense separation makes in the present state
of Europe and the world. Best of all, his is not merely a defence
of the status quo, but a call to regenerate the Union.
Niall Ferguson, Milbank Family Senior Fellow, the Hoover
Institution, Stanford
John Lloyd is a shrewd, eloquent and reliable purveyor of home
truths. His new book on the Scottish Question, which calls out?lazy
sentimentality and wishful thinking, will cause controversy as well
as consternation in many quarters.
Colin Kidd, University of St Andrews
Scotland like the rest of the UK remains deeply divided following
referendums on our future. The questions raised in both 2014 and
2016 remain the same. And if breaking a relationship of 40 years
has proved so intractable, how much harder would be the fracture of
a relationship thats lasted more than 300 years? In a forensic
examination of the arguments of both heart and head, John Lloyd
makes a powerful case for building on the strengths we have rather
than plunging into years of uncertainty and of lost opportunity for
generations to come.
Alistair Darling, Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Clearly
written and well researched, Lloyd's book should decisively change
the debate about Scottish independence.
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