GORDON Brown steps down from the platform, brushes away the beads of sweat beginning to form on those wavy locks and accepts the applause from the acolytes gathered below. “Now is not the time for a referendum,” he’s just told them. “And it never will be time because Scotland is, uwah, better with the broad shoulders of the UK taking the weight of the many challenges over the, uwah, economic uncertainty of Brexit and this, uwah, lethal pandemic.
“I warned of the economic, uwah, apocalypse that awaited Scotland if we ripped ourselves out of this great British Union and thankfully the, uwah, nation heeded my call.”