The Archive · 1940

SCOTLAND'S STRATEGY

Nine Members in H. M. Government

While so much attention is being given to the prosecution of the war, Scotland is steadily continuing its conquest of England, There are only four-and-a-half million Scotsmen in Scotland so, obviously, their strategy has had to be of a very cunning variety. They could not invade England, They had to think of something more certain and quickly effective. They decided simply—and they are a simple people—to conquer the Government. They are rapidly doing so. The Government of Britain is usually composed of a score of worthy men—some of whom have been English since Mr. Lloyd George gave up governing the country and the late Mr, Ramsay MacDonald resigned—and when the war broke out Mr, Chamberlain so mono-policed attention that we did not think of others. Today this number has been inflated by war Ministries and now numbers 28,

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