The following people have signed a letter to ask us to stay in the UK.
I've no idea who most of them are, but I am wondering how many of them are personally affected by what happens in this country. I'm wondering, too, how many of them have been hurt by the likes of Iain Duncan Smug, Esther McVile or Lord Fraud. I wonder if any of them are forced to use a Food Bank, or don't have access to private health care if the NHS as we know it disappears completely.
I wonder it, in fact, what they are is worried that the loss of Scottish revenue might mean their taxes will have to go up.
I recognise some of the names... I mean who doesn't know McJagger and Cliff Richard, Melvyn Bragg and David Starkey, Sandie Shaw and Ben Ainsley.
I'm disappointed to see David Attenborough's name there. I'd have thought him above getting involved in this. The rest seem to be the usual suspects. Labour activists and very rich people from England, or further afield. I wonder how many of them really live in Scotland or even the UK. Doesn't McJagger live in America, and Cliff in the Bahamas?
Now they have every right to ask us to stay... as does a wee woman living in Phnom Penh. For that matter I have every right to write to the people of Greenland and tell them never to ditch Denmark.
I just wouldn't do it, because it's not my business and I don't know nearly enough about it.
Still I expect Sandie Shaw does.
I've no idea who most of them are, but I am wondering how many of them are personally affected by what happens in this country. I'm wondering, too, how many of them have been hurt by the likes of Iain Duncan Smug, Esther McVile or Lord Fraud. I wonder if any of them are forced to use a Food Bank, or don't have access to private health care if the NHS as we know it disappears completely.
I wonder it, in fact, what they are is worried that the loss of Scottish revenue might mean their taxes will have to go up.
I recognise some of the names... I mean who doesn't know McJagger and Cliff Richard, Melvyn Bragg and David Starkey, Sandie Shaw and Ben Ainsley.
I'm disappointed to see David Attenborough's name there. I'd have thought him above getting involved in this. The rest seem to be the usual suspects. Labour activists and very rich people from England, or further afield. I wonder how many of them really live in Scotland or even the UK. Doesn't McJagger live in America, and Cliff in the Bahamas?
Now they have every right to ask us to stay... as does a wee woman living in Phnom Penh. For that matter I have every right to write to the people of Greenland and tell them never to ditch Denmark.
I just wouldn't do it, because it's not my business and I don't know nearly enough about it.
Still I expect Sandie Shaw does.
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| Mick Jagger (SIR) |
William Dalrymple
Eddie Izzard
Sir Patrick Stewart
Sir Bruce Forsyth
Sir Mick Jagger
Stephen Hawking
Jenny Agutter
Sir Ben Ainslie
Kriss Akabusi
Roger Allam
Kirstie Allsop
Alexander Armstrong
Sir David Attenborough
Steve Backley
Baroness Joan Bakewell
Frances Barber
Andy Barrow
John Barrowman
Mike Batt
Glen Baxter
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| Cliff Richard (SIR) |
David Aaronovitch
Helena Bonham-Carter
Stanley Baxter
Martin Bayfield
Mary Beard
Sarah Beeny
Anthony Beevor
Angelica Bell
Dickie Bird
Cilla Black
Graeme Black
Roger Black
Malorie Blackman
Ranjit Bolt
Alain de Botton
William Boyd
Tracey Brabin
Lord Melvyn Bragg
Jo Brand
Gyles Brandreth
Rob Brydon
Louisa Buck
Simon Callow
Will Carling
Paul Cartledge
Guy Chambers
Nick Cohen
Michelle Collins
Colonel Tim Collins
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| Bruce Forsyth (SIR) |
Olivia Colman
Charlie Condou
Susannah Constantine
Steve Coogan
Dominic Cooper
Ronnie Corbett
Simon Cowell
Jason Cowley
Sara Cox
Amanda Craig
Steve Cram
Richard Curtis
Tom Daley
Richard Dawkins
Dame Judi Dench
Jeremy Deller
Lord Michael Dobbs
Jimmy Doherty
Michael Douglas
Simon Easterby
Gareth Edwards
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| Sandie Shaw (?) |
Jonathan Edwards
Tracey Emin
Sebastian Faulks
Bryan Ferry
Ranulph Fiennes
Ben Fogle
Amanda Foreman
Neil Fox
Emma Freud
Bernard Gallacher
Kirsty Gallacher
George Galloway
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Bamber Gascoigne
David Gilmour
Harvey Goldsmith
David Goodhart
Lachlan Goudie
David Gower
AC Grayling
Will Greenwood
Tamsin Greig
Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
Lord Charles Guthrie
Haydn Gwynne
Maggi Hambling
Mehdi Hasan
Sir Max Hastings
Peter Hennessy
James Holland
Tom Holland
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| Andrew Lloyd Webber (SIR and LORD) |
Tom Hollander
Gloria Hunniford
Conn Iggledun
John Illsley
Brendan Ingle
Betty Jackson
Sir Mike Jackson
Howard Jacobson
Baroness PD James
Griff Rhys Jones
Terry Jones
Christopher Kane
Sir Anish Kapoor
Ross Kemp
Paul Kenny
Jemima Khan
India Knight
Martha Lane Fox
Baroness Doreen Lawrence
Tory Lawrence
Kathy Lette
Rod Liddle
Louise Linton
John Lloyd (journalist)
John Lloyd (producer)
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| Vera Lynn (DAME) |
Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber
Gabby Logan
Kenny Logan
Sarah Lucas
Dame Vera Lynn
James May
Margaret MacMillan
Stephen Mangan
Davina McCall
Sir Ian McGeechan
Heather McGregor
Andy McNab
John Michie
David Mitchell
Lord John Monks
Lewis Moody
Michael Morpurgo
Bill Morris
David Morrissey
Philip Mould
Al Murray
Neil Stuke
Sir Paul Nurse
Andy Nyman
Peter Oborne
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| Michael Parkinson (SIR) |
Sir Michael Parkinson
Fiona Phillips
Andy Puddicombe
Lord David Puttnam
Anita Rani
Esther Rantzen
Sir Steve Redgrave
Derek Redmond
Pete Reed
Lord Martin Rees
Peter Reid
Baroness Ruth Rendell
Sir Cliff Richard
Hugo Rifkind
Sir Tony Robinson
David Rowntree
Ian Rush
Greg Rutherford
CJ Sansom
June Sarpong
Simon Schama
John Sessions
Sandie Shaw
Helen Skelton
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| Hercule Poirot |
Sir Tim Smit
Dan Snow
Peter Snow
Phil Spencer
David Starkey
Lord Jock Stirrup
Neil Stuke
Sting
Tallia Storm
David Suchet
Alan Sugar
Graeme Swann
Stella Tennant
Daley Thompson
Alan Titchmarsh
James Timpson
Kevin Toolis
Lynne Truss
Gavin Turk
Roger Uttley
David Walliams
Zoë Wanamaker
Robert Webb
Richard Wentworth
Sir Alan West
Dominic West
Kevin Whately
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