Keep Scotland and England together for sake of NHS and pensions, says Gordon Brown "I want to to put the case for the pooling and sharing of resources right across the United Kingdom, and the benefit we all get in Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland from UK pensions, from UK National Insurance, from UK funding of healthcare, from the UK minimum wage," he said. But I want to make the case, the most modern case for the Union, for the pooling and sharing of resources so that we are in a position to tackle poverty, unemployment together. We are in a position to fund a National Health Service based on the principle that it is free at the point of need. Therefore, I want to make the case for a Union for social justice, dominated by our principle of fairness. Mr Brown, the MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath, has spent most of the last three years away from public life. However, he is the latest senior political figure to join the campaign for Scotland to stay as part of the UK before a referendum on the issue next year. The Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats all want Scotland to vote against independence, while Alex Salmond, the First Minister of Scotland and leader of the SNP, wants his country to split from England. Alistair Darling, Mr Brown's former chancellor and another Scot, is leading the effort to keep the United Kingdom under the Better Together campaign.