Divided we fall

If the latest opinion polls predicting a Yes vote are accurate, it will be a tragic day on 19 September.

A 307-year-old union which has served Scotland well will be torn apart.

We will be independent from the bigger picture and become an inward-looking country with no place on the global scene.

The country will be in disarray as the Nationalists’ white paper on the future of Scotland will be found to be without a firm basis and failing to address key issues.

Huge amounts of energy, money and talent will be expended for years to come on trying to overcome a currency disunion, entry to the EU, and joining Nato with no leverage and no guarantees of success.

I cannot fathom why my country would put itself in such a position, breaking away from a Union which has seen us through two world wars, provides for our own legal system, education, national health service and as most recently demonstrated underpins our financial system.

It worries me reading posts, that the main argument for our independence is oil money to be duly doled out to the general population. To achieve this are international contracts to be renegotiated? Are we to become another Venezuela in nationalising the industry?

By the time they have figured that one out, our oil wells will be near dry. I love Scotland. I would be heartbroken to see my country separate from the UK and then evolve into a banana republic. I and millions of overseas Scots would also be very angry.

We have earned a right over the past 307 years to be part of the UK. We have every right to stay there and continue to benefit from the Union, one we have helped shape.

This could all now be given up forever, and we have no right to vote on it, only because we do not currently reside in Scotland.

How Alex Salmond got away with that ploy, I will never know.

Westminster’s complacency through all this is astonishing. United we stand, divided we fall.

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