It couldn’t have been happening to a more deserved nation, after PM Cameron threatened to quit the European Union, the Scots placed an attack on the Union Jack. Queen Elisabeth II has made it clear she won’t interfere, busy as she is with her grandchildren and her son heir to the throne at age 65. The havoc wrought by the British Empire and its dissolution is felt today in it’s former colonies extending from Hong Kong through South Asia into the Middle East. I would be glad to have the UK pull out of Europe. Out of Germany I hear positive news, the polls indicate the regency of the U.S. over Germany should end soon.
Scottish independence: Don’t rip Union apart – PM
DAVID Cameron pleaded with Scotland not to rip apart the Union as he issued a warning that independence is a “leap into the dark” from which there is no going back.
The Prime Minister told voters “we desperately want you to stay” as he prepared to travel north to hit the campaign trail today with Labour leader Ed Miliband and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg.
In an article for the Daily Mail, the premier set out some of the United Kingdom’s greatest achievements – including the Scottish enlightenment, the abolition of slavery and defeating fascism – to highlight “what is at stake” on September 18.
The rest of the world “looks on with awe and envy” at the modern British achievements such as the National Health Service and state pension system, Mr Cameron added.
He wrote: “The United Kingdom is a precious and special country. That is what is at stake. So let no-one in Scotland be in any doubt: we desperately want you to stay; we do not want this family of nations to be ripped apart.
David Cameron, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg are to travel north in a last ditch bid to save the UK
Last night, Alex Salmond branded the visit, which comes as Scotland’s future sits on a knife-edge, as a sign of “total and utter panic”. The First Minister said the No campaign was “falling apart” with just eight days to go before the historic referendum.
Mr Salmond also dismissed a timetable for delivering more powers which was set out by the No parties yesterday, insisting these have already been “rejected by Scots”. Backbench Tory MPs also voiced concerns last night over the “vague” promises of more Holyrood powers and indicated Mr Cameron may be forced to quit in the event of a Yes vote.
UK EU Referendum: David Cameron Promises In-Out Vote In 2015
By Andrew Osborn and Peter Griffiths | Reuters | Wed Jan 23, 2013 |LONDON – Prime Minister David Cameron promised to give Britons a referendum choice on whether to stay in the European Union or leave if he wins an election in 2015, placing a question mark over Britain’s membership for years.
Cameron ended months of speculation by announcing in a speech the plan for a vote sometime between 2015 and the end of 2017, shrugging off warnings that this could imperil Britain’s economic prospects and alienate its biggest trading partner.
He said the island nation, which joined the EU’s precursor European Economic Community 40 years ago, did not want to retreat from the world, but public disillusionment with the EU was at “an all-time high”.
“It is time for the British people to have their say. It is time for us to settle this question about Britain and Europe,” Cameron said. His Conservative party will campaign for the 2015 election promising to renegotiate Britain’s EU membership.
“When we have negotiated that new settlement, we will give the British people a referendum with a very simple in or out choice to stay in the European Union on these new terms; or come out altogether. It will be an in-out referendum.”
