The Unionists (Labour here) have reacted with statements like:
"Separation would mean hundreds of thousands of children and grandchildren, parents and grandparents, overnight becoming 'English' or 'Scottish', but not British, being forced to choose which passports to hold."
Good one. They should start by granting the independence to Northern Ireland so that Irish families north and south of the border can reunite and they are not forced to choose a foreign passport. How can they be such hypocrites?
British Home Minister John Reid has also accused the SNP of being unable to face
"the challenges of the coming decade" such as the environment, organised crime, international terrorism and mass migration.
"These are the great new issues of our age in front of which narrow nationalism stands helpless [...]"
Amazing that a Labour would speak of the challenges of mass migration which they have promoted for decades. Not to speak of what the messed they've done in Iraq, helping an increase in Islamic terrorist support.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–