ABERDEEN: British Prime Minister David Cameron yesterday made a trip to Scotland to urge Scots to vote against independence and warned them of dire consequences otherwise in his most forceful speech yet ahead of this week’s historic referendum.
Cameron was speaking in Aberdeen on what could be his last visit to Scotland before the vote on Thursday and promised to give Scotland sweeping new powers in the event of a “No” result against independence.
“Head, heart and soul, we want you to stay,” Cameron said to applause from a mostly elderly audience of hundreds of people who were bussed in for the event in a city that is a hub for Scotland’s offshore oil and gas industry.
“Independence would not be a trial separation, it would be a painful divorce,” he warned.
A “Yes” victory would endanger pensions and put up a physical border between England and Scotland that “may not be so easily crossed,” he continued.
He said Scotland’s pro-independence government had outlined a future that was “too good to be true”, and added: “I don’t want the people of Scotland to be sold a dream that will disappear.”
“There is no going back from this”, he said.
A “Yes” win would be “the end of a country that all of us call home, and we built this home together”.
AFP
