Alex Salmond on wanting to split Scotland from UK (15Jan12)

SNP leader Alex Salmond is grilled about holding a referendum on whether Scotland should split from the UK, and how that could take place and consequences of such a split.

Recorded from BBC Sunday Politics (Scotland Edition), 15 January 2012.

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[TerryAshfields]

God Bless you Alex. If not for SNP who would be sticking up for Scotland. Not Tories, not labour, not liberals. They all sold us down the river and ditched their principles for power in doing so. The demonizing of Scotland and SNP has already started, but if they think Scotland listens to tories theya re living in cloud cuckoo land. The tories who have elected in Scotland in the last 20 years could fit in a mini.

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

"... and the subverter of his own rights and ours, and install another King who would make good our defence. Because, while a hundred of us remain alive, we will not submit in the slightest measure, to the domination of the English. We do not fight for honour, riches, or glory, but solely for freedom which no true man gives up but with his life."

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

"... the right of succession and the due consent and assent of all of us have made him our leader and our king. To this man, inasmuch as he saved our people, and for upholding our freedom, we are bound by right as much as by his merits, and choose to follow him in all that he does. But if he should cease from these beginnings, wishing to give us or our kingdom to the English or the king of the English, we would immediately take steps to drive him out as the enemy ..."

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

"... From these countless evils, with His help who afterwards soothes and heals wounds, we are freed by our tireless leader, king, and master, Lord Robert, who like another Maccabaeus or Joshua, underwent toil and tiredness, hunger and danger with a light spirit in order to free the people and his inheritance from the hands of his enemies. And now, the divine Will, our just laws and customs, which we will defend to the death, ...."

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

"... our leaderless kingdom and our people who were accustomed neither to evil or treachery nor to battles or ambushes. He committed injustices, killings, attacks, robberies, arson, the imprisonment of priests, the burning of monasteries, the looting of churches, and countless other enormous outrages, on the said people sparing no one on account of age or sex, saintliness or rank, to an extent that no one could describe nor fully believe unless they had experienced it. ..."

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

"... In their own kingdom, one hundred and thirteen kings have reigned of their own Blood Royal, without interruption by foreigners. (…) Thus, obviously, the result was that until now our people lived free and untroubled under their protection until that mighty prince, Edward, King of the English, the father of he who now reigns, came with the appearance of a friend and ally to harass like an enemy, ..."

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

"Afterwards, coming from there, one thousand two hundred years from the Israelite people's crossing of the Red Sea, to its home in the west, which it now holds, having first thrown out the Britons and completely destroyed the Picts, and even though it was often attacked by the Norse, the Danes and the English, it fought back with many victories and countless labours and it has held itself ever since, free from all slavery, as the historians of old testify. ..."

[FireEyedMaidOfWar]

@ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER: The battles of Dunbar and Culloden do not seem to me as an enthusiastic expression of Scots towards the English empire but like the last desperate stand of a small nation against a numerically superior invader! While Scotland is a very ancient kingdom and therefore is a realm; while poor Queen Elizabeth II might seek refuge in Scotland should the English elect ever again someone like Tony Blair; and I will invoke the Declaration of Arbroath:

[Geordieerskine]

Alex Salmond A real Scot's Name?

As an Erskine I would not want that person to represent my opinion! Nor the Country he insists he is the head of?? He is nothing else than a person whom has a rather large chip upon his shoulder! I as an Erskine am Against Scotland separating this United Kingdom of ours!"

[ENGLISHDOGSOLDIER]

@FireEyedMaidOfWar Scotland won't have a "Realm" because it's not a kingdom is it?

Less of course they want independence with Queen Liz as head of state as Australia,New Zealand and Canada to name but a handful.