Salmond calls Westminster team’s visit to Scotland as panicky

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond has called the arrival of all three elite Westminster leaders of the main pro-union parties to Scotland on Wednesday to persuade people for voting in favour of union at next Thursday’s independence referendum, as last-minute panicky.

British Prime Minister David Cameron, Labour leader Ed Miliband and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg have reached the north of the border travelling separately to convince Scots to vote ‘No’ to independence, offering instead a fast-tracked timetable for further devolution of tax powers and welfare spending to Holyrood after the next U.K. election.

The Conservative leader and the leader of opposition have skipped their weekly appearance in parliamentary debate at London over flying to Scotland to save the union with just eight days remaining before the historic vote take place to decide the country’s future.

Mr Cameron has said in a passionate address at Edinburgh: “I love my country more than I love my party.”

Adding: “I would be heartbroken if this family of nations that we’ve put together and that we’ve done such amazing things together, if this family of nations was torn apart.”

The PM has also expressed his to speak from the heart about an “extraordinary” united country.

While, Mr Miliband has said in a speech at Cumbernauld, Lanarkshire that the case for Scotland to stay in the United Kingdom came from the “head, heart and soul”.

He has also added that the Scots’ “thirst for change” can only be satisfied by remaining in unity with U.K. rather than breaking apart.

But Mr Salmond has dismissed the initiative as a smokescreen, saying that the visit of the three top British leaders refers to their desperation: “What we’re seeing today on the other side is Team Westminster jetting up to Scotland for the day because they’re panicking in the campaign.”

The SNP leader has also called all the three leaders as “the least trusted Westminster leaders ever” and told: “This day-trip will galvanise the Yes vote. No-one believes their panicked pledges – it is a phoney timetable for measly powers. A Yes vote delivers a real timetable for the full powers that Scotland needs.”

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