Polls currently suggest only a third of Scots back independence, but the unionist campaign is in disarray and the nationalists boast a leader who even his opponents admit is a highly skilled political operator.
Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister and leader of the SNP, is the man plotting the demise of the 304-year-old union of the two countries. He hopes his fellow citizens will heed the message of another tune, “Flower of Scotland,” the unofficial national anthem which urges Scots to “rise now and be a nation again.”
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Salmond told reporters that separation from the U.K. was an idea “whose time has come.”
- Scotland to split from UK and ‘be a nation again’? MSNBC.com, June 7, 2011.
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