LONDON ¨C The British minister in charge of Scotland has issued a stark warning that the country could sleepwalk into a split from the U.K. because unmotivated unionists are failing to wake up to the threat posed by Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond¡¯s nationalists.
Amid clear signs of tension and division in the ¡°no¡± campaign (against Scottish independence from the United Kingdom), the Scottish secretary (minister for Scotland), Alistair Carmichael, said he believed the nationalists had greater ¡°hunger¡± for victory and could create an unstoppable momentum.
Carmichael, a Liberal Democrat, said he believed the ¡°yes¡± campaign (for Scottish independence from the U.K.), which he said was possibly the best financed in British political history, could well move ahead in the polls during the run-up to the Sept. 18 referendum.
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