Πέμπτη, Σεπτεμβρίου 11, 2014

A few words from a Friend...



Dear Scottish friends!


As a Greek and as someone who has lived and studied for four years in the UK, I would like to share a few thoughts with you regarding the Independence referendum in a few days. Our nations have bonds that go back tens of centuries: trade, colonies etc. So, please, take this not as an intervention in your interior affairs, but as a word of advise from a friendly nation.


To begin with, you are free to decide whatever you believe it is of your best interest. But it can not cease to cause bitterness and pity the fact that you are being offered the chance to have in a bloodless and clean way what other nations shed rivers of blood to earn, and you are…thinking about it.……. You are being offered Freedom and Independence wearing a tie and a tuxedo, when in other places of the world (Syria, Cyprus, Iraq, Ireland, Palestine, Ukraine etc.) lives were and still are being lost, but…you are thinking about it! The British passport itself that all Scottish people use, has on the Royal Coat of Arms carved in no uncertain way your humiliation in the image of the chain around the neck of the unicorn, which symbolizes Scotland.