Against Quote by Rory Bremner

It will be increasingly difficult to keep Scotland as a part of the U.K. I hope that doesn't happen, but everyone knows David Cameron…

— Keir Starmer

“So there comes a moment when we turn and look at each other - England and Scotland - and realise we just want different…

— David Greig

I think UKIP [ UK Independence Party] and the BNP [British National Party] are very, very English concerns. If they gather strength they're going…

— Irvine Welsh

I hope the unionist parties, for example, who would be keen to protect and preserve the Union would see that it's much easier to…

— Leo Varadkar

The English are not happy unless they are miserable, the Irish are not at peace unless they are at war, and the Scots are…

— George Orwell

Because Scotland and Northern Ireland want to remain part of the E.U., there is the quite real possibility that Scotland and even Northern Ireland…

— Peter Bergen

We now have political chaos. We've got parties in Ireland saying they want to merge with Northern Ireland. You've got parties in Scotland saying…

— Tim Harford

Why should Scotland be stopped from suggesting to the English people that we join a new union under new terms? Let's not try to…

— Eddi Reader

If the U.K. were threatening to withdraw from Europe, I would certainly want Scotland to be out of that.

— Peter Higgs

In this context the British and Irish governments will have to promote a new, imaginative and dynamic alternative in which both governments will share…

— Gerry Adams

England and Ireland may flourish together. The world is large enough for both of us. Let it be our care not to make ourselves…

— Edmund Burke

There is a real danger of the United Kingdom breaking up. There is a loss of common identity.

— Norman Davies