'We love you, don't go', London rally tells Scotland

September 16, 2014 02:56

Thousands today gathered in London to urge Scottish voters to reject independence and stay in the United Kingdom in a landmark referendum in three days' time.

Demonstrators in the rally in central Trafalgar Square waved Union Jack flags and held up signs reading "Let's stay together" and "Scotland we love you, don't go."

"I am beside myself with worry that Scotland might be separate from the rest of the UK. It will be an absolute travesty and terrible," said Shona Milne, 56, a longtime resident of England from Glasgow.

"I am distraught and I know millions of Scots are feeling the same," added Milne, who was wearing a "Proud to be Scottish and British" t-shirt. The mood was nervous but determined as pop songs such as "We are Family" and "Let's Stay Together" played over loudspeakers to the crowd of over 2,000.

Polls have shown the result could go either way when Scots cast their votes on Thursday in the historic referendum on the 307-year-old union.

Organiser Dan Snow, a broadcaster and historian, told the crowd: "We think that unity is better than division, and cooperation is better than competition."

Irish rock musician Bob Geldof, a long-time resident of England, said the United Kingdom was "one of the greatest ideas ever invented for the modern age".

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