卡梅伦为挽回苏格兰深情演讲

第一篇：卡梅伦为挽回苏格兰深情演讲

卡梅伦为挽回苏格兰深情演讲

Centuries of history hang in the balance（悬挂在天平上，我想到了一些中文中对应的词语，都可以诠释这个英文词组，“风雨飘摇”，“摇摇欲坠”）, a question mark hangs over（一个问号悬挂在…之上，相当于“we have no idea about”）the future of our United Kingdom.If people vote “yes” in September, then Scotland will become an independent country.There will be no going back（没有回头之路）.拥有数百年历史的国家处于关键时刻，一个巨大的问号横在英国的未来。如果人民在九月的投票中选择yes，那么苏格兰讲成为独立的国家，这没有回头路。

As I’ve made clear（正像我之前清楚地表述过）, this is a decision that is squarely and solely（这两个词的表面意思是“直接地、仅仅地”，从来表现出这次投票是完完全全苏格兰人自己的决定，外界力量无法去干涉）for those in Scotland to make.I believe passionately that it is in their interests to stay in the United Kingdom.But my argument today is that while only 4 million people can vote in this referendum（公投，真正由国家公民一票一票选出来）, all 63 million of us are profoundly（深刻地）affected.There are 63 million of us who can wake up on September 19 in a different country with a different future ahead of them.We would be deeply diminished（减少、削弱）without Scotland, this matters（动词，很重要）to all of our futures.And everyone in UK can have a voice（发出声音，表达意见）in this debate.正如我所说过的，这次的投票将是苏格兰人自己的决定，我热情地相信：他们想要留在英国。今天我所要说的是，只有400万人（苏格兰人）可以投票，但却有6300万人将受深刻影响。我们有6300万人，你或许会在9月19日起床，发现自己在另一个国家，面临不同的未来。如果没有苏格兰，我们会被大幅削弱；这对我们所有人的未来都很重要，每个英国人都可以参与争论。

The outcome is still up in the air（成语，悬而未决）, and we have just 7 months to go, 7 months to do all we can to keep our United Kingdom as one（keep…as one，保持团结一致）, 7 months to save the most extraordinary（神奇的、非凡的）country in history.And we must do whatever it takes（竭尽所能）, so to everyone, in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, everyone like me who cares about（关心）the United Kingdom.结局还是未知，而我们只有七个月的时间，这7个月我们要竭尽全力，保住我们的国家不分裂。7个月的时间拯救历史上最非凡的国家。我们需要想尽办法，每个人：英格兰、威尔士、北爱尔兰的每个人。每个像我一样热爱祖国的人。

I want to say this, you don’t have a vote, but you do have a voice（跟前面的vote有押头韵，这句话很有音韵美，大家自己感受）.Those voting, they’re our friends, they’re our neighbors, they’re our family, you do have an influence.So get on the phone, get together, email, tweet, speak, let message ring out（发送出）.From Manchester to Motherwell, from Pembrokeshire to Perth, from Belfast to Bute, from us to the people of Scotland, let the message be this: we want you to stay!Think of what we’ve done together, what we can do together, what we stand for together（排比句很有气势）.Team GB（在奥运会赛场上，英国奥运代表队喜欢自称“Team GB”，即“大不列颠队”，GB是Great Britain的简写。）, the winning team in the history of the world, let us stick together（团结一致）, for a winning（在此是一个形容词，表示“获胜的”）future too.我想说，或许你没有选票（非苏格兰人），但你有声音，能够投票的人是我们的朋友，我们的邻居，我们的家人，你能够影响他们。所以拿起电话、电子邮件、推特、通话。让我们的信息传达出去：从曼彻斯特（英格兰）到马瑟韦尔，从彭布洛克郡（威尔士）到帕斯，从贝尔法斯特（北爱尔兰）到比特岛，从我们到苏格兰人。让我们告诉他们：我们想要你们留下来，想想我们经历的过去，我们能拥有的未来和我们对彼此的坚守。英国队—世界历史上的优胜团队，让我们携起手，走向胜利的未来。（以上内容为沪江的谢侃老师提供的原创内容）

第二篇：卡梅伦深情挽留苏格兰演讲稿

Let's stick together.(David Cameron)

We meet in a week that could change the United Kingdom forever.Indeed, it could end the United Kingdom as we know it.On Thursday, Scotland votes, and the future of our country is at stake.On Friday, people could be living in a different country, with a different place in the world and a different future ahead of it.This is a decision that could break up our family of nations, and rip Scotland from the rest of the UK.And we must be very clear.There's no going back from this.No re-run.This is a once-and-for-all decision.If Scotland votes yes, the UK will split, and we will go our separate ways forever.When people vote on Thursday they are not just voting for themselves, but for their children and grandchildren and the generations beyond.So I want to speak directly to the people of this country today about what is at stake.I speak for millions of people across England, Wales and Northern Ireland – and many in Scotland, too who would be utterly heart-broken by the break-up of the United Kingdom.Utterly heart-broken to wake up on Friday morning to the end of the country we love, to know that Scots would no longer join with the English, Welsh and Northern Irish in our Army, Navy and Air Force, in our UK-wide celebrations and commemorations, in UK sporting teams from the Olympics to the British Lions.The United Kingdom would be no more.No UK pensions, no UK passports, no UK pound.The

greatest example of democracy the world has ever known, of openness, of people of different nationalities and faiths coming together as one, would be no more.It would be the end of a country that launched the Enlightenment, that abolished slavery, that drove the industrial revolution, that defeated fascism.the end of a country that people around the world respect and admire the end of a country that all of us call home.And we built this home together.It's only become Great Britain because of the greatness of Scotland.Because of the thinkers, writers, artists, leaders, soldiers, inventors who have made this country what it is.It's Alexander Fleming and David Hume;J.K.Rowling and Andy Murray and all the millions of people who have played their part in this extraordinary success story, the Scots who led the charge on pensions and the NHS and on social justice.We did all this together.For the people of Scotland to walk away now would be like painstakingly building a home – and then walking out the door and throwing away the keys.So I would say to everyone voting on Thursday, please remember.This isn't just any old country.This is the United Kingdom.This is our country.And you know what makes us truly great? It's not our economic might or military powers – it's our values.British values.Fairness.Freedom.Justice.The values that say wherever you are, whoever you are, your life has dignity and worth.The values that say we don't walk on by when people are sick, that

we don't ask for your credit card in the hospital, that we don't turn our backs when you get old and frail.That we don't turn a blind eye or a cold heart to people around the world who are desperate and crying out for help.This is what Britain means.This is what makes us the greatest country on earth.And it's why millions of us could not bear to see that country ending – for good, for ever – on Friday.Now I know that there are many people across Scotland who are planning to vote Yes.I understand why this might sound appealing.It's the promise of something different.I also know that the people who are running the Yes campaign are painting a picture of a Scotland that is better in every way, and they can be good at painting that picture.But when something looks too good to be true – that's usually because it is.And it is my duty to be clear about the likely consequences of a Yes Vote.Independence would not be a trial separation, it would be a painful divorce.And as Prime Minister I have to tell you what that would mean.It would mean the armed forces we have built up together over centuries being split up forever.It would mean our pension funds sliced up – at some cost.It would mean the borders we have would become international and may no longer be so easily crossed.It would mean the automatic support that you currently get from British embassies when you're travelling around the world would come to an end.It would mean over half of Scottish mortgages

suddenly, from one day to the next, being provided by banks in a foreign country.It would mean that interest rates in Scotland are no longer set by the Bank of England – with the stability and security that promises.It would mean-for any banks that remain in Scotland – if they ever got in trouble it would be Scottish taxpayers and Scottish taxpayers alone that would bear the costs.It would mean that we no longer pool resources across the whole of the UK to pay for institutions like the NHS or our welfare system.This is not guesswork.There are no question marks, no maybe this or maybe that.The Nationalists want to break up UK funding on pensions, the UK funding of healthcare, the UK funding and comprehensive protection on national security.These are the facts...Don't lose faith in what this country is – and what we can be.Don’t forget what a great United Kingdom you are part of.Don’t turn your backs on what is the best family of nations in the world and the best hope for your family in this world.So please, from all of us: Vote to stick together, vote to stay, vote to save our United Kingdom.

第三篇：卡梅伦深情演讲挽留苏格兰文稿 完整版

卡梅伦深情演讲挽留苏格兰文稿

We meet in a week that could change the United Kingdom forever.Indeed, it could end the United Kingdom as we know it.这一周可能永远改变英国，还有可能让我们所有人熟知的‚United Kingdom‛不复存在...On Thursday,Scotland votes, and the future of our country is at stake.On Friday, people could be living in a different country, with a different place in the world and a different future ahead of it.周四，你们开始投票，周五一早醒来，可能你们就已经身在一个不同的国家。This is a decision that could break up our family of nations, and rip Scotland from the rest of the UK.And we must be very clear.There’s no going back from this.No re-run.This is a once-and-for-all decision.我们要知道，此行一投，已再无退路，这就是一锤定音的一次投票。

If Scotland votesyes, the UK will split, and we will go our separate ways forever.如果苏格兰人投YES，那我们便会从此分道扬镳。

When people vote on Thursday they are not just voting for themselves, but for their children and grandchildren and the generations beyond.So I want to speak directly to the people of this country today about what is at stake.I speak for millions of people across England, Wales and Northern Ireland and many in Scotland, too who would be utterly heart-broken by the break-up of the United Kingdom.Utterly heart-broken to wake up on Friday morning to the end of the country we love, to know that Scots would no longer join with the English, Welsh and Northern Irish in our Army, Navy and Air Force, in our UK-wide celebrations and commemorations, in UK sporting teams from the Olympics to the British Lions.The United Kingdom would be no more.No UK pensions, no UK passports, no UK pound.The greatest example of democracy the world has ever known, of openness, of people of different nationalities and faiths coming together as one, would be no more.It would be the end of a country that launched the Enlightenmentthat abolished slavery that drove the industrial revolutionthat defeated fascism.the end of a countrythat people around the world respect and admire the end of a country that all of us call home.独立会终结一个国家，一个曾发起启蒙运动，发起工业革命，消灭了奴隶制，打败了法西斯赢得全球尊重，一个我们称为家的地方。

And we built this home together.It’s only become Great Britain because of the greatness of Scotland.国破，家亦不再...Because of the thinkers, writers, artists, leaders, soldiers, inventors who have made this country what it is.It's AlexanderFleming and David Hume;J.K.Rowling and Andy Murray and all the millions of people who have played their part in this extraordinary success story, the Scots who led the charge on pensions and the NHS and on social justice.We did all this together.For the people of Scotland to walk away now would be like pain stakingly building a home – andthen walking out the door and throwing away the keys.So I would say toeveryone voting on Thursday, please remember.This isn't just any old country.This is the United Kingdom.This is our country.And you know what makes us truly great? It's not our economic might or military prowess,it's our values.British values.Fairness.Freedom.Justice.The values that say wherever you are, whoever you are, your life has dignity and worth.The values that say we don't walk on by when people are sick, that we don't ask for your credit card in the hospital, that we don't turn our backs when you get old and frail.That we don't turna blind eye or a cold heart to people around the world who are desperate and crying out for help.This is what Britain means.This is what makes us the greatest country on earth.And it's why millions of us could not bear to see that country ending – for good, for ever – on Friday.Now I know thatthere are many people across Scotland who are planning to vote Yes.I understand why this might sound appealing.It's the promise of something different.I also know that the people who are running the Yes campaign are painting a picture of a Scotland that is better in every way, and they can be good at painting that picture.But when something looks too good to be true – that's usually because it is.And it is my duty to be clear about the likely consequences of a Yes Vote.Independence would not be a trial separation;it would be a painful divorce.独立不是一次短暂的分居试验，而是一次永久的痛苦离婚。

And as Prime Minister I have to tell you what that would mean.It would mean the armed forces we have built up together over centuries being split up forever.It would mean our pension funds sliced up – at some cost.It would mean the borders we havewould become international and may no longer be so easily crossed.It would meanthe automatic support that you currently get from British embassies when you’retravelling around the world would come to an end.It would mean overhalf of Scottish mortgages suddenly, from one day to the next, being provided by banks in a foreign country.It would mean that interest rates in Scotland areno longer set by the Bank of England – with the stability and security thatpromises.It would meanno country is.Of course we must constantly change and improve people's lives.No-one is contentwhile there are still children living in poverty.No-one is content while thereare people struggling, and young people not reaching their potential.Yes, everypolitical party is different.But we are all ofus – Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems, Nationalists – on a constant mission to change our country for the better.The question is: how do you get that change?For me it's simple.You don't get the change you want by ripping your country apart.只有不独立才能带来真正的变革。

You don't getchange by undermining your economy and damaging your businesses and diminishing your place in the world.But you can get real, concrete change on Thursday: ifyou vote No.’ Business as usual' is not on the ballot paper.The status quo isgone.This campaign has swept it away.There is no going back to the way things were.A vote for No means real change and we have spelled that change out inpractical terms, with a plan and a process.If we get a No voteon Thursday, that will trigger a major, unprecedented programme of devolutionwith additional powers for the Scottish Parliament.Major new powers over tax, spending and welfare services.We have agreed a timetable for that stronger Scottish Parliament: a time-table to bring in thenew powers that will go ahead if there is a No vote...a White Paper by November, put into draft legislation by January.This is a time table that is now agreed by all the main political parties and set in stone and I amprepared to work with all the main parties to deliver this during 2015.So a No voteactually means faster, fairer, safer and better change.And this is a vitalpoint: Scotland is not an observer in the affairs of this country.Scotland is shapingand changing the United Kingdom for the better – more so today than at anypoint in the last three hundred years and will continue to help shape theconstitution of our country.And Scottish people can enjoy the additional powers its Parliament gives without losing the UKpension, the UK pound or the UK passport.Real change is Scotland's for the taking.The power to set your own course and make your own decisions with thesecurity of being in the UK without the risks of going it alone.It's the best of both worlds.Scotland’s identity is already strong strong Scottish culture,strong Scottish arts, a strong Church of Scotland and in the last 15 years youhave built a strong Scottish Parliament not a fleeting institution but apermanent one.So the vote on Thursday is not about whether Scotland is a nation.Scotland is a proud, strong, successful nation.The vote on Thursday is about two competing visions forScotland’s future.The Nationalists’vision of narrowing down, going it alone, breaking all ties with the UK.Or the patriotic vision of a strong Scot-tish nation allied to the rest of the UnitedKingdom with its own stronger Scottish Parliament at its heart and with thebenefits of working together in the UK on jobs, pensions, healthcare funding,the currency, interest rates.It really is thebest of both worlds and it's the best way to get real change and secure abetter future for your children and grand-children.And speaking of family – that is quite simply how I feel about this.We are a family.The United King Dom isnot one nation.We are four nations in a single country.That can bedifficult but it is wonderful.Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland different nations, with individual identit-ies competing with each other even attimes enraging each other while still being so much stronger together.We are a family of nations.Why should the next generation of that family be forced to choose whether to identify only with Edinburgh or only with London choo-se which embassy they want to go to when they are in trouble abroad or pack their passport when they're going to see friends and loved ones? A family is not acompromise, or a second best, it is a magical identity, that makes us moretogether than we can ever be apart so please – do not break this family apart.In human relations it's almost never a good thing to turn away from eachother, put up walls, score new lines on the map.Why would we takeone Great Britain and turn it into separate smaller nations? What is that ananswer to? How will that helpthe ambitious young people who want to make their mark on the world or the pensioner who just wants security or the family relying on jobs make in the UK? Let no-one fool youthat ‘Yes' is a positive vision.It's about dividing people, closing doors,making foreigners of our friends and family.This isn't an optimistic vision.The optimistic vision is of our family of nations staying together there for each other in the hard times coming through to better times.We've just pulled through a great recession together.We’re moving forward together.The road has been long but it is finally leading upwards and that's why I ask you to vote Noto walking away.Vote No – and you are voting for a bigger and broader and better future for Scotland and you are investing in the future for your children and grand children.So this is our message to the people of Scotland: We want you to stay.Head and heart and soul, we want you to stay.我们希望你留下，从我们内心，头脑到灵魂最深处都希望你们留下 Please don't mix upthe temporary and the permanent.请不要弄混了‚暂时‛和‚永远‛的关系

Don't think: ‚I'm frustrated with politics right now, so I'll walk out the door and never come back.‛

请不要因为你不喜欢政治而选择离开我们

If you don't like me – I won't be here forever.If you don't like this Government – it won't last forever.But if you leave the UK – that will be forever.如果你们不喜欢我，我不会永远在这里，如果你们不喜欢这一届政府，这一届政府也不会永远在这里，但是你们选择独立，那就是永远了...Yes, the different parts of the UK don't always see eye-to-eye.Yes, we need change– and we will deliver it but to get that change, to get a brighter future, wedon't need to tear our country apart.In two days, this long campaign will be at an end.And as you stand in the stillness of the polling booth, I hope you will ask your-self this.Will my family andI truly be better off by going it alone? Will we really be more safe and secure?Do I really want to turn my back on the rest of Britain, and why is itthat so many people across the world are asking: why would Scotland want to dothat? Why? And if you don't know the answer to these questions – then vote No.At the end of the day, all the arguments of this campaign can be reduced to a single fact: we are better together.So as you reach your final decision, please don't let anyone tell you that you can't be aproud Scot and a proud Brit.Don't lose faith in what this country is – and what we can be.Don’t forget what a great United Kingdom you are part of.Don’t turn your backs on what is the best family ofnations in the world and the best hope for your family in this world.So please, from all of us: Vote to stick together, vote to stay, vote to save our United Kingdom.

第四篇：英国首相卡梅伦深情演讲挽留苏格兰（定稿）

Let's stick together.(David Cameron)英国首相卡梅伦深情演讲挽留苏格兰

Thank you,I want thank you for that speech,I want thank you for the passion that you have shown in this whole campaign, I want thank you for the leadership you give to the conservative to the Scotland, but the ??? I want thank you for the such clear message you have given about how we are better together, you have been absolutely??? in this campaign, Thank you!

We meet in a week that could change the United Kingdom forever.Indeed, it could end the United Kingdom as we know it.On Thursday, Scotland votes, and the future of our country is at stake.On Friday, people could be living in a different country, with a different place in the world and a different future ahead of it.This is a decision that could break up our family of nations, and rip Scotland from the rest of the UK.And we must be very clear.There’s no going back from this.No re-run.This is a once-and-for-all decision.If Scotland votes yes, the UK will split, and we will go our separate ways forever.When people vote on Thursday they are not just voting for themselves, but for their children and grandchildren and the generations beyond.So I want to speak directly to the people of this country today about what is at stake.I speak for millions of people across England, Wales and Northern Ireland – and many in Scotland, too who would be utterly heart-broken by the break-up of the United Kingdom.Utterly heart-broken to wake up on Friday morning to the end of the country we love to know that Scots would no longer join with the English, Welsh and Northern Irish in our Army, Navy and Air Force..in our UK-wide celebrations and commemorations, in UK sporting teams from the Olympics to the British Lions.The United Kingdom would be no more.No UK pensions, no UK passports, no UK pound.The greatest example of democracy the world has ever known, of openness of people of different nationalities and faiths coming together as one, would be no more.It would be the end of a country that launched the Enlightenment, that abolished slavery that drove the industrial revolution, that defeated fascism...The end of a country that people around the world respect and admire the end of a country that all of us call home.And we built this home together.It’s only become Great Britain because of the greatness of Scotland.Because of the thinkers, writers, artists, leaders, soldiers, inventors who have made this country what it is.It’s Alexander Fleming and David Hume;J.K.Rowling and Andy Murray and all the millions of people who have played their part in this extraordinary success story...the Scots who led the charge on pensions and the NHS and on social justice.We did all this together.For the people of Scotland to walk away now would be like painstakingly building a home – and then walking out the door and throwing away the keys.So I would say to everyone voting on Thursday, please remember.This isn’t just any old country.This is the United Kingdom.This is our country.And you know what makes us truly great? It’s not our economic might or military prowess – it’s our values.British values.Fairness.Freedom.Justice.The values that say wherever you are, whoever you are, your life has dignity and worth.The values that say we don’t walk on by when people are sick that we don’t ask for your credit card in the hospital that we don’t turn our backs when you get old and frail.That we don’t turn a blind eye or a cold heart to people around the world who are desperate and crying out for help.This is what Britain means.This is what makes us the greatest country on earth.And it’s why millions of us could not bear to see that country ending – for good, for ever – on Friday.Now I know that there are many people across Scotland who are planning to vote Yes.I understand why this might sound appealing.It’s the promise of something different.I also know that the people who are running the Yes campaign are painting a picture of a Scotland that is better in every way, and they can be good at painting that picture.But when something looks too good to be true – that’s usually because it is.And it is my duty to be clear about the likely consequences of a Yes Vote.Independence would not be a trial separation.It would be a painful divorce.And as Prime Minister I have to tell you what that would mean.It would mean we no longer share the same currency.It would mean the armed forces we have built up together over centuries being split up forever.It would mean our pension funds sliced up – at some cost.It would mean the borders we have would become international and may no longer be so easily crossed.It would mean the automatic support that you currently get from British embassies when you’re travelling around the world would come to an end.It would mean over half of Scottish mortgages suddenly, from one day to the next, being provided by banks in a foreign country.It would mean that interest rates in Scotland are no longer set by the Bank of England – with the stability and security that promises.It would meanno country is.Of course we must constantly change and improve people’s lives.No-one is content while there are still children living in poverty.No-one is content while there are people struggling, and young people not reaching their potential.Yes, every political party is different.But we are all of us – Conservatives, Labour, Lib Dems, Nationalists – on a constant mission to change our country for the better.The question is: how do you get that change? For me it’s simple.You don’t get the change you want by ripping your country apart.You don’t get change by undermining your economy and damaging your businesses and diminishing your place in the world.But you can get real, concrete change on Thursday: if you vote No.*Business as usual’ is not on the ballot paper.The status quo is gone.This campaign has swept it away.There is no going back to the way things were.A vote for No means real change.And we have spelled that change out in practical terms, with a plan and a process.If we get a No vote on Thursday, that will trigger a major, unprecedented programme of devolution with additional powers for the Scottish Parliament.Major new powers over tax, spending and welfare services.We have agreed a timetable for that stronger Scottish Parliament: a time-table to bring in the new powers that will go ahead if there is a No vote a White Paper by November, put into draft legislation by January.This is a timetable that is now agreed by all the main political parties and set in stone and I am prepared to work with all the main parties to deliver this during 2015.So a No vote actually means faster, fairer, safer and better change.And this is a vital point: Scotland is not an observer in the affairs of this country.Scotland is shaping and changing the United Kingdom for the better – more so today than at any point in the last three hundred years and will continue to help shape the constitution of our country.And Scottish people can enjoy the additional powers its Parliament gives without losing the UK pension, the UK pound or the UK passport.Real change is Scotland’s for the taking.The power to set your own course and make your own decisions, with the security of being in the UK, without the risks of going it alone.It’s the best of both worlds.Scotland’s identity is already strong, strong Scottish culture, strong Scottish arts, a strong Church of Scotland, and in the last 15 years you have built a strong Scottish Parliament, not a fleeting institution but a permanent one.So the vote on Thursday is not about whether Scotland is a nation.Scotland is a proud, strong, successful nation.The vote on Thursday is about two competing visions for Scotland’s future.The Nationalists’ vision of narrowing down, going it alone, breaking all ties with the UK.Or the patriotic vision of a strong Scottish nation allied to the rest of the United Kingdom with its own stronger Scottish Parliament at its heart and with the benefits of working together in the UK on jobs, pensions, healthcare funding, the currency, interest rates.It really is the best of both worlds and it’s the best way to get real change and secure a better future for your children and grandchildren.And speaking of family – that is quite simply how I feel about this.We are a family.The United Kingdom is not one nation.We are four nations in a single country.That can be difficult but it is wonderful.Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland, different nations, with individual identities competing with each other even at times enraging each other, while still being so much stronger together.We are a family of nations.Why should the next generation of that family be forced to choose whether to identify only with Edinburgh or only with London, choose which embassy they want to go to when they are in trouble abroad, or pack their passport when they’re going to see friends and loved ones.A family is not a compromise, or a second best, it is a magical identity, that makes us more together than we can ever be apart so please – do not break this family apart.In human relations it’s almost never a good thing to turn away from each other, put up walls, score new lines on the map.Why would we take one Great Britain and turn it into separate smaller nations? What is that an answer to? How will that help the ambitious young people who want to make their mark on the world, or the pensioner who just wants security, or the family relying on jobs make in the UK? Let no-one fool you that ‘Yes’ is a positive vision.It’s about dividing people, closing doors, making foreigners of our friends and family.This isn’t an optimistic vision.The optimistic vision is of our family of nations staying together, there for each other in the hard times, coming through to better times.We’ve just pulled through a great recession together.We’re moving forward together.The road has been long but it is finally leading upwards, and that’s why I ask you to vote No to walking away.Vote No – and you are voting for a bigger and broader and better future for Scotland, and you are investing in the future for your children and grandchildren.So this is our message to the people of Scotland.We want you to stay.Head and heart and soul, we want you to stay.Please: don’t mix up the temporary and the permanent.Don’t think: I’m frustrated with politics right now, so I’ll walk out the door and never come back.If you don’t like me – I won’t be here forever.If you don’t like this Government – it won’t last forever.But if you leave the UK – that will be forever.Yes, the different parts of the UK don’t always see eye-to-eye.Yes, we need change – and we will deliver it.But to get that change, to get a brighter future, we don’t need to tear our country apart.In two days, this long campaign will be at an end.And as you stand in the stillness of the polling booth, I hope you will ask yourself this.Will my family and I truly be better off by going it alone? Will we really be more safe and secure? Do I really want to turn my back on the rest of Britain, and why is it that so many people across the world are asking: why would Scotland want to do that? Why? And if you don’t know the answer to these questions – then vote No.At the end of the day, all the arguments of this campaign can be reduced to a single fact.We are better together.So as you reach your final decision, please: Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t be a proud Scot and a proud Brit.Don’t lose faith in what this country is – and what we can be.Don’t forget what a great United Kingdom you are part of.Don*t turn your backs on what is the best family of nations in the world and the best hope for your family in this world.So please, from all of us: Vote to stick together...Vote to stay......Vote to save our United Kingdom.

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英国首相卡梅伦深情挽留苏格兰演讲全文

英国首相卡梅伦深情挽留苏格兰演讲全文

We meet in a week that could change the United Kingdom forever.Indeed, it could end the United Kingdom as we know it.On Thursday, Scotland votes, and the future of our country is at stake.On Friday, people could be living in a different country, with a different place in the world and a different future ahead of it.This is a decision that could break up our family of nations, and rip Scotland from the rest of the UK.And we must be very clear.There's no going back from this.No re-run.This is a once-and-for-all decision.If Scotland votes yes, the UK will split, and we will go our separate ways forever.When people vote on Thursday they are not just voting for themselves, but for their children and grandchildren and the generations beyond.So I want to speak directly to the people of this country today about what is at stake.I speak for millions of people across England, Wales and Northern Ireland – and many in Scotland, too who would be utterly heart-broken by the break-up of the United Kingdom.Utterly heart-broken to wake up on Friday morning to the end of the country we love, to know that Scots would no longer join with the English, Welsh and Northern Irish in our Army, Navy and Air Force, in our UK-wide celebrations and commemorations, in UK sporting teams from the Olympics to the British Lions.The United Kingdom would be no more.No UK pensions, no UK passports, no UK pound.The greatest example of democracy the world has ever known, of openness, of people of different nationalities and faiths coming together as one, would be no more.It would be the end of a country that launched the Enlightenment, that abolished slavery, that drove the industrial revolution, that defeated fascism.the end of a country that people around the world respect and admire the end of a country that all of us call home.And we built this home together.It's only become Great Britain because of the greatness of Scotland.Because of the thinkers, writers, artists, leaders, soldiers, inventors who have made this country what it is.It's Alexander Fleming and David Hume;J.K.Rowling and Andy Murray and all the millions of people who have played their part in this extraordinary success story, the Scots who led the charge on pensions and the NHS and on social justice.We did all this together.For the people of Scotland to walk away now would be like painstakingly building a home – and then walking out the door and throwing away the keys.So I would say to everyone voting on Thursday, please remember.This isn't just any old country.This is the United Kingdom.This is our country.And you know what makes us truly great? It's not our economic might or military prowess – it's our values.British values.Fairness.Freedom.Justice.The values that say wherever you are, whoever you are, your life has dignity and worth.The values that say we don't walk on by when people are sick, that we don't ask for your credit card in the hospital, that we don't turn our backs when you get old and frail.That we don't turn a blind eye or a cold heart to people around the world who are desperate and crying out for help.1

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This is what Britain means.This is what makes us the greatest country on earth.And it's why millions of us could not bear to see that country ending – for good, for ever – on Friday.Now I know that there are many people across Scotland who are planning to vote Yes.I understand why this might sound appealing.It's the promise of something different.I also know that the people who are running the Yes campaign are painting a picture of a Scotland that is better in every way, and they can be good at painting that picture.But when something looks too good to be true – that's usually because it is.And it is my duty to be clear about the likely consequences of a Yes Vote.Independence would not be a trial separation, it would be a painful divorce.And as Prime Minister I have to tell you what that would mean.It would mean the armed forces we have built up together over centuries being split up forever.It would mean our pension funds sliced up – at some cost.It would mean the borders we have would become international and may no longer be so easily crossed.It would mean the automatic support that you currently get from British embassies when you're travelling around the world would come to an end.It would mean over half of Scottish mortgages suddenly, from one day to the next, being provided by banks in a foreign country.It would mean that interest rates in Scotland are no longer set by the Bank of England – with the stability and security that promises.It would meannot duckand now the millions of voices of England must also be heard.The question of English votes for English laws – the so-called West Lothian question –requires a decisive answer.So, just as Scotland will vote separately in the Scottish Parliament on their issues of tax, spending and welfare so too England, as well as Wales and Northern Ireland, should be able to vote on these issues and all this must take place in tandem with, and at the same pace as, the settlement for Scotland.I hope that is going to take place on a cross-party basis.I have asked William Hague to draw up these plans.We will set up a Cabinet Committee right away and proposals will also be ready to the same timetable I hope the Labor Party and other parties will contribute.英国首相卡梅伦深情挽留苏格兰演讲全文

It is also important we have wider civic engagement about to improve governance in our United Kingdom, including how to empower our great cities.And we will say more about this in the coming days.This referendum has been hard fought.It has stirred strong passions.It has electrified politics in Scotland, and caught the imagination of people across the whole of our United Kingdom.It will be remembered as a powerful demonstration of the strength and vitality of our ancient democracy.Record numbers registered to vote and record numbers cast their vote.We can all be proud of that.It has reminded us how fortunate we are that we are able to settle these vital issues at the ballot box, peacefully and calmly.Now we must look forward, and turn this into the moment when everyone – whichever way they voted – comes together to build that better, brighter future for our entire United Kingdom.