A row has broken out after independence activists burned copies of the Act of Union on Bonfire Night
MP Pete Wishart, who said “mad and crazy stunts like that turn people off [the independence movement] in droves”.
“This was done in the name of colonial oppression and the people of Scotland don’t believe they are colonised, they would think you are mad or just laugh at that.” Responding to critics on Twitter, Salyers shared an article from 2014 about an English town burning an effigy of. She wrote: “Right. Burning a copy of the hated treaty of Union on Nov 5th somehow brings Salvo into disrepute. But this was just ‘fun’?”
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