A RISING Conservative star has claimed a Tory victory at the next election would be the "biggest threat to the Union since Bonnie Prince Charlie".
Leslie Clark said he fears his party winning the next general election as he believes it will make Scottish independence inevitable.
The President of the University of Aberdeen Conservative and Unionist Association also claimed that disgruntled southern voters are looking for their own version of William Wallace to "free the oppressed English nation" from Gordon Brown and the Scots.
"When the proponents of devolution argued that the Tories had no moral mandate running Scotland in the early 1990s when they only had 11 seats, just imagine what it will be like once the Tories win at Westminster with barely any Scottish representation!
"Alex Salmond will claim that they have no real democratic legitimacy to run Scotland. We could then see a seismic shift in public opinion."
"We should not frighten or bribe Scotland into maintaining the Union. We should not treat the electorate as children.
"Scotland and England would survive perfectly well apart – not that I advocate that policy.
It can be argued that a Tory Government in Westminster would not have the democratic legitimacy to run Wales either.