Brian Cox has called on the USA to back a Yes vote in September as he compared London to Lichtenstein.
The Dundee-born star of X-Men, the Bourne Identity and Braveheart spoke out following David Bowie’s call for Scotland to remain part of the UK at the Brit Awards last month.
Cox, who splits his time between Scotland and the US, told e-magazine Boo York City: “I think Americans ought be pro-independence. You just need to say to them ‘Why did your forebears go to the States? They went for a better life.’
“These people wanted to have equality and Scots haven’t had that. We’ve grown up with a sense of inferiority so that when we go to America, we immediately discuss how positive everyone is.”
He added: “Another problem England has is that the parliament is in London and it shouldn’t be.
“London is London it’s a separate principality, which has nothing to do with England, absolutely nothing. London is a different state and it always has been. It’s like Monacoor Lichtenstein.”
“The playwright David Hare was talking in the press about how he was happy for Scotland to vote Yes because he thought that would finally shed light on what was lacking in the democracy of England and I think he’s hit the proverbial very firmly on the head.
“The democratic position of the so-called United Kingdom over the last 50 years has suffered, like the very shores of the islands themselves, from a process of systematic erosion.”
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