Separation anxiety.

So Pete Wishart today told us that the word "separate" (adj., being or standing apart; distant or dispersed; existing or maintained independently) is, as far he is concerned, "silly" and "pejorative". I know the SNP tend to be a touchy lot, but this is just ridiculous. Perhaps someone from the SNP would like to clarify which words they deem to be sufficiently politically correct to describe a hypothetical independent Scotland. Here's a few to consider:

• abstracted
• apart
• apportioned
• asunder
• cut apart
• cut in two
• detached
• disassociated
• discrete
• disembodied
• disjointed
• distant
• distributed
• disunited
• divergent
• divided
• divorced
• far between
• free
• in halves
• independent
• isolated
• loose
• marked
• parted
• partitioned
• put asunder
• removed
• scattered
• set apart
• set asunder
• severed
• sovereign
• sundered
• unattached
• unconnected

I'm guessing "free" and "sovereign" might be okay by them; "divorced, "set asunder" or "severed", probably less so.