Letters / Pure posturing
Now we have Salmond at his most stupid. His recent creation “Scotland’s Future” has to be one of the propagandist’s stupidities of all time.
I will comment only on the defence aspect. As an ex serving member of HM forces and having served in Her Majesty’s Naval Base (HMNB) Clyde, Faslane, I have some right to claim an informed opinion.
Salmond and his party wish to remove the nuclear aspect of this base and then maintain Faslane as a conventional naval base.
That is quite a laudable move with which I take no issue.
Salmond also intends for Scotland to remain an active member of NATO and open Scotland’s ports to NATO nuclear-armed vessels from NATO countries on a confidential basis.
This actually means any Nato submarine; including Trident missile submarines would be free to use Faslane or any other Scottish port at any time (including Lerwick)!
In that situation, just what is the point in decommissioning HM Faslane as a nuclear base in the first place?
Pure posturing! Thousands of defence jobs lost and the nuclear weapons still on ships and submarines in Scottish ports under a NATO control.
I defy anyone to explain the logic of that.
Ian Tinkler
Clousta
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