An interesting article appeared in the Scotland on Sunday today. It indicates the influence the SNP can exert even before we have seen the result of the upcoming election.
It appears that the Ministry of Defence has scoped out alternative sites - all furth of Scotland's borders - to locate the nuclear fleet presently anchored at the Faslane base on the Clyde. And the main reason for this appears to be the mere prospect of an SNP victory on 3rd May.
Thus we have the British government preparing to respond to a central demand of the SNP - the withdrawal of nuclear weapons from Scotland - already. This policy is hugely popular with the Scottish people. Indeed in Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, some 75.5% of those who responded to the survey we distributed across the area stated they opposed the Labour government's renewal of nuclear weapons.
It also tells us how serious the prospect of an SNP victory is on 3rd May. Even the British government recognises this.
To have a read of the Scotland on Sunday story take a look at http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=577262007
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I like the way you haven't mentioned the thousands of job losses the article talks about.
But that's fine, as long as the SNP gets its 30 seconds of fame.
Who is angry steve kidding? Presumably he believes the ludicrous figures punted by Jackie Baillie.
I am more inclined to believe the experts from the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, who calculated that the Son of Trident would create or continue 3,000 jobs... at a mere cost of £5 million each! The existing ratio of funding per job will no doubt be similar.
Is it jobs at any cost (in every sense) steve?
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