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Dear All
First, an update on Govan shipbuilding
losses, we are at Sturgeon plus 4 and still Scotland’s unpopular Deputy First
Minister Nicola Sturgeon hasn’t bought a single type 26 frigate or saved any of
the 835 jobs due to be lost.
Today is Sturgeon plus 4!
Down the road, the ‘back of a fag packet’
SNP defence plans are having an awful time of it as SNP ministers have been
warned they “cannot fudge defence” in their white paper.
The white paper is the fairytale
constructed by Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon to tell Scots everything is
milk and honey, and everything is Nirvana.
Alex and Nicola will protect you if an independence
Scotland is invaded or subject to terrorism.
A chain of takeaways will be incorporated
as 'intelligence hubs' so if anyone enters 'the network' and talks about extremism while ordering a curry, the shopkeeprs simply rings up the Scottish MOD or Police and
they nip round and stop it.
What happens if they use ready meals?
Well we are all fucked!
The SNP plans according to Westminster must
produce a detailed analysis but probably won’t, the SNP don’t do defence much
like they don’t do anything else.
Scotland is on pause.
UK defence minister Dr Andrew Murrison in his evidence to the Scottish Affairs select
committee claims that it would be impossible for the Scottish Government to
meet all its defence commitments or even pay for cyber security on its proposed
budget of £2.5 billion.
The real cost of defence hasn’t been
properly worked out, and we know this because they have no idea of what assets
would be available to them, if any!
One thing the UK defence minister did
highlight which everyone apparent from Scotland’s unpopular Deputy first
Minister Nicola Sturgeon knows is that the new Type 26 frigates would not be built in
the Clyde should Scotland vote for independence.
That is confirmed.
If independent it would probably be
constructed in Portsmouth instead, but also said that the Glasgow yards are the
best place for ships to be put together. Portsmouth is ticking over, a Yes vote
would see the work transferred south and the SNP couldn’t do a thing about it.
The SNP who have lost the argument point
out that Murrison’s comments on the need for a sovereign shipbuilding facility
comes as the UK government announced that it has ordered three new Airseeker
spy planes from the USA to be built and maintained in the USA.
That would come under specialist
technology, just like when the MOD invested in long range rifles, L129A1
Sharpshooter.
Sadly, the SNP are just completely
ignorant, however Englishman and SNP MP has looked at the Norwegian Navy
website and probably watched many war film including possible the Great Escape
and Stalag 17. Maybe, and I am just guessing, he has watched Last of the Mohicans
regarding how to ambush a convoy.
Murrison makes a valid point when he says
that while defence was not normally an issue “which people think about in their
daily lives” it is “crucial” to the referendum debate.
He said:
“We have to remember this is independence
which is being talked about not some sort of halfway house whatever the SNP
might want to pretend. They need to be clear about this and what they are going
to do.”
On the proposed £2.5 billion budget of the
SNP he said:
“They are talking about having submarines,
complex warships, fast jets, and restoring the Scottish regiments. It is
impossible to have that with a budget of £2.5 billion.”
30 fast jets at around £100 million a pop
blows the budget, even if we get 10 from the RAF, think ball park figure of two
billion. That leaves about £500 million to buy everything else and of course
run it.
SNP ‘defence’ spokesman Angus Robertson
said:
“Another bad day for Project Fear as
Defence Minister Andrew Murrison confirmed a number of things this afternoon.
On shipbuilding he could not have been clearer that the Clyde was ‘certainly
the best‘ place to build the new generation of Type 26 frigates , and that with
the announcement of the ending of naval shipbuilding at Portsmouth, it would
still be possible to build Royal Navy vessels there following a Yes vote.”
No one likes an arselicker Robertson and
Nicola Sturgeon’s pathetic ships “could” be built on the Clyde is pure fantasy,
and that is all it is, procurement placement is a political decision at
Westminster for type 26, not in the province of Sturgeon or Holyrood.
Robertson added:
“It is to say the least ironic that a UK
defence minister could lecture Scots about shipbuilding and defence plans on
the same day the first of three American made and maintained spy planes worth
well over £180 million each land in the UK. The chief of the defence staff and
the minister made clear the Clyde is the best place to build ships, and it
appears America is the best for spy planes.”
Talk about a broken record, the game is up,
the SNP gamble on people being ignorant and guess what, the opposite is the
case; Scots aren’t stupid.
Next time that there is an independence
bid, the SNP should bring in an A team rather than the GAY Team.
Defence is no laughing matter.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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