1) Nuclear weapons will be forbidden in an independent Scotland.
2) Nuclear weapons will be compulsory in a non-independent Scotland.
So what on earth is an anti-nuclear weapons country like Scotland supposed to do in its forthcoming referendum on independence? I think I speak on behalf of all of us in begging the (admittedly brilliant) UK government strategists to stop torturing us with these impossible dilemmas.
They can't help themselves as it is in their DNA.
ReplyDeleteSome questions that immediately come to mind:
ReplyDeleteWho will ban us from having these nuclear weapons?
Will it be the same people that banned India and Pakistan and Israel for example?
Will the same people ban England from having these weapons?
How on earth have Iceland, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden and Ireland managed all these years without nuclear weapons?
Incidentally, once we are independent, if "someone" says we are banned, and that England is not banned, from possessing WMDs, will the English get their leaking nuclear submarines out of our water within hours?
We wouldn't want to get into trouble with whoever it is that will ban us from having nuclear weapons, would we?
I wonder if we can sell them...
Worth adding a link to SNP defence policy.
ReplyDeleteA nice touch to have Joint Forces Headquarters at Faslane...
The only quibble I would make is that it seems a bit weird to stay a member of NATO, but effectively give Russia and China a veto on your military activities by limiting to those approved by the UN.
I can see where this is coming from - avoiding involvement in a repeat of the Iraq debacle without going all the way for neutrality - but I would have thought there was a better way o spelling it out.