Dear All
Scotland’s ‘jolly fat man’ Alex Salmond
says that an independent Scotland would have an army, navy and airforce.
Seems fine on paper!
However, who is going to sign up to the
Eckistan Army, Navy and Airforce when it will have limited opportunities in
comparison with what is on offer by the British Government?
The SNP have botched independence, they did
so in more or less every area, EU, currency and NATO.
Having had a golden opportunity to reset
the ‘cranks stance’ of anti NATO and anti Nuclear weapons, Salmond went for a
halfway house that doesn’t suit anyone.
His party, the ‘Alex Salmond Party’ which
has taken over the SNP is made up of malcontents, little groups with their own
reasons to hate the British.
Defence is a key area of platform of
independence, the SNP are totally out of their depth because the party are
basically ignorant, and kept ignorant by the leadership of Salmond and
Sturgeon.
Ignorance is now a problem for the
Nationalists as the polls show time and time again.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond rubbished
claims by the Alex Salmond Party (North British Region) that an independent
Scotland would have 15,000 army personnel.
His take on the idea is the Salmondists are
living in "cloud cuckoo land".
The Westminster Cabinet minister questioned
the SNP's maths saying departmental figures don’t stack up and that an
independent Scotland would need a bigger defence budget.
Hammond said:
"The Scottish Government's so-called
plans for the future Scottish defence force exist in cloud cuckoo land. The
numbers simply do not add up. Our analysis shows that they would require
something like 30% more than they are proposing to spend to deliver the force
structure that they have outlined in their white paper. And, in due course, I
should look forward to coming to Scotland, yet again, deconstructing, yet
again, the rubbish coming out of the Scottish National Party."
Basically what he is saying flowered up is
that Salmond, Sturgeon and Angus Robertson talk shite!
Angus Robertson is supposed to be a defence
spokesman, so why hasn’t he spoke up on this issue?
Well, it could be the lack of a work ethic
which he previously demonstrated by his Scotland could have an navy like the
Norwegians.
When asked for the size of the Norwegian
Navy, the bold Angus said he hadn’t a clue but their website looked nice.
Looked nice, isn’t that nice!
Hammond's broadside was fired in response
to a question from SNP defence spokesman Angus Robertson MP following on from a
statement from the Defence Secretary relating to Armed Forces restructuring.
The line used by SNP MP Angus Robertson was
all too familiar; he questioned the "disproportionate" cuts to
services personnel in Scotland. Scotland’s unpopular Deputy First Minister
Nicola Sturgeon ran with this as part of her 50 questions that Unionists must
answer.
So, the strategy isn’t anything about
concern of service personnel but rather a clumsy and crude attempt to bring up
independence in the House of Commons.
Pathetic, you have to wonder why simple
minded people think they can win a country’s support given this type of
performance.
Robertson asked:
"Will you confirm that personnel
numbers are at a record low in Scotland - around 11,000 - significantly lower
than the Scottish Government's plans for 15,000 after independence."
Defence in the UK is done of a UK wide
basis, not where squaddies go to the local shops or pubs to prop up the local
economy.
Imagine, Scotland refuses to be part of a NATO
operation because the SNP issue a statement that soldiers are needed to keep
buying cakes and sausage rolls from Mrs McGann’s, the bakers!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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