Dear All
One of the many acorns in Alex Salmond’s
shoes is the bungled defence strategy of the Scottish National Party!
Here is how I see the ‘grand vision’ of
Salmond and Sturgeon, it is scream ‘bastards’, then kick any potential enemy in
the balls before running away.
SNP defence spokesman is Englishman SNP MP
Angus Robertson, he will defend Scotland?
I don’t think so!
Robertson was shown to be worse than woeful
in the remit, embarrassment is the word, he compared Scotland’s potential navy
with Norway.
When pressed about logistics of the
Scottish Fleet, he said he has no idea of numbers and of types of vessels but
then went on to say that he has looked at the Norwegian navy website, and that
it was very good.
Dick!
Others have jumped on the risible SNP
defence plan, with a £2.5 billion annual security budget in an independent
Scotland.
Unsurprisingly, it has been branded "back
of the envelope stuff."
The SNP don’t do defence as we have seen by
the ridiculous anti NATO and anti Nuclear stance.
This type of stupidity would put Scots at
risk, this is the judgement of those attending a defence seminar.
Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the former
Conservative foreign, defence and Scottish secretary, was speaking at the Royal
United Services Institute in London.
For those who dabble in politics, the Royal
United Services Institute in London is a think tank that is highly thought of
in political circles.
Rifkind has looked at the suggested NP's
security prospectus and says that it contains fundamental flaws.
He pointed out that the suggested 15,000 strength
for a Scottish defence force is rubbish, and would result in combat forces of
no more than 5000 soldiers or ‘boots on the ground’ as they say. The other two-thirds
of personnel would be engaged in such things as engineering, logistics, medical
care and intelligence.
Rifkind added:
"So the numbers have to take that into
account and, if the 15,000 do take that into account, then the combat forces
are no more than 5000”.
He then hit the nail on the head when he
said:
"Is that something we should
enthusiastically look forward to as being something that would enhance
Scotland's position in the world? This is back of the envelope stuff."
Sir Menzies Campbell, the former Liberal
Democrat leader, also complained of a lack of detail.
Lord Browne, the former Labour defence
secretary, also took issue with the SNP's post-independence defence budget of
£2.5bn.
He says that the startup costs of the "extraordinarily
expensive series" of systems would have to be established such as a new
command and control centre, a Ministry of Defence and intelligence structure
has been thought through.
The Labour peer said:
"We should not give any of that away,
even for a comparative short period of time easily, because it's an extremely
risky thing to do."
Angus Robertson, the SNP's defence
spokesman, chipped in and drew a comparison with Denmark; presumably the Danish
Navy has a better website than Norway!
The SNP need to have a proper defence strategy,
one wonders how long Englishman Angus Robertson sat on his arse, occasionally scratching
it before he found the ‘back of an envelope’ and computer access to look at
websites?
Couldn’t have been too long, the work he
has produced is of such low quality, no one can take it seriously.
Angus Robertson couldn’t defend a wooden
hut in a paintball game!
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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