This Government hates Britain, ending 800 years
of shipbuilding in England, 500 of them at the oldest dry dock in the world,
the one at Portsmouth.
Of course no contracts would go to the Clyde, or anywhere else in Scotland, if
Scotland became independent. That is a statement of the blatantly obvious. But
it ought still to be written into the contracts themselves: that they would be
void in that event.
Defence procurement is an integral part of
defence. Bring it all in-house, to a BAE restored as the publicly owned
monopoly supplier to our own Armed Forces, accompanied by a total ban on the
sale of arms abroad and the use of government action to preserve the skills
base while diverting its application to other uses.
Like renationalising the railways, or forcibly
splitting retail and investment banking, you will say that I am mad and
illiterate until it happens. Then you will pretend to have thought of it
yourselves.
That said, the people now running the party that
is guaranteed to win the next General Election, the party that has voted
against this Government's defence cuts and which has sought to moderate the
effects of its persecution of military families, have never accused me of being
either mad or illiterate.
Scotland is leaving. Get over it.
ReplyDeleteAnd they'll keep the pound too, for all the empty bluster.
The momentum is with Salmond.
Except that it isn't.
ReplyDeleteThere is no chance of a currency union, so you are left with the idea of a country having an enormous financial services sector but no lender of last resort.
Of course, that is never going to happen. People are not daft.
To those in the know, that's all just business bluffing.
ReplyDeleteThe big companies threatening to leave, London saying Scotland can't keep the pound.
All empty attempts at blackmail by Big a Business that will come to nothing when Scotland is independent.
And Salmond has sealed the deal by borrowing Ed Milibands policy of giving 16 year old kids a vote.
They are much more pro-separatist even than the 18-30s.