Posted on 09/13/2014 8:36:49 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Sure, why not?
They sent us their gold, didn’t they?
Why not an English port?
I have a friend who has done business in Scotland for years and used to have a facility there. He just returned from a two week trip this week and says if this vote passes the negative financial impacts will be huge - not just there but rippling all over the world.
And they trust that Muslim idiot Obama with them??
Dickweed might not like it
The article said, it’s because they don’t have the facilities elsewhere to dock them.
Specialized facilities for servicing nuclear subs need to be constructed. The assumption is that those that are in Scotland become the property of the Republic of Scotland, assuming the new nation becomes a republic.
Scottish Trident base claims ‘preposterous threat’
The British Government denies reports it is examining plans to designate Faslane as sovereign UK territory in case Scots back independence next year.
11 Jul 2013
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10173371/Scottish-Trident-base-claims-preposterous-threat.html
Thanks.
Of course, Scotland could join NATO.
I seriously doubt it. Scotland has less than 10% of the UK's population. England will get on fine without Scotland (and Wales and Northern Ireland). Much of the English Crown's expansion into the rest of what came to be known as Great Britain was a way to forestall recurrent raids by the Welsh, the Scots and the Irish into England, the most fertile and productive part of the realm. The other part of England's rationale for dominating the British Isles was to deny the continental powers a staging area for the invasion of England. Today, the only thing the continental powers are marching towards is welfare state insolvency.
The Scots are coming, the Scots are coming!!! :-)
Because you don’t operate and maintain something as specialized and sophisticated as a nuclear armed nuclear submarine out of some random commercial port. Not even out of a high-end commercial port.
Lease the facilities from Scotland
Not to worry. Obama could screw this up too.
Why pay billions to Scotland that could be used to build a new facility? Uncle Sam will provide at cost (or for free) what Scotland will charge an arm and a leg to lease. Your statement suggests that you believe the Scots will deal in good faith. Actual SNP rhetoric indicates a philosophy not very different from Venezuela's late Hugo Chavez.
> Uncle Sam will provide at cost (or for free)
Why should the US pay for England’s problem?
The sad truth is that under this disgusting administration the United States is no longer a reliable ally to people who have bled for us. It's been that way for the better part of six years now, and we have two to go during which the keeping of foreign policy will remain in the hands of John Kerry and Barack Hussein no matter what the House and Senate look like, and anyone who thinks that the country and the world can't take permanent damage from it hasn't been paying attention.
Salmond has his own plans to turn the sub base of Faslane into the HQ for the Scottish Armed Forces.
Moving the subs out early would probably be a good idea for both sides, and on a much better timetable than mentioned below.
From a report on the last debate -
Alastair Darling said removing Trident would mean a loss of 8000 jobs. But, replied Salmond, we plan to keep Faslane as the base for Scottish Defence, with all the jobs that implies. Darling countered with the Royal United Services Institute’s claim that Trident couldn’t be moved until 2028. Salmond came back with the fact that RUSI actually said that setting up all the infrastructure elsewhere for Trident and its submarines would take that long. The removal of Trident could easily be accomplished in the proposed 5½ years. The fact that no one could use it for several more years would be to everyone’s benefit.
The EU especially does not like citizens getting ideas of self determination. They like citizens obeying instructions from non elected bureaucrats.
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