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BILL Ramsay might be correct in his assertion concerning Angus Robertson and his eleventh white paper on Scotland’s independence. However, he seems to place his assertion concerning Scotland’s nuclear weapons policy in the present devolved situation, as opposed to Robertson’s reference to nuclear weapons in an independent Scotland.
Ramsay’s assertion that Robertson has no claim to develop SNP policy on nuclear weapons is a wee bit previous. Surely his white paper is simply a notion of what is an SNP government preference for the inevitable independence of Scotland?
Scotland’s people and the SNP have laid their argument against nuclear weapons, and nuclear power in more recent times, for many years with the fact that the nuclear submarine base and nuclear weapons storage at Faslane and Coulport is the result of an original agreement, imposed by the then post-war government and America, to use the deep waters of Holy Loch as the most suitable water for a nuclear submarine base. Like Brexit and other Westminster policies, Scotland was never involved and so never agreed to this UK/ America agreement. Scotland’s MP composition in the UK parliament has always been in the minority since 1707.
Whatever the political arguments are in the white paper, between Angus Robertson, Bill Ramsay or even the CND, is for another day to sort out. What Scotland needs to know is that the SNP, for all its faults, is still the party fighting to rid our country of everything nuclear for when we become independent.
Alan Magnus-Bennett
Fife