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MOD plan to cut costs by moving Clyde frigate work under fire

How on earth can we believe any pledges and promises made by politicians? Every slavering politician has a forked tongue. – Samuel Coldstream If this report is correct it seems to me that it would be lunacy to give the work to foreign yards. Our shipbuilders have no equals when it comes to quality. – Scotland and the Union Forever After Brexit won’t the government be allowed to subsidise ship-building and thus allow the expertise gained to build commercial ships? Maybe not the large cruise ships but smaller ferries and other unexciting but still essential ships. – Basking Shark Who is going to commission these vessels, not the SNP, they are on the way out, overspent already, and the UK government has its requirements of costeffectiveness as well. – Sepsrsic Establishment parties have been leading shipyard workers by the nose for years to keep them voting for the “established order”. – Aladdin