Airstrip One
An independent Scotland should offer RAF Lossiemouth to Nato so it could be run as an airbase by the nuclear alliance, a former defence adviser to the SNP has said.
That’s got to be a joke, Sturgeon and her cronies would never approve. If they want Trident out why would they want a nuclear air base.
Scotbob
When I served at RAF Kinloss the Nats’ policy was to close the lot of them. Of course, when the MOD eventually scrapped the Nimrod fleet and turned RAF Kinloss into a minor army barracks who screamed and squealed the loudest? They’re a bunch of double-minded hypocrites.
Mickey Mckay
The world generally has changed since the 1980s. Who in the UK would have thought in 1980 that the UK would leave the EEC, or whatever it was known as
then? Communist Russia was the big enemy, now they’re hosting a World Cup football tournament which England is doing rather well in.
Rosie Mcgregor
Communist Russia, well, the Soviet Union, hosted the Olympic Games in 1980. It’s inevitable that you would believe the world has changed since the 1980s – the SNP believe the world has changed drastically and irrevocably since 2014.
World Wide Football Fan
Nato is predominantly a nuclear force, so it is surprising to see the SNP spokesman for defence calling for a Nato airbase when the party has an antinuclear stance.
Vernon Walker
It’s an interesting concept. We get Indy, but lease Lossiemouth to Nato who fill it with RUK aircraft. You couldn’t make this lot up!
Paul Holyrood
The SNP has now fully entered the world of fantasy politics. They have more concrete policy proposals for the hypothetical independent Scotland than they do the real-world, present-day Scotland. NHS, education, policing – all going to pot as we speak. Flagship SNP conference policies announced with fanfare are quietly binned. But yet, let’s talk about the military capacity of an independent Scotland. That’ll help...
Hubert It’s not an argument for independence, it is one for getting away from your warmongering WM governments.
Boyd Heales