They looked at moving it to England before, literally nowhere is deemed suitable due to geography or the risks to cities (putting it near Glasgow is fine though...)
It's a massive bargaining chip for Scotland. Either get your nukes out today, and have nowhere to put them, killing the deterrent, or pay a fortune to rent faslane.
If you imagine a theoretical base lease is going to be anything like the scale of Scotlandās share of the UK debt, youāre stretching the limits of credibility.
Nope. Just hold on to the bases as sovereign territory Ć la Cyprus. Given the local economy revolves around them itās not even a hard sell.
Scotland is the poorer demandeur in this scenario and if a hardline nationalist government wants to play silly games, they would win some very stupid prizes.
Just misss the bit about "we'll just keep a bit of your country, use it to store weapons we consider too dangerous for our own country, and you can suck it"?
If we're getting to claim bits of other countries because we think they're valuable does Wales get to claim Heathrow? Just declare it sovereign territory; given the local economy revolves around them it's not even a hard sell.
Itās extremely funny that your own magical thinking and boastful claims being called out has annoyed you so much.
The fact you think the Heathrow analogy works is also just a bit odd. Itād (maybe) make sense if England wanted āall planesā out of its territory or something, and air travel was some vital strategic interest, but as it stands itās just a bit strange.
The fact youāre reacting like this to an entirely rational response to a Scottish government deciding to take a hardline approach first is both incredibly telling and a neat explanation of why this stuff is pointless: the victimhood card will always be played.
Managing to get wound up over even a hypothetical is just sad. Iām sorry that reality isnāt going to be a scenario where there is equality of negotiating power and optionality, but thatās how it is. A āsuperiority complexā doesnāt come into it, Iām afraid.
This is a giving nice echoes of the āno, the EU will definitely just give us everything we wantā stuff from Brexiters, and the UK was definitely on more solid footing viz. the EU than iScotland would be when dealing with the rUK.
Faslane is nowhere near Glasgow with mountainous terrain, valleys etc poses no realistic threat to the city.. but you do you and keep crying how your the victim of big bad England
Falmouth mate, nuclear deterrent goes to Falmouth. Deepwater port direct access to the North Atlantic and quite conveniently just down the coast from Plymouth who does all the maintenance on our submarines.
Like I said, they looked at locations in England and deemed every one of them either non-viable, costs too much, or is deemed too much of a risk to the local population.
England could move trident out of Scotland today; but nowhere offers the scope of what faslane does, and it would be exorbitantly expensive to do so.
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