r/PoursTea • u/Timbucktwo1230 🫖 Mod ☕️ • Sep 14 '26

European Renaissance 🍾 🧀 🍻 🇬🇧The Future?

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u/Plus_Key_2325 Sep 14 '26

No way debt England takes on all of it. It will be distributed or used as a bargaining chip for something else.

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u/kaetror Sep 14 '26

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.

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u/Plus_Key_2325 Sep 14 '26

UK debt is £3 trillion. Scotland makes up 8% of the population so "fair share" is £240 billion.

I can't see any future English government taking that for no reason.

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u/kaetror Sep 14 '26

That's what makes faslane the bargaining chip.

That fair share goes down, or park trident on the Thames.

It's not an unreasonable request that if someone is using your land you get paid rent for the service provided.

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u/Adr_LDN Sep 14 '26

If you imagine a theoretical base lease is going to be anything like the scale of Scotland’s share of the UK debt, you’re stretching the limits of credibility.