Another issue is an increasingly incessent, nasily, "We're no wantin' it here, pal!" emanating from quite a few areas of the Clyde Valley. Every single Scottish Labour branch office in the Clyde area voted in favour of scrapping the UK deterrent at their party conference last year. The major issue isn't the Faslane base
itself, it's the nuclear weapon storage facility at Coulport.
Glasgow (and the 41 per cent of Scotland's population who live in the area) doesn't do being considered expendable, apparently.
Personally, the UK should keep them, but I'm all in favour of the base being shifted elsewhere. Glasgow's whinging get's a little grating after a while....
Mike.
