I mean, if I'd ever come up with a script for a play about independence that had that long streak of misery, British Virgin Islands Hammond, coming to Scotland for a day to tell us that shipbuilding in our country would die without the UK...
...and had I gone on to suggest that the UK would never build its warships abroad...
... and had I then depicted a winning "no" side....
... and then, had I suggested that 6 weeks or so later, the UK's head of the navy would announce that there was a good chance that in fact the new ships wouldn't be built in Scotland after all... but in France, un paye étranger, I might add...
...the producer would have thrown the script in the bin and said... you have to go for some reality, Tris. The audience'd never believe this rubbish. Don't give up your day job!
Well...
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| With friends like you, and a Tory government, who needs enemies? |
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| Erm yeah, the future of it going down the pan? |
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| Sep...what????? Oh wait, it was Ian Davidson. |
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| You did a really crap job, Margrit. |
On
the banks of the Clyde, three thousand men and women go to work week after week
in one of this country's great industries - shipbuilding. Thousands more rely
on those high-skilled jobs for their own employment.
How many of those jobs would you put at risk to vote Yes? That's the very real question facing the SNP this morning and once again they don't have any answers. That's why the campaign by Johann Lamont and Margaret Curran is so crucial. When launching the campaign Johann said:
"Scotland has a proud history of shipbuilding and despite the serious challenges the industry has faced over a long period, the skills and expertise of the workforce mean that Scottish shipbuilding has a bright future if it secures the defence contracts planned by the UK Government.
"But these jobs are at risk. There is a danger that if we vote Yes in September we won't have a shipbuilding industry any longer, because we're reliant on UK defence contracts."
At the start of 2012 the UK Government confirmed that the contracts for the Type 26 will be granted in the middle of the decade, after the referendum on independence. I often have worried about the Tory Government's industrial strategy, but today it's the SNP that poses a greater threat to Scotland's naval shipbuilding.
How many of those jobs would you put at risk to vote Yes? That's the very real question facing the SNP this morning and once again they don't have any answers. That's why the campaign by Johann Lamont and Margaret Curran is so crucial. When launching the campaign Johann said:
"Scotland has a proud history of shipbuilding and despite the serious challenges the industry has faced over a long period, the skills and expertise of the workforce mean that Scottish shipbuilding has a bright future if it secures the defence contracts planned by the UK Government.
"But these jobs are at risk. There is a danger that if we vote Yes in September we won't have a shipbuilding industry any longer, because we're reliant on UK defence contracts."
At the start of 2012 the UK Government confirmed that the contracts for the Type 26 will be granted in the middle of the decade, after the referendum on independence. I often have worried about the Tory Government's industrial strategy, but today it's the SNP that poses a greater threat to Scotland's naval shipbuilding.
No thanks to shipbuilding, eh Jim?
Hmmmmm....
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| About as accurate as the rest of your facts |
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| "You shall have your reward, what's your name again? I'll make you supervisor of the branch office in Glasburgh and I'll get rid of that awful woman, what's her name? Norman Lamont?" |
