Re: So much for 'increased spending' on Trident.
Originally Posted by
Uncle Joe
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As I recall, there is a huge field of oil/natural gas just off the Hebrides which needs tapping into. Once Faslane is closed to the Royal Navy, it and the skills of the workforce there can be used to build and service exploration platforms.
Indeed, if you are correct (I simply don't know and am happy to take your word for it
), this would actually potentially produce wealth and income for the country rather than the expenditure of throwing taxpayer's money into the pot and watch it spin around before trying to gather as much of it as possible back up through taxation to throw back into the pot
It may well make us more independent in terms of energy resources and decrease (at least temporarily) the contentious issue of fracking from taking place.