Latest scaremongering from the Too Poor To Be Apart camp is that a separate Scotland could not afford to look after its national security.
Latest scaremongering from the Too Poor To Be Apart camp is that a separate Scotland could not afford to look after its national security.
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Tom Shields
David Lidington, a Foreign Office minister, said an independent Scotland would face "enormous" costs to build sophisticated new spying and security facilities, and train its agents. Call me naïve but when the divorce comes, surely Scotland gets to keep about 10% of all the stuff the UK has acquired in the last three centuries?
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spying for Scotland
Latest scaremongering from the Too Poor To Be Apart camp is that a separate Scotland could not afford to look after its national security.
David Lidington, a Foreign Office minister, said an independent Scotland would face "enormous" costs to build sophisticated new spying and security facilities, and train its agents. Call me naïve but when the divorce comes, surely Scotland gets to keep about 10% of all the stuff the UK has acquired in the last three centuries?
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