Criminalising Trident

[butch4343]

Good Evening Ladies And Gents


This is my first post on the site and I must say its pretty fab, anyways, I read in the paper two days ago that a scottish MSP( Mike Matteson) is trying to introduce a bill making it illegal to fire nuclear weapons from scottish terriotry(I assume this also extends to the 12nm limit at sea) , this would mean that and prime minister would be criminally acountable for their use.

Now my question is this, do the MPs really know so little, as to think that the use of one or a few weapons against a rougue state would be fired whilst in faslane? Would the boat on patrol in international waters not have the firing task? If the we were in a situation where the RN had to salvo as many trident missiles as possible and "fire from the pier" then surely this would be in response to a massive attack on the UK? and in which case would faslane, the scottish parliment or indeed the UK government still exist to bring criminal procceddings? I look forward to your thoughts on this


here is a bbc link to the story

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6243639.stm

Regards butch

 

[windscorpion]

Now my question is this, do the MPs really know so little

Yeah

Its just a political posturing exercise by Matteson to make himself look good to left-wing voters.

 

[Musashi_kenshin]

As the article says, there's no chance there will be time for the bill to pass. Also there's no way it would pick up enough support to pass. Third it wouldn't make that much difference as the Scottish Parliament has no control over defence policy. Fourth even if it had an effect, the submarines would just be based further south and Scotland wouldn't get any work resulting from them being based there - they might also get less/no work in construction.

 

[Tasman]

Now my question is this, do the MPs really know so little, as to think that the use of one or a few weapons against a rougue state would be fired whilst in faslane? Would the boat on patrol in international waters not have the firing task? If the we were in a situation where the RN had to salvo as many trident missiles as possible and "fire from the pier" then surely this would be in response to a massive attack on the UK? and in which case would faslane, the scottish parliment or indeed the UK government still exist to bring criminal procceddings? I look forward to your thoughts on this

I think your comments are spot on butch. If Scottish MPs actually pass this bill it will clearly demonstrate that they are an ignorant and blinkered lot! Hopefully though the bill will be dispatched with the speed of a Trident missile.

Cheers