{"id":5025,"date":"2012-01-27T12:00:49","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2012-01-27T12:00:49","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T12:00:49","slug":"how-much-will-england-pay-for-access-to-coulport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/how-much-will-england-pay-for-access-to-coulport\/","title":{"rendered":"How much will England pay for access to Coulport?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Telegraph are reporting today that the Westminster government after a Yes vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum will be willing to pay any price to keep Coulport<\/a>, the navy base where the submarines are loaded with nuclear missiles:<\/p>\n

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MoD insiders believe that, after an independence vote, ministers in London would have no choice but to strike a deal with Scottish leaders allowing the Navy to go on using Coulport and Faslane until an alternative was ready.<\/p>\n

That would give Scotland\u2019s new government bargaining power over other issues like their share of the UK national debt and other financial liabilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cMaintaining the deterrent is the first priority for any UK government, so ministers in London would have to pay Salmond any price to ensure we kept access to [the Clyde bases],\u201d said a source. \u201cIt would be an unbelievable nightmare.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’ve no doubt that an independent Scotland will want to get rid of the nuclear warheads eventually, but even just delaying the move by ten years might be worth quite a lot when the Scottish and RUK negotiation teams are discussing North Sea oil, the maritime border<\/a>, ownership of the Bank of Scotland and the Royal Bank of Scotland, and other contentious issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

G2BLoLo4a Originally uploaded by rojabro The Telegraph are reporting today that the Westminster government after a Yes vote in the Scottish Independence Referendum will be willing to pay any price to keep Coulport, the navy base where the submarines are loaded with nuclear missiles: MoD insiders believe that, after an independence vote, ministers in London would have no choice but to strike a deal with Scottish leaders allowing the Navy to go on using Coulport and Faslane until an alternative was ready. That would give Scotland\u2019s new […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,121,139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-military","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}