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Offline kenkay

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Shipbuilding
« on: November 07, 2013, 12:10:53 PM »
Should BAE delay their decision on which shipyards to close until after the Scottish independent vote?



Offline usedbustickets

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Re: Shipbuilding
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2013, 13:04:41 PM »
Or we could ask the question, should the UK government have allowed its military shipbuilding to be owned and controlled by a foreign company?

Offline johntaylor49

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Re: Shipbuilding
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2013, 13:17:32 PM »
Scottish independence will never happen, and the yards on the Clyde better suited to modern shipbuilding anyway.

There are 12,000 people employed in the Portsmouth Dockyards operation overall, 800 jobs lost it will affect people and I feel for them, but the impact on a small Union Country of 6 million people if the Clyde closed would be catastrophic.

We had a good shipbuilding industry but Maggie saw to it that it was murdered! Yards with a full order book, like Mines with huge coal reserves, were closed for political reasons and the country bankrolled with wasted reserves of Oil from Scotland. To be frank I feel we owe the Scots!!  :)





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