SNP & Nuclear Weapons
Posted: 19th May 2025
Bill Ramsay: I’M puzzled as to why any proponent of Scottish nationalism would be daft enough to tamper with a key tenet of SNP policy, the removal of Broken Britain’s broken Vanguard fleet from Scotland. The four Vanguard submarines carry the Trident nuclear missiles Britain rents at the pleasure of President Trump. It’s been an axiom of Scottish politics that although the SNP’s anti-nuclear policy is not in the SNP constitution, it’s in the party’s DNA. In recent weeks, though, there’s been a rash of reports that some people who were once important in the SNP want to back a British bomb. The timing of this has an air of panic. Those who wish to hold fast to the crumbling totem of a British bomb are normally motivated not by real security threats or concerns but by a delusional iteration of British greatness. Bear in mind this off-stage pining for retention of the British bomb (they dare not reveal themselves) is taking place at precisely the same time as a central tenet of UK nuclear strategy is disintegrating before our eyes.
The National 17th May 2025