HMS Ambush Returning to HMNB Clyde, Scotland. Image cropped and slightly lightened. Photo: Photo: UK Ministry of Defence / flickr CC.
Trident and Scotland
Glen Reynolds looks at the referendum debate and beyond the rhetoric on Trident
In a heated televised debate Nicola Sturgeon, of the Scottish National Party (SNP), let slip a profound truth that had a human, and a seemingly personal, significance often lost in the Scottish Yes-No referendum debate. For those, like myself, who have had, or have now, a Quaker or peace-church focused agenda, it shed fresh light as to what resonates a great deal for those voting Yes, regardless of their political affiliation.
The deputy first minister stated, almost as an aside (and by way of a speedy response to a comment by Johann Lamont, of the Scottish Labour Party, about post Scottish independence/Trident and defence policy): ‘I was a member of CND before I ever joined the SNP.’
