right, so you're saying multi-national company BAE systems
will lose contacts, that it has already won, due to scottish independence. and BAE would revert to an English company, still being the largest arms firm in England.
Umm, why would the English government punish them and risk jobs in portsmouth and plymouth?
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 15:02, 2 replies, latest was 13 years ago)

Potsmouth and Plymouth are shit enough to be Scottish, and so the circle completes itself

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 15:05, Reply)

I'm not sure if your dimness is caused by coming from Glasgow or whether you were merely dropped on your head as a child
BAE can own shipyards wherever the fuck it likes, but if the 'English' MOD is writing the cheques, they can insist on which yards the ships are built in - e.g. Portsmouth, Plymouth, Barrow etc.

The contracts already signed will be honoured, but the MOD have already hinted that they won't be putting any future business in the direction of Scottish yards following independence.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 15 Oct 2012, 15:07, Reply)

I'd insist that they were built in Solihull

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 15:08, Reply)

yeah, but you see, that's bollocks.
the work is done in scottish yards for a reason chumpo.
and, it's cheaper. that might swing things. it's hardly like building them in fucking iran.
( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 15:08, Reply)

Cost doesn't come into it. Votes do.
The English government won't send work north of the border if it means English yards suffer.

You're really not thinking this through at all.
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 15 Oct 2012, 15:11, Reply)

pointless argument, of which you are worng, it won't happen anyway.

( mark morrisons prison shoes I love Willie, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 15:12, Reply)

That's a compelling argument right there

(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 15 Oct 2012, 15:17, Reply)

Before WW1 ship work was spread out
across as many yards as possible to keep them going so in the event of war we could outbuild the Germans. Cost didn't come into it. Defence is dictated by politics, not cost.
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 15:18, Reply)

www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/scottish-independence-navy-frigate-contracts-will-be-held-after-uk-split-vote-1-2479063
(Reverend Fister "a disciplined fuckwit", Mon 15 Oct 2012, 15:19, Reply)

cheaper? bollocks
cheaper = Korea, see above
(localboy purveyor of pisspoor puns, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 15:14, Reply)

Gangnam Style!

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Mon 15 Oct 2012, 15:17, Reply)