"Why this sudden interest in basing assets in Scotland you ask? Because if you're trying to plug the GIUK gap, the Home Counties are not the best place to base your ASW aircraft. "
yet oddly for years the RAAF based most of its assets far away from the northern end of the country - presumably they were worried about Tasmania declaring UDI. And the British have the Corps of Naval Constructors in that industrial powerhouse of Bath.........................
Things don't always go where logic would dictate