Originally Posted by
Asturias56
I'm sure the RN would love to get shot of those old hulks - they take up space, they have to be protected and even kept in some state of repair so that Plymouth & half of C Scotland aren't turned into a wasteland.
Arguably Plymouth and Central Scotland are wastelands anyway. .....
In fact, the boats are perfectly safe and something would have to go catastrophically awry to generate the scenario you describe. That's the sort of narrative the SNP like to push.