I rather imagine that the reason Fred Flin... sorry... ahem, Alex Salmond has not been anywhere near sufficiently forth coming about the Defence arrangements of a wholly independent Scotland is because he hasn't got a clue what he's going to do. It's rather like some starry eyed teenager with a silly idea about running away to London or America or something like that, in order to seek their fame and fortune. When Dad puts his paper down for a second and asks; just what are you going to do for money ? where are you going to stay exactly? the teenager irrationally regards such questions as being deliberately posed to be awkward, rather than a serious attempt to see how far the teenager has thought through the plan. And that is exactly how Salmond responds to the Independent Scotland Defence and Security question. He simply doesn't know, and what's more, its not that particular part about an Independent Scotland that he is particularly interested in and would rather people stopped annoying him with questions about it!
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