Chopper2004, who said I was joking about leasing options for four extremely strategic airfields, five if we count Stornoway? Not sure as I write if Saxa Vord is still operational (aware it's not an airfield, but is/was pretty strategic).
If we're independent we'll have to find some way of making ends meet "when the oil runs out (!!)".
We'll never manage with just the fishing, agriculture, tourism, power generation (renewables, hydro electric, nuclear), whisky and oil decommissioning work, not to mention the intellectual property, a first world education system and several world class Universities churning out some of the best qualified, motivated and employable graduates in the world. No, it'd never do to go it alone.
Funny, though, how Norway manages it with most of the above.
