Originally Posted by
Typhoon93
The thought of having a Trident base South of the border is nice. Although if I've got this right, the British Armed Forces serve Great Britain, so an independent Scotland will no longer be part of Great Britain, therefore they will no longer get to call their selves British. So, no. Bring the Trident subs to British bases, bring all of our equipment and personnel to Britain and let them have their own armed forces. Fair?
If they want independence then they can have independence, but not at the cost of shrinking our armed forces even further.
Unless of course they want to pay for all of the equipment and personnel. Those Typhoons are pretty expensive, and the Subs will break the bank a bit.
Ahem, whilst I am by no manner a separatists, I would respectfully point out that we HAVE already paid for them, with our taxes, in the same way as England, Wales and Northern Ireland have.