Due to a policy of not spending public funds on weapons systems, Scottish Enterprise pulled a 2.5mill grant, so Rolls Royce are taking their ball and going home.
My favourite part of the article is where they keep insisting that the rule about funding weapons shouldn’t apply because they wouldn’t be working on missiles, just the submarines that carry them.
Won’t someone please think of the military industrial complex
>Plans to establish a specialist submarine welding facility on the banks of the Clyde have collapsed after Scottish Enterprise, an economic development agency overseen by the Scottish Government, withdrew a critical £2.5 million grant
This is a disaster for Scotland.
Demand for non-US subs is soaring worldwide. These are good jobs.
High end welding is the kind of specialist high tech manufacturing capacity we should be actively seeking to develop.
But this is what happens when you govern through quangos- direct ministerial oversight is lost and the quangocrats apply policy through the narrow lense of their brief and not what is best for Scotland.
A policy they get round all the time when it suits them, begs the question what would an independent armed forces use super soakers? Naval ship building falls under this as well that’s 4-5 thousand jobs across Clyde and rosyth probably another 2-3 thousand through supply chain and that’s just ship building there is also Thales, RTX, leonardo.thats a good 10,000 plus jobs mostly good paying high skilled jobs as well .
Who needs high skilled good paying jobs and a strong defence sector during global unrest, appears the snp think Scotland doesn’t
So, they don’t want to spend public funds on weapon systems, but are happy to be defended by the £50 billion the UK government spends on defence?
If they are that idealistic ban the build of weapons on Scottish soil – no aircraft carriers, no Type 31 frigates.
It’s just a boneheaded policy.
One of the reasons I wouldn’t vote yes under a snp government, simply can’t be trusted on defence matters, and with the way the world is going, that simply isn’t acceptable.
the above article links to this article in the Times which has a lot more information about what it is that is being proposed: https://archive.is/t8ep8
Rolls-Royce have £11m in equipment for a “specialist welding centre”, they want a building for it, they want a building in the proposed “Scottish Marine Technology Park”, a joint plan with Strathclyde University and Malin group (a marine technology firm), intended to revitalise the shipbuilding and offshore engineering sector in Scotland, not just naval shipbuilding, but civilian shipbuilding, offshore construction of wind & other renewables, and so on.
The 2.5m grant would be for a building in the proposed marine technology park, and would allow anything developed there that has civilian applications, to be more easily accessible and applied to the likes of Ferguson. It’s a lot easier to share technology when you can just walk across the street to another building for a working lunch or whatever.
So… pulling the grant, and causing Rolls-Royce to look elsewhere, does seem a bit short-sighted.
The SNP proving once again that they’re in Putins pocket.
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Due to a policy of not spending public funds on weapons systems, Scottish Enterprise pulled a 2.5mill grant, so Rolls Royce are taking their ball and going home.
My favourite part of the article is where they keep insisting that the rule about funding weapons shouldn’t apply because they wouldn’t be working on missiles, just the submarines that carry them.
Won’t someone please think of the military industrial complex
>Plans to establish a specialist submarine welding facility on the banks of the Clyde have collapsed after Scottish Enterprise, an economic development agency overseen by the Scottish Government, withdrew a critical £2.5 million grant
This is a disaster for Scotland.
Demand for non-US subs is soaring worldwide. These are good jobs.
High end welding is the kind of specialist high tech manufacturing capacity we should be actively seeking to develop.
But this is what happens when you govern through quangos- direct ministerial oversight is lost and the quangocrats apply policy through the narrow lense of their brief and not what is best for Scotland.
A policy they get round all the time when it suits them, begs the question what would an independent armed forces use super soakers? Naval ship building falls under this as well that’s 4-5 thousand jobs across Clyde and rosyth probably another 2-3 thousand through supply chain and that’s just ship building there is also Thales, RTX, leonardo.thats a good 10,000 plus jobs mostly good paying high skilled jobs as well .
Who needs high skilled good paying jobs and a strong defence sector during global unrest, appears the snp think Scotland doesn’t
So, they don’t want to spend public funds on weapon systems, but are happy to be defended by the £50 billion the UK government spends on defence?
If they are that idealistic ban the build of weapons on Scottish soil – no aircraft carriers, no Type 31 frigates.
It’s just a boneheaded policy.
One of the reasons I wouldn’t vote yes under a snp government, simply can’t be trusted on defence matters, and with the way the world is going, that simply isn’t acceptable.
Given Rolls-Royce’s [links](https://palestinecampaign.org/psc-company/rolls-royce/) to our genocidal ally in the middle east, I’m glad my tax money isn’t being given to them.
the above article links to this article in the Times which has a lot more information about what it is that is being proposed: https://archive.is/t8ep8
Rolls-Royce have £11m in equipment for a “specialist welding centre”, they want a building for it, they want a building in the proposed “Scottish Marine Technology Park”, a joint plan with Strathclyde University and Malin group (a marine technology firm), intended to revitalise the shipbuilding and offshore engineering sector in Scotland, not just naval shipbuilding, but civilian shipbuilding, offshore construction of wind & other renewables, and so on.
The 2.5m grant would be for a building in the proposed marine technology park, and would allow anything developed there that has civilian applications, to be more easily accessible and applied to the likes of Ferguson. It’s a lot easier to share technology when you can just walk across the street to another building for a working lunch or whatever.
So… pulling the grant, and causing Rolls-Royce to look elsewhere, does seem a bit short-sighted.
The SNP proving once again that they’re in Putins pocket.
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