Amazing just a few short weeks before elections in Scotland this news "pops" out.
Now, as I blogged some weeks ago, they have been arguing about this for some 9-10 years now.
It does seem a bit fortuitous that the announcement is going to happen in the next week. Call me cynical!
Warship deal to secure Scots jobs
A damning report by the Defence Committee indicates that
THE Royal Navy could be left without working aircraft carriers because of continuing delays and doubts surrounding the MoD's management of the £3.6 billion project to buy new vesselsApparently this has been going on for 9-10 years and the report continues as follows
The Ministry of Defence says it is waiting for "consolidation" in the maritime industry. Navy sources also fear the main gate decision now depends on the Comprehensive Spending Review in July. "Gordon Brown is keeping the navy dangling," one navy source said. The House of Commons defence committee warns of the "risk" that the carriers will be late, "leaving the Royal Navy without a carrier strike capability".Perhaps we will just have to go and buy some from India instead.
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