Throughout Defence Questions in Parliament, Defence Secretary John Healey described the Scottish Nationwide Occasion (SNP) authorities as “a risk to our safety,” in one of the pointed interventions by a Cupboard minister on the difficulty of Scottish independence in latest months.
Conservative MP John Lamont, who represents Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, criticised the SNP’s newest independence paper, revealed by the Scottish Authorities in Edinburgh final month. The doc said that an unbiased Scotland wouldn’t host nuclear weapons.
“Does the Minister agree that Scottish independence can be a present to Britain’s enemies and would put in danger the laborious work of our armed forces in holding us secure at house?” Lamont requested.
Healey replied: “The honourable gentleman is true. The continuation of the Scottish nationalist Authorities in Scotland is a risk to our safety and to future prosperity and jobs in that nation.”
His remarks linked the SNP’s place on defence and nuclear deterrence on to the UK’s wider safety posture, seemingly portraying the Scottish Authorities’s strategy as undermining each nationwide defence and financial stability.
A short time later, Conservative MP Lincoln Jopp pressed Healey to make clear whether or not he considered China as the same risk. “Now that the Secretary of State has warmed up a bit by calling the SNP a risk to our nationwide safety, will he have one other go and say whether or not China is a risk to our nationwide safety?”
Healey dismissed the query, replying: “I’ve nothing so as to add to what I stated in response to the hon. Member for Ashfield (Lee Anderson), who requested the identical query. What a waste of a query.”