Scotland's Secret Nuclear Arsenal | Scottish Independence & the UK's Nukes

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  • Опубліковано 10 січ 2025

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  • @TieranFreedman
    @TieranFreedman  Рік тому +10

    CORRECTION: Hiroshima was bombed first, not Nagasaki.

  • @DderwenWyllt
    @DderwenWyllt Рік тому +17

    As an unelected, unwanted and unsolicited representative for Wales, I'll happily allow them to build a submarine base over here, I got some land near the coast, that I'll happily lease out for £5 a month, it's a 99 year contract with the rent divided by 0.1 per annum.
    Though they should think quickly, I have other prospective tenants wanting to build a submarine base, a really shifty bloke with an obsession for swivel chairs and stroking random stray cats.

  • @peterscraig1673
    @peterscraig1673 Рік тому +14

    The Supreme Court, ,was against SCOTLANDS GOVERNMENT , NOT SCOTLANDS PEOPLE WHO ARE SOVEREIGN AND UNDER SCOTS LAWS, AND CAN MARCH OR VOTE FOR INDEPENDENCE WITHOUT BREAKING SCOTS LAW, ANY GOVERNMENT STANDING IN THEIR WAY WOULD BE BREAKING SCOTS LAWS OF SCOTLANDS RIGHTS AND ITS PEOPLE

  • @dan79600
    @dan79600 Рік тому +10

    A theoretical yes vote for Scottish independence would be followed by years of tedious negotiations to divide assets/ debts and agree a new relationship. I'm sure the UK and Scotland would arrive at a compromise and a reasonable timetable to move military equipment somewhere else in the UK. You can't play silly game politics with a nuclear arsenal.

    • @dan79600
      @dan79600 Рік тому +2

      @@duncmcinnes8569 A classic UA-cam comment if I've ever seen one, well done sir.

    • @robertgalloway3771
      @robertgalloway3771 7 місяців тому

      IN SCOTLAND NO DEBT( NOT ALLOWED TO BORROW! SAYS ENGLAND!! WESTMINSTER HELPS ITSELF TO SCOTLAND,S RESOURCES, WESTMINSTER SPENDS THIS FINANCE ON WHAT THEY WANT!! EVERYTHING RESERVED TO WESTMINSTER! WAIT!! IS THIS BEING SOLD AS AN EQUAL UNION?? APPLY TO TORY/LABOUR SUPREME COURT! POWER TO PROROGE WESTMINSTER, RESPECT!! WHAT RESPECT??? OVER 150 COUNTRIES WANT DEATH THREAT REMOVED, SCOTLAND AGREES!! WE HAVE NINE RUST BUCKET SUBMARINES! ENGLISH!! MOVED TO DEVONPORT! WE HAVE £3.50 BILLION AIRCRAFT CARRIER IN A SCOTS LOCH, THAT COULD BE USED FOR TOURS AROUND THE ISLE OF WIGHT! 30 MILES AWAY FROM GLASGOW UNWANTED TRIDENT AN EXPENSIVE TARGET! SERVING ENGLAND NEEDS MOVED DOWN SOUTH! WHERE THE PEOPLE REALLY APPRECIATE IT AND SHOULD SOLELY BE PAYING FOR IT! WITH THEIR OWN??????FINANCE ! STARMER AND HIS TRIPLE HAS NO RIGHTS IN SCOTLAND!! OVER 317 YEARS HAS BEEN TEDIOUS, REMOVE WITH INTERNATIONAL COURT!!

  • @fleetingselfconfidence612
    @fleetingselfconfidence612 Рік тому +7

    i love despite him being left wing hes unbiased
    the conservative BBC could learn from you and then some

    • @TieranFreedman
      @TieranFreedman  Рік тому +2

      Thanks for the kind words, glad you're enjoying the videos 😁

    • @fleetingselfconfidence612
      @fleetingselfconfidence612 Рік тому +1

      @@TieranFreedman honestly im loving them. wish i discovered you sooner

    • @winterwolf9797
      @winterwolf9797 Рік тому +2

      You think the bbc is conservative? 😂

  • @thevis5465
    @thevis5465 Рік тому +5

    Why are local protests only an issue when it's in England? Why don't they care about the scottishprotests??

  • @gsnmeyer
    @gsnmeyer Рік тому

    You didnt mention that Glasgow is 52.4 miles to the west of Edinburgh as the crow flies this area is known as the central belt where 70% of Scotlands population live and work. An accident or indeed an attack would wipe most of them out and turn the central belt into a waste land for years. One of the reasons given for not moving the subs to Devonport was the population of Plymouth 264,700 . But 3.5 Million Scots are an acceptable loss ?

  • @RonTodd-gb1eo
    @RonTodd-gb1eo Рік тому +2

    The main requirement for a new site would be not too near to London.

  • @DogeickBateman
    @DogeickBateman Рік тому +7

    The biggest argument against disarmament types is that there are plenty of countries that do not want to disarm and to use their nukes as a bullying tool

    • @damnson666
      @damnson666 Рік тому +1

      Costa Rica became one of the most stable south american countries by disbanding its military, which stopped fighting against neighbour countries.
      Thought the main reason nukes are stored in scotland is that england doesn't have such a spot which is deep enough, and also the fact that most of land in england is owned by tories and, like windturbines, they dont want such base to ruin their precious countryside.

    • @DogeickBateman
      @DogeickBateman Рік тому

      @@damnson666 Costa Rica is not in any region threatened by a belligerent power. Well, unless if Venezuela for some strange reason wants to control the tourist industry of Central America

    • @damnson666
      @damnson666 Рік тому +1

      @@DogeickBateman Well its different situation compared to uk-ireland, but costa rica was in civil war which spread to nearby countries to "protect our people" and it became more stable country than its neighbours after abolishing its army,

  • @PerspectivePossibilities
    @PerspectivePossibilities 4 місяці тому +1

    Thank you sir

  • @fitzy3000
    @fitzy3000 Рік тому +1

    Awesome videos dude.

  • @rosshughes7977
    @rosshughes7977 Рік тому +4

    Theres already options for britains nuclear subs scotland doesnt hold the only sub bases in the uk they just have the ones that are out the way of prying eyes as for the weapons themselves they will be moved to one of the many secret facilities already owned by the MOD in england and thats if they havent been dispearsed and stored in muptiple facilities already with the increase of nuclear tensions the MOD had plans in place for this already

    • @KizzieWiz
      @KizzieWiz Рік тому

      Well take them now! Why don’t you? Too dangerous for England? Majority of Scots do not want them in Scotland!

    • @Thegobstopper61
      @Thegobstopper61 Рік тому

      Where.

    • @AB-ee5tb
      @AB-ee5tb Рік тому

      @@Thegobstopper61😅

  • @michaellewellyn9080
    @michaellewellyn9080 Рік тому +3

    missing your videos 😢

    • @TieranFreedman
      @TieranFreedman  Рік тому +1

      There's more on the way from this series (and I'm currently working on an entirely new one at the same time...)!

  • @FullaEels
    @FullaEels Рік тому +1

    if we get our independence, a compromise could be leasing out the bases to england, for a sort of security fund. Though in the event of independence, i still see there being a lot of military cooperation on the island.

    • @franciscruickshank8794
      @franciscruickshank8794 Рік тому

      are you mad ?im from glasgow and that pathetic 4 subs. 3 of them in for maintenance regularly are 50km. from the city ? and i dont see any compromise ! ALBA GU BRATH

  • @LobertERee
    @LobertERee Рік тому +2

    In hindsight, it's a good thing that South Africa disarmed. Scotland might want to disarm for the same reason.

  • @graemehelleur1627
    @graemehelleur1627 7 місяців тому

    England could dock their tridents on the Thames at Westminster. However, Westminster would never allow Scottish independence without a fight.

  • @johnscullion7685
    @johnscullion7685 Рік тому +2

    Scotland yes we did not won't beexit 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

  • @psychopathmedia
    @psychopathmedia Рік тому +28

    Free Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from English tyranny

    • @balls9420
      @balls9420 Рік тому +2

      You forgot one!

    • @LobertERee
      @LobertERee Рік тому

      Nationalists have to control the media, education, and banking, or it's all for nothing. "Independence" is just foreign rule by proxy.

    • @glamandy5660
      @glamandy5660 Рік тому +2

      grow up

    • @balls9420
      @balls9420 Рік тому +3

      @@glamandy5660 grow up.

    • @glamandy5660
      @glamandy5660 Рік тому

      Very original, did it take you a long time to think of that one? Gowk. @@balls9420

  • @Idahoguy10157
    @Idahoguy10157 Рік тому

    Minor correction: Hiroshima was atomic bombed before Nagasaki

  • @dooley-ch
    @dooley-ch Рік тому +1

    The UK is a great country for precedent and we have been here before.... At the turn of the last century the Royal naval base at Haulbowline in Ireland was an extremely important base. If you get out a map and examine them you will find many barracks and defence points along the coast of Cork which were there to defend a massive naval base. The harbour there is like a saucer made of solid granite and thus is very easy to defend against sub attack etc.... So as part of the Anglo Irish treaty the UK were allowed to retain this and several other ports for a period up until the bid 1930s when the ports were handed over to the Irish government.
    I would expect any dissolution of Great Britain will follow the precedents set in the dissolution of kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. And that includes things like sharing out the national debt, the military, the use of the currency, pension and social security obligations and so on.

    • @TieranFreedman
      @TieranFreedman  Рік тому

      Interesting points. It's just that if the SNP were the ones in power in this scenario, they might either refuse or extract big concessions from the UK government in return. Perhaps they could agree on a 20-year relocation period as a compromise. That being said, Scottish independence as a whole looks less likely than it did a year ago, at least in the near term.

    • @thevis5465
      @thevis5465 Рік тому +6

      @@TieranFreedman As a Scot, no it does not. Scotland is not a part of a larger country, the UK is a union of three countries. The breakup of this union is inevitable, it's just a question of whether irish reunification or Scottish independence occurs first.

    • @TieranFreedman
      @TieranFreedman  Рік тому +2

      ​@@thevis5465 I'm not disagreeing with that. I think Irish unification is drawing closer, and that support for an independent Scotland will increase if that happens first. But in the near-term, with the legal setbacks for the referendum and the challenges facing the SNP in the upcoming elections, Scottish independence isn't likely to happen in the near-term (and by that I mean within the next 1-2 election cycles, as we once thought it might).

    • @mmcc5846
      @mmcc5846 Рік тому +2

      ​@@TieranFreedmanthe SNP are not the independence movement the people on the street will decide

    • @mmcc5846
      @mmcc5846 Рік тому

      Dooley the UK not a country and it isn't great idiot

  • @derekneill
    @derekneill Рік тому

    They will have 2 years to get them out

  • @JohnnyYounitas
    @JohnnyYounitas 7 місяців тому

    Once Scotland leaves the UK its game over for the loyalist hun in the north of Ireland

  • @CommodoreRayne.IMP.C-1824
    @CommodoreRayne.IMP.C-1824 Місяць тому

    I'm all for pacifism conceptually however we live in a world where just because we wont fight, doesnt mean we wont be fought. If trident is scrapped, we are essentially defenceless considering how underfunded and understaffed the military in general is in the UK. In an ideal world we wouldnt need a nuclear deterrant however as I'm sure all of you are aware we dont live in an ideal world and im sure people will regret not having a deterrant if ICBMs start screaming towards us...

  • @markpirie1986
    @markpirie1986 10 місяців тому +1

    😂SNP, SINN FEIN AND SO ON😂😅😂,

  • @derekneill
    @derekneill Рік тому

    That would cause a war ten times worse that th Ireland troubles for Westminster

  • @DogeickBateman
    @DogeickBateman Рік тому +1

    You mixed Hiroshima and Nagasaki’s dates when they dropped

  • @craigentinny2
    @craigentinny2 4 місяці тому

    Sturgeon was and is an unprincipled self-obsessed person who tried to change Scottish independence from a movement to a personality cult. How's that going now Nikla? She could have given Faslane to Westminister in exchange for independence and worried about the details later. But no she bottled everything. How about you investigate Operation Branchform?

  • @petermclelland278
    @petermclelland278 Рік тому

    If it's a deterant, give Ukraine some.

  • @davidmurphy9151
    @davidmurphy9151 Рік тому

    Or just dissolve the program and spend the money on biscuits.

  • @derekneill
    @derekneill Рік тому +1

    No the question is Is Westminster a nesesary evil

  • @wiredfox3451
    @wiredfox3451 Рік тому +2

    When can England get independence too?

    • @mmcc5846
      @mmcc5846 Рік тому

      Wired fox when can lying leeching thieving England get to fuck more like

    • @ScottishRoss27
      @ScottishRoss27 Рік тому +8

      Its dependent on stealing everyone elses resources

    • @robertgalloway3771
      @robertgalloway3771 7 місяців тому

      IF WESTMINSTER IS AN ENGLISH PARLIAMENT IT HAS/IS INDEPENDENT, OR AT LEAST IT WOULD BE!!! IF SCOTLAND,S RESOURCES ARE NOT STOLEN! LONELY ENGLAND SHOULD STAND ALONE!!

  • @MrMigote
    @MrMigote Рік тому

    no one cares about atlas VPN

  • @jakethadley
    @jakethadley Рік тому +1

    You got the order of Hiroshima and Nagasaki reversed - pretty big mistake to make on such an important topic.
    That aside, nice dive into the topic. Would be 'interesting' to watch it evolve were independence to happen, albeit somewhat worrying.

    • @TieranFreedman
      @TieranFreedman  Рік тому +1

      Thanks for pointing that out, slip of the tongue when voicing unfortunately. Will pin a correction.

  • @KizzyKismet1
    @KizzyKismet1 Рік тому

    Scotland NO!!!

  • @clarksson674
    @clarksson674 Рік тому

    Can you answer : What currency Scotland will use, who wiĺl underwrite pensions, mortgage, insurances, debts and borrowing ? Or what will replace GB military defence and associated investments and thousands of GB linked jobs ? Or how will Scotland manage the new customs and tariff border with England and the status of Scots living and working within the British Isles after leaving the CTA ?

    • @seastnanseastnan7765
      @seastnanseastnan7765 Рік тому +1

      A very simple answer for a very simple mind; it is in the form of a question for you; "HOW DO OTHER COUNTRIES DO IT?" There! That is your answer!
      Your questions have already been answered a thousand times in a thousand different websites and on a thousand different documents and by a million different progressive independence commentators. Maybe if you did the simplest bit of research you'd have had no need to posit your idiot question in the first place? I strongly suspect though that you are not at all interested in the answers as you so obviously are a pro-unionist troll posting the same idiot questions on every independence related website you can find.

    • @woofpet
      @woofpet Рік тому +1

      @@seastnanseastnan7765exactly! Same nonsense again and again. They’re like a stuck record. The answers, simple though they are, are if no interest to then. The questions are merely to sow uncertainty. Too late - they got rumbled last time they tried that.

    • @NicholasEV1986
      @NicholasEV1986 11 місяців тому

      How does every other country manage it? I'll use croatia as an example, how did they manage after 1991? Legit question. I don't know the ins and outs of all these things, but I think well how does every other country manage yet scotland would be the only country on the planet who couldn't?

    • @clarksson674
      @clarksson674 11 місяців тому

      @NickE1986 NO other countries have a border with England or uses sterling or has GB military or GB shipping jobs ??

    • @NicholasEV1986
      @NicholasEV1986 11 місяців тому

      @@clarksson674 yeah I know that, but how couldn't this be rectified in the event of independence? Is use croatia as an example as they're a relatively new independent country, they're shared everything you mentioned there as GB with what would of been Yugolsavia. They look to me to be a relatively successful independent country.