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Labour “fought tooth and nail” to close Uist rocket range 4/8/14
Dear Sirs,
The "No Campaign" leader Jim Murphy is reported to have told a meeting that, if Scotland votes Yes on September 18th, the Uist rocket range will close. Yet more silly scaremongering from the No Campaign.
Mr Murphy, it should be recalled, was a member of a Government which fought tooth and nail to close the base in 2008.
In January 2012 Mr Murphy, in his role as Shadow Defence Secretary, published his "Defence Review" which called for "cuts of £350 million a year from rationalising the defence establishment." The defence establishment includes facilities like the rocket range.
I wrote to him on no fewer than three occasions, asking him about the implications for the rocket range, but he failed to tell me. What does he have to hide?
The Referendum choice for the people of the Western Isles, and especially the Uists, is crystal clear.
Either they vote Yes for a cast iron guarantee from the Scottish Government that the base will remain open as a key part of Scotland's defence infrastructure, or they vote No and put their livelihoods in the hands of the next Conservative Government.
Which will be dominated by MPs from south-
Dr David Wilson
12b Tolsta Chaolais
Isle of Lewis