Scotland Need Military Assistance For Ambulsnces

[Stickybottle]

Just wondering how this would work if they ever got independence ?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-58585349

[THECORBYLOON]

As the FM said it was, "the most challenging combination of circumstances in their history", Covid is only one factor.

Unless you know what all the factors are now and what the factors were back in winter 1999/2000, how are you able to dismiss the claim?

[Mozz71]

Having done some research, it seems there are very few countries in Europe where mandatory national service is still in force, and most of those who do (Sweden, Norway, Switzerland for example) only have a 6-12 month service period.

The other countries seem to be doing okay without it.

[New Judge]

//Probably before they became statistically the unhealthiest country of the uk and all the pressures that brings to their nhs//

Scotland has been the most unhealthy country in the UK for as long as I can remember. In the early 1990s I was acquainted with a couple who ran a care home near Stonehaven. The only vegetables residents would eat were chips. They would eat no green vegetables or salad and they smoked incessantly. They virtually all had health problems associated with diet, smoking and drinking. Few of the survived beyond 70. Poor health is not a recent phenomenon in Scotland.

[Hopkirk]

It would be going back to the dark ages, where ambulance drivers just scooped people up with no medical intervention.

[webbo3]

The corbyloon @15:56


\\The Scottish Regimemts and assets in Scotland would be used.//

They no assets, the assets belong to the British army, they would need to buy some.

[THECORBYLOON]

"We will inherit a share of existing UK defence assets, giving us most of the equipment we need to establish Scotland's defence forces in the immediate post-independence period. The division of assets and liabilities will of course need to be negotiated. However, by way of indication, in 2007 the Ministry of Defence estimated the total value of its assets and investments[260] at just under £93 billion. A Scottish share based on population would be around £7.8 billion."

[DTCwordfan]

You beat me to this one, Sticky - especially with the extra funding they get from the Barnett formula - what do they spend the money on - apart from lining the Party coffers....Surely all the Mars Bars eaters and extra druggies don't necessitate the Army being called in though, I guess, there will be plenty of available personnel and carriers if Nicola closes Faslane.

[DTCwordfan]

sorry, Barlett formula....I see Belfast has similar issues.

[New Judge]

Presumably with the new McPoonds (exchange rate: £Mc250 to one pound Sterling) they are going to introduce :-)

[DTCwordfan]

Alternative will be 1 Haggis - equiv of 250 McPoonds, but only if one walks anti-clockwise around to the bank or ATM......

[anneasquith]

DT. Red or white at dinner ?

[DTCwordfan]

Nothing actually - just thinking about a glass of red with M-Chef on soon. Can't stand a bit of banter at this news, perhaps - but the point about where does the extra dosh go as we don't see it the investments that you have north of Hadrian's down here in Cornwall. Our local NHS hospital system is a disgrace what with the Trust being deemed incapable...(read Treliske, not the cottage hossies like Hayle, St Awful, Penzance or Falmouth).

[DTCwordfan]

And, Anne, from one of the lowest rates of covid/100k, we have been the highest in the UK - since (i) Boris's foray on St Ives, Falmouth (and Penryn) and Newquay, numbers beginning to drop now that (ii) the tourists have gone home and (iii) the Boardmasters is over...Newquay and around the airport were running very close to 2000 cases/100k two weeks ago.

Did we get Government assistance or the Army in to help support the emergency services? Simply - NO! (though Devon has now asked for support but not yet given). One law for the Bartletts and one for the rest of us.....

[THECORBYLOON]

The English NHS had help from the Army in August so it's not only Scotland needing assistance.

[ynnafymmi]

@20.58.Thank God then that the British Army are still around to help out the wee glorified toon cooncil up here in Embra then TCL.But from all accounts the IRA supporters amongst the SNP arent happy,not happy at all at the British Army having to bale out the wee Nats.

[THECORBYLOON]

Is the assistance being provided by soldiers based outwith Scotland?

[Stickybottle]

THECORBYLOON
The English NHS had help from the Army in August so it's not only Scotland needing assistance.

But England are not talking about holding another referendum over independence hence my question when I started the thread

[roadman]

the scottish are part of a system they could live without

reminds me of the UK and brexit

but should they live without it?

if scottland leave all the money they put into the joint fund will all just go to them to be able to fund and pay for their own services

it's honestly that simple

[THECORBYLOON]

I was pre-empting any criticism of their being needed in Scotland.

[ynnafymmi]

Having the British Army up here in Scotland helping the SNP/IRA out of their own self induced difficulties must really stick in the craw of SNP supporters.