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Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Every Scot to save £300 per year on defence after independence, new report claims

Vanguard-class |A report by the Royal United Services Institute (RUS) has claimed that Scottish taxpayers could pay about £1.5bn (approximately £300 per person per year) less for defending independent Scotland than they do now towards the UK defence.

The report, named ‘A’the Blue Bonnets: Defending an Independent Scotland’, was co-written by Stuart Crawford, a former SNP defence advisor and the economist Richard Marsh.

It examined the future of Scottish armed services if Scotland gained independence, looking at what these separate military bodies would be for and how they might be organized. Nuclear weapons would play no part.

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