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Two leaders. Two legacies. But what exactly can Mrs Thatcher and Mr

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Blair teach their parties today? As Maggie exits stage right, we

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will ask Tory Chairman Grant Shapps whether his party can ever win

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outright again. And after Tony Blair's warning that

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Ed Miliband's Labour risks becoming a party of protest, not power, we

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are joined by former Home Secretary How will history judge the battle

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between Mrs Thatcher and the unions and what is their role in Britain

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today? The TUC secretary and the former trade minister Digby Jones

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go head-to-head. And on Sunday Politics Scotland: Is

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the SNP's policy of no-nuclear weapons compatible with NATO's

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nuclear stance? Has the First Minister's trip to

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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 1820 seconds

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Do you accept that looking back, by 1979, the unions had got too big

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for their boots and no matter who won the election, they would be

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taken down? We can argue about the 1970s but it was Britain's most

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equalled decade and what followed, you can draw up a direct line

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between Margaret Thatcher's policies of demonising the unions,

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but also deregulating the banks, privatising utilities, and selling

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off council homes without replacing them, you can draw a direct line

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between that and the mess we are living with today.

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She did not answer the question. In 1979, this country was in such a

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mess because of four or Fife and democratically elected people

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decided on behalf of the whole nation -- at five. And Labour

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Chancellor Denis Healey said, I will cut one penny off basic rate

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income tax are four union leaders agreed to a �6 pay rise limit, so

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who was running the country? What I find sad about these demonstrations

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and a refusal to answer that question is that those who were

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around at the time realised it was not Margaret Thatcher that brought

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the unions into with proper place in society, it actually was Britain.

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But because the average skilled working person in my home town of

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Birmingham was told, you will join a union or you will not have a job

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and if you were going to vote against what we want, we will beat

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you up! That is no way to run a society and Britain knew that, so

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it was the average person in the street food at the. Of -- in the

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street that did that. Answer this with yes or no, it was

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Margaret Thatcher right to introduce secret ballots for

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industrial action? Unions are democratic organisations. Yes or

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no? I would like to talk about what is happening now and not just in

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the past. Unions are democratic organisations. Washy right? It is

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members who will decide. -- was she right. There was strong support for

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strikes, it is insulting to ordinary people to support -- to

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suggest otherwise. Was she right? We are democratic organisations now

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and we are not interested in looking at battles of the 1970s but

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looking at the mess we have had because unions have been

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marginalised and societies. We had great support for the public sector

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pensions strike in 2011, two thirds of the public supported us,

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something is very wrong in Britain today and diverting the debate on

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to the 1970s will not help us sort out today. Clearly I have failed to

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get your attitudes on this. The unions have clearly lost power

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since 1979, Digby Jones, but the consequence has been there has been

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a big move in this country from our share of wealth going to profits at

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the expense of wages, wages have a small percentage of the GDP than

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before, but companies are not spending these profits. If readers

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were higher, the economy would do better, would it not? Statistically,

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you are right. There is one great example where shareholders have

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suffered at the expense of the workers and that is called bankers'

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bonuses, they have had bonuses at the expense of pension funds and

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you know I am right in that! Breeches, real wages have fallen

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and that is one of the reasons we are still in recession -- wages.

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do not think that is one of the reasons, because of the enhanced

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profit retained in the business, they are not spending it because of

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lack of confidence, a view of right. Francis is doing herself down

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because if you look at a private sector, the assets of partnership

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between good-quality unions and business is brilliant and is an

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example for Europe. Go look at Rolls Royce, for example, the

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unionised places -- look at. It will become attractive to capital

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from the world, the issue is the public sector. Act we have not got

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enough time. -- we have not. The majority of people believe the

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balance of power is too much in the favour of employers and that

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growing inequality we saw on the Thatcher and is increasing

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massively again today is one of the important causes of the crash --

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under Thatcher. There is too much power at the top and not enough for

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ordinary people and we need a different economy to move forward,

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even the Christian Democrats in Germany now accept that we just

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need to rise and collective bargaining needs to spread, and I

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think employers like Digby Jones he joined the union much in favour of

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Bombardier staying open it must have joined us and argue for a

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proper industrial policy for jobs and growth. And you for joining me.

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Good morning and welcome back to Sunday Politics Scotland. Coming up

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on the programme. NATO has suggested if Scotland

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becomes a "new state," it would not be a member of the Military

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Alliance, and would have to apply to join. The First Minister has

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said he is certain a request for continued membership of NATO would

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be accepted, despite his commitment to make Scotland nuclear-free.

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We will be live in Washington, with a former White House Special

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Assistant to President George W Bush and one-time chair of NATO's

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Nuclear Policy Committee, the High Level Group.

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And we have heard from the great and the good on Thatcher's legacy,

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but how did living through the '80s affect people's lives? What was the

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NATO and nukes. They go together like bread and butter, or should

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that be chalk and cheese, depending on your political persuasion? Both

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have seen action this weekend on Scottish soil. War games are being

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played out off the Scottish coast, with NATO and other allied forces,

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as part of a joint military warrior exercise. Meanwhile, Scrap Trident

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demonstrators gathered in Glasgow yesterday, ahead of a planned anti-

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nuclear protest at Faslane on Monday.

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The First Minister has also been in the States, reassuring the

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Americans that an independent Scotland would be a reliable

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military partner, without nuclear weapons. We caught up with our

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correspondent, Glenn Campbell, who has been following the story State-

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side this week. As an independent country, Scotland

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would have to establish itself internationally by taking up a seat

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at the United Nations and a son -- and becoming an independent member

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of the European Union and NATO. Alex Salmond stepped into the

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international arena, visiting the United States this week, and he

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presented himself as a Prime Minister in waiting. Rather than

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taking part and the colourful Tartan Day Parade, he made the

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second of three speeches on the future of Scotland. In Washington

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he made former up -- he met former US Secretary of State Colin Powell

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but did not get an appointment with anybody in the current

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administration. He delivered a message to them by making the third

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speech at the Brookings Institution on defence, to reassure Watson

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turned -- Washington that an independent Scotland would be a

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reliable partner in NATO, participating in the air and naval

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defence of Europe, as a non nuclear member of this nuclear alliance.

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Alex Salmond says it is possible and certain he believes that could

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be negotiated between a point at which there is a yes vote in the

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referendum and the point of independence, a year and a half

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later. NATO has said if Scotland is regarded as a new state, it would

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not be a member of NATO and that contrasts with Alex Salmond's

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position. There is a warning, NATO says a definitive do for --

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definitive determination and would have to be made by the 28 member

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countries, they have not discussed it. Alex Salmond is hoping in the

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event of independence, they would be more accommodating than that

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statement would suggest. Let's cross now to Washington,

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where we can talk to Franklin Miller. Franklin was a Special

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Assistant to President George W Bush for four years and a Senior

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Director for Defense Policy on the National Security Council. He has

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also spent over two decades as a senior official in the Defense

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Department and served for five years as the chair of NATO's

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Nuclear Policy Committee, the High Level Group.

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He could morning. -- good morning. We are hearing from our reporter,

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what do you think of the SNP's plans to secure NATO membership but

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remain free of nuclear weapons? first thing we have to establish as

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the basic principle that NATO is a defensive alliance whose job is to

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prevent aggression against member countries. And nuclear deterrence

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is a critical element of NATO's policy, as endorsed most recently

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twice in November 2010 at the Lisbon summit and made 2012 at the

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Chicago so met by the leaders of the 28 NATO countries. -- a summit.

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So the question is if the SNP believes nuclear deterrence is an

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acceptable on principle. I have seen press reports that suggest the

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SNP believe nuclear-weapons are illegal and should be banned and if

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that is the case, that is inconsistent with the NATO position

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that they are a critical part of the alliance defence component.

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his article 5 of the alliance defence treaty, is it not? -- that

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is. It is part of the agreement from the defence policy review as

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agreed in 22nd May of a. Alex Salmond, in his speech to the

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bricking -- to the Brookings Institute, and spoke about

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continued membership of NATO, put thwart Robert son this week said

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Scotland as an independent country would have to reapply -- Lord

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Robertson. What do you think? think Lord Robertson is right that

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an independent Scotland would have to reapply. So the first question

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is, do they believe if an independent Scotland has not,

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applying for an organisation like this seems not to be logical. If

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the SNP does accept nuclear deterrence as a general principle,

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a second question is, why would an independent separatist Scotland

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force the UK deterrent out of Faslane, making it more difficult

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for the UK to contribute to the nuclear alliance? So the alliance

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believes it needs that deterrent, it could be removed from Scotland

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or forced out, could there be a backlash from the United States?

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think yes, because extending the nuclear umbrella by the United

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States and the UK over the alliance requires that that our eyes to some

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of the risk sharing and they should be no free good here -- that allies.

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But an income -- but a -- but an independent Scotland would say, we

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off-line with a nuclear umbrella but we are not taking part in that

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risk or burden and we will complicate the deterrent by

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expelling it from Faslane. But Alex Salmond pointed out we could have

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American bases on Scottish soil and if they only had conventional

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weapons, that would be West and burden-sharing, would the Americans

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to accept that? -- a whisker? is interesting, but given the

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current budgetary circumstances we faced, there would be no

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establishing American bases in Scotland or anywhere else at this

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time, so it is an empty offer a. theoretically, if there was a base

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in Scotland, we believe nuclear weapons have been removed, cut the

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Americans dictate what kind of weapons they could store? -- Could

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the Americans. That would have to be worked out by the USA and the

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Scottish government. The Independent Scottish government, if

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that were to exist. BUSA cannot introduce nuclear weapons without

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the consent of the host country -- and the USA. That brings us to the

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issue of submarines on the West Coast of Scotland. The Americans

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would not have to say if there was a nuclear missile on board, so if

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you are part of NATO, you could have a nuclear missile on Scottish

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territory and not know about it. do not think that is true. The

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ballistic nuclear -- the ballistic missile submarines are distinct

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warships and they do have nuclear missiles, so if an American nuclear

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missile submarine came up the River Clyde, one would have to issue it

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was carrying weapons. It is US policy either to confirm or deny

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the presence, but it would be obvious what a nuclear missile

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submarine would be carrying. What the Americans see that as an

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acceptable part of risk and burden- sharing? I do not think so because

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expelling the force, the Royal Navy, from the River Clyde, makes

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Britain's role in protecting the alliance with its own nuclear

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deterrent much more difficult and it complicate the situation where

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the United Kingdom currently supplies part of the NATO nuclear

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deterrent. Last week, the NATO generally -- Secretary General

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congratulated the Royal Navy -- the Royal Navy on this latest deterrent

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patrol, saying it was an important contribution to NATO's defence and

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expelling it from the River Clyde would complicate the ability of the

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UK to have that deterrent capability to protect the lines

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that Scotland says it would like to join. -- the alliance. More weight

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and Denmark have banned nuclear weapons, but they are key members

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of the alliance, so how do you say the SNP's position is not logical,

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but we have countries like Norway Expelling will do this for us from

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the Clyde would expel the status quo. Others tried to expel a

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nuclear weapons from Germany, a US nuclear weapons, and he was rounded

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damage by the United States and NATO as saying that they were

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shirking responsibility that they had assumed a long time ago, so it

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is about today and not what was decided decades ago. Thank you.

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Thank you for joining s from Washington DC. Thank you. With us

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to talk about their parties' policies, we have Labour's Jim

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Murphy and in Moray, the SNP's Angus Robertson.

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Anger is, what you are proposing is not to a poll, remaining free of

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nuclear weapons as Mr Salmond proposed this week, Mr Miller said

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that this is illogical. He has the right to that point of view, but it

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does not square the facts that Norway and Denmark are not

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currently member-states of the NATO had to not have nuclear weapons on

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their soil and have a policy that they do not want to have them on

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their soil, and we need to look at the departure of nuclear-weapons

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from Greece and Canada, so it is entirely consistent about wanting

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to work together with neighbours and allies and we would do that as

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a conventionally armed country, just as the overwhelming numbers of

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Salem Fayyad Estates. And later in the East: is to work against

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nuclear disarmament and Scotland can play its part in that.

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-- NATO is for working against. Franklin Miller said that Norway

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and Denmark had a consistent position, you were consistently

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upsetting the applecart with this position, he said when it comes

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down to it, you're not playing your part in the risk and burden-

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sharing? I just mentioned the fact that both Canada and Greece which

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had tactical nuclear weapons had them removed. That with the change

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of the status quo. It was possible for them, it would be possible for

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us. Scotland is in a very important geographical position in northern

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Europe, the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic to the West, we need

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to have proportional forces. The UK does not provide that in Scotland

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at the moment, there is they owe conventional naval craft, there is

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no maritime patrol craft. That is what neighbouring countries want us

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to do, to remain within the NATO and work than a conventional basis.

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It is important to work within NATO and our neighbours and friends.

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Murphy, it is ironic that what the SNP is proposing is what a lot of

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Labour people would like to see, a nuclear free Scotland but retaining

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the safety of the NATO umbrella. The more we discuss this, the more

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that we listen to Mr Miller in Washington, it is clear that the

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SNP have not done their homework. We're trying to get out of a

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military alliance in the UK and not meet the rules of the largest

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military alliance which is NATO. This idea that there will be a

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quick fix and an independent Scotland can rejoin NATO is funds

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of will. On the rules, the facts are clear. You do not have to have

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nuclear weapons on your soil, you have to have in principle and

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practice, the collective security of the nuclear umbrella which the

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SNP is playing with words, but they do not sign up to. The second is

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about money, you have to pay the bills. Even the creator budget they

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have come up with which nobody accepts, it doesn't meet the NATO

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threshold. They will be knocking on a closed door if they are

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independent, knocking on the doors of teenagers saying we will not

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sign up the rules, he does not make sense. Not signing up to the rules?

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I am delighted, we can read the transcript that he has accepted

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that NATO member states do not have to host nuclear weapons. I am

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surprised that is news to you. you can let me finish, thank you,

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and if you look at the SNP budget for Defence and Security, 1.7 % of

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GDP is the European NATO average. We have looked at what neighbours,

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allies and friends do and we have worked out that we need to focus

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efforts on maritime conventional defence, are due a strategic

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position suggests this is the right thing to do. 80 % of people in

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Scotland Stuart wants nuclear weapons, so Jim Murphy can choose

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to disregard the opinions of the Scottish people. I am on the side

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of the majority of the people of Scotland to want rid of Trident to

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work with neighbours and friends and that is the way to go. He duet

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had to read by transcript, anyone watching this programme will know

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that NATO did not want bigger weapons. We enjoy comparing

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Scotland with Norway. Enure fanciful budget of �2.5 billion,

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Norway's spends about 4.5 on its defence. Let's compare like with

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like. It makes no sense to leave the UK military, come out of the

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British Army, the Royal Navy, the Royal Air Force. It makes sense

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that we share that responsibility on these islands and the SNP knows

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that their arguments doesn't add up in terms of leaving the UK military

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and they are looking for another alliance. The only other allies to

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stop fulfil the rules of criteria. They have not done their homework.

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Mr Robertson, why can you not to be like Ireland and not be a NATO

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member, not to join NATO? For the reasons I about light, we are in a

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specific strategic geographical position and we need to live up to

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our responsibilities for neighbours, allies and regions and dangerous

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stability and providing for the appropriate commercial defence. We

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had been looking at the Danish model and at 1.7 % of budgets and

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we could provide a very comparative offering no to that with that NATO

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alive. Of these countries did not live up to their responsibility,

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they would be calling for their expulsion, but they are not, they

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accept what they do working with neighbours and allies and that is

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what Scotland will do, it is just a shame about Jim Murphy does regards

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that use of the majority of people of Scotland to do that once a

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nuclear weapons in our country. would you define nuclear free,

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because if you have got its submarines are sailing up the River

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Clyde, you do not know what will be on board, the American submarine

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will lost any what is on board, there could be a nuclear missile

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coming in to Scotland and you have a nice tea with their policy? By --

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and you have an anti-nuclear policy. It is entirely workable policy we

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should not confuse two things. There is a rite of passage on the

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conventional law of the sea and the United Nations and there is the

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agreement that you ask that they do not bring a nuclear-armed vessels

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into the port. That is how it works with your weight, I June Rudd see

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why it cannot work with Scotland. - - I do not see why it cannot work.

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In the Sunday Herald's today, it was said Scotland B nuclear free is

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unlikely to be a serious impediment to NATO membership. Wigan have the

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conversation unilateralism first as a multilateralism. World events

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show that decisions will be taken in the next few years and the

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decision on the defence will sort us out for decades to come. You can

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give up a nuclear weapons, by yourself, if you can with certainty

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predict what the next 50 years were provided terms of world events.

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Nobody knows what it will look like in the next 50 years, and it is

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irresponsible to be unilateralist. The UK, the Chinese, the Russians,

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the French, all of those countries together, lets negotiated get rid

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of weapons that way. But with North Korea, Iran, tried to get to

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nuclear-weapons, a nuclear weapons arms race in beat Middle-East, it

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makes no sense Forester give up their nuclear capability. It is a

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mystery as to what Labour actually want. The New Statesman called the

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silence from July Lamont deafening. What does she want? The Labour

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Party, all of us, we are nutty unilateralist party. We do not

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believe in unilaterally giving up nuclear. It defends his reserve to

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the House of Commons along with many important issues. Invite us

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all on to the programme, the Labour Party, we believe in nuclear

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disarmament in a difficult world that is volatile, with all of these

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countries have tried to acquire a capability. The idea of the UK

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giving up this capability does not make much sense, but the

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conversation, we asked everyone, the more questions you ask, be

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fewer answers you get. Why would you give up membership of the

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fourth largest military in the world in terms of defence spending?

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Despite the cuts come up why would you give up the most capable

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European nation for Defence, why throw that all away on an offer at

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a risk and a one-way bet that they have their answers, on why he would

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leave the British Army, the Royal Navy and everything behind. Making

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that point about to one LUNT, but Mr Murphy saying that the Labour

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Party are not in favour of unilateral disarmament. That will

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come to a lot of disappointments to people in the Labour Party who wish

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that it was. They endorse their position that they would prefer to

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get rid of nuclear-weapons. We do not even in Scotland let's use

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their money for conventional defence. Week in spent or a

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conventional defence with independence less than in the UK at

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get rid of nuclear-weapons which is a good deal to me. On rescanned

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burden-sharing, Mr Salmond said that he was keen to see American

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bases here, but John well so, the SNP MSP has spoken out about this

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move, say because lots of attack in Syria or hold with the weapons. --

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John Wilson. He has been consistent with his position in conference

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last year when he opposed the policy I put to him. It said we

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were in favour of base sharing its logistics training, so it is up to

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a sovereign Scottish government to make the appropriate arrangements

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if that is ever proposed, but the SNP is in favour of this, the

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conference has passed his policy. Far Riley, Jim Murphy, we are

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speaking about the Labour position on Trident, a very prominent

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Belaubre of your party, Lord Brown, a former Defence Secretary, he is

:00:26.:00:32.

sceptical about this too. He is looking to see if we can maintain a

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military and spilt your capability at a lower cost which is sensible

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to look at. In a complicated world of many powerful nations at stages

:00:43.:00:46.

countries, it takes more than passing a resolution at a

:00:46.:00:51.

conference to create a reality. The fact that you cannot walk into two

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as it would be needed state, Paul Ince took five years. -- walked

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into NATO as an independent state. We are heading to London for the

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news, see you in a moment. The London School of Economics has

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accused the BBC of endangering its dubious by sending ecru with a bump

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to the North Korea had to film an undercover documentary. The London

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School said that they were not old enough to give informed consent and

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it could give serious damage to the school of for academic integrity.

:01:32.:01:36.

The BBC refutes this and says the programme will go ahead.

:01:36.:01:41.

The Panorama team fold under cover for eight days last month,

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travelling on a state organised tour, but the LSE claims that by

:01:46.:01:51.

posing as students, they put the entire group in danger. The LSE has

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accused the BBC of using lies and deception from the outset. It says

:01:55.:02:00.

it had no prior knowledge of this trip and about the BBC is unwilling

:02:00.:02:05.

to take responsibility for endangering its students. The BBC

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says the students were told twice a day journalist would be travelling

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with thermal, and what about the risk of arrest and detention. But

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the journalist John Sweeney acknowledges that they were not

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told that there was an undercover teams of three phoning a high-

:02:21.:02:28.

profile documentary. We told them enough but not enough to put them

:02:28.:02:31.

in parallel something went bad. Nothing went bad, we got away with

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it. It was preposterous, but the students helped us and the majority

:02:36.:02:42.

of students are very happy for this to go ahead. As an LSE graduate I

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find it extraordinary that an institution that believes in free

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thought should call for a documentary not to be aired.

:02:51.:03:01.
:03:01.:03:08.

has refused the request to withdraw The US Secretary of State, John

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Kerry, is visiting Tokyo in his latest attempt to build pressure on

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North Korea. As Mr Kerry arrived, Japan said the two countries should

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send a strong message to North Korea to give up its nuclear

:03:17.:03:19.

weapons programmes. Anti-missile systems have been stationed around

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Tokyo, in anticipation of a North Korean missile launch.

:03:22.:03:24.

Details have been published of the funeral service for Lady Thatcher,

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to be held at St Paul's Cathedral on Wednesday. As Lady Thatcher

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requested, the service will include music by English composers, and

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will contain some of her favourite hymns, reflecting both her

:03:33.:03:43.
:03:43.:03:44.

patriotism and her upbringing as a Methodist.

:03:44.:03:49.

Firefighters have managed to contain life by it -- a fire at a

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zoo in west London. The fire started in the tropical house,

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firefighters rescued two crocodiles and cannot have but some animals

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and cannot have but some animals and cannot have but some animals

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:04:13.:04:17.

have died. -- and an otter. That is all for now.

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Good afternoon. Firefighters have been tackling a blaze at a zoo in

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West Lothian. The fire is now thought to be under control, but

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the number of animals killed is still being assessed. Our reporter,

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Catriona Renton, is there. You can see the boat out house

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behind me, all the animals in the reptile house perished. A couple of

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crocodiles outside have been rescued, the moment it is not clear

:04:39.:04:45.

how many animals have died. -- at the moment. The zoo keeper is

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trying to see if any animals are still hiding. The me a cats

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chocolate spike and they have a tunnel to get outside. -- meercats.

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The reason for the fire is not yet known and the owners are devastated

:05:05.:05:10.

by what has happened. The Scottish Parliament is to

:05:10.:05:12.

debate Baroness Thatcher's legacy, on the day of her funeral. The

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joint Green-Independent group have set aside their allotted time at

:05:15.:05:17.

Holyrood for the debate. The Scottish Conservatives have

:05:17.:05:27.
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criticised the timing, saying it is offensive. Pine for the weather now.

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It will stay windy, a strong southerly wind, they should be some

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bright weather coming through and there could be highs of 15 a 16

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degrees. In the sunshine, it will be quite pleasant. The risk of

:05:53.:06:03.
:06:03.:06:07.

severe gales across the Hebrides. At times this week, it has felt

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like being back in the 1980s. The leadership skills, policies and the

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legacy of Margaret Thatcher have all been fiercely debated. The

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confrontations will continue this week. Scottish Conservatives are

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angry the Greens are planning to hold a Holyrood debate on the Iron

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Lady the same day as her funeral. But what impact did living through

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the '80s have on people's day-to- day lives? Craig Hutchison has been

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talking to some of Thatcher's Children. Him in we, in Scotland, -

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- a week. This Scottish miracle did not

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happen by accident. A Margaret Thatcher wanted a harmonious

:06:40.:06:44.

relationship with Scotland but there was all too often discord --

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Margaret Thatcher. This mining museum is all that is left here,

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Janet is the widow of a minor and the daughter of a minor. -- miner.

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Broke and homes, families broken up, brothers and sisters that do not

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speak to each other. My youngest is seven and she realises now what we

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went through. But some people like that Director of the National

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Mining Museum in Scotland took inspiration from Margaret Thatcher.

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Be in born into a world where she was in power was incredibly

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significant because as a woman, there were no barriers, I could

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achieve what I wanted and it was down to hard work. She had an

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impressive work ethic and that is one of her greatest legacies.

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Thatcher is renowned for privatising several state owned

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industries and revolutionising the financial sector, including here in

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Scotland. In 1966, Brian Johnson started work for an investment fund

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management firm in Edinburgh and he remains with them today.

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privatisation introduced a new range of people into the market --

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privatisation. A lot of money came into the market from overseas

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investors, so the game changed from a cosy club into an international

:08:18.:08:23.

financial operation. She was transformational not just personal

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loan -- not just personally but to the country, and without her, I do

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not know what would have happened. Celebrations in September 1977,

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after the devolution referendum. The initial impact when she came

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into power or she said there would be no constitutional change in

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Scotland and I was disappointed by that. I saw what she was doing to

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heavy industry, she was decimating it and putting people on the dole

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and cutting back on social policy, I thought, this is not a Scot and I

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want to the event and we have to control this woman and not just

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take it. This coming week will be a chance to mourn a political icon

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for some, but the death of Margaret that has only opened up winced for

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others. We will visit the cemetery and the miners' Museum and be

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together, that is the week we will spend Wednesday, are not watching

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the television. -- is -- that is the way that.

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We have two guests in our Edinburgh studio. The first is Jim Gallagher.

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Jim is a research fellow at Nuffield College in Oxford. He has

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also advised the UK government on devolution strategy and was closely

:09:38.:09:41.

involved in the Calman Commission. His new book, Scotland's Choices,

:09:41.:09:44.

is due out next week. And we also have another writer and former

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Scottish Conservative MSP, Brian Monteith. He is also a PR

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consultant and policy director for Thinkscotland.org.

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Your book, it is out this week are not looking ahead to the referendum.

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We have had all week that Margaret Thatcher was the midwife of the

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Scottish Parliament and perhaps of independence, depending how the

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referendum goes. My personal view is that it probably would have

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happened anyway, some kind of democratic control over Scottish

:10:18.:10:25.

institutions in Scotland, but there is no doubt that Margaret Thatcher

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provided the political opportunity for many to see that devolution was

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the answer. You have advised Scottish governments, how much of

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her policies have filtered through today? Ken Clarke was speaking this

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week that the consensus now is of a market economy with a social

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conscience. There is no doubt she shifted to UK political discourse

:10:50.:10:54.

to the right and the big acknowledgement of that was Tony

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Blair in 1997 saying that there were things a new Labour government

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would bring the Indian on the back of the Thatcher era. There were

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things that were not going to change, notably all the

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privatisations, and that has set a rebalancing of the UK government.

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Thatcher's legacy, I suppose it depended if you lived in Balzers

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and all West Lothian? A do not think that is true. -- in Basildon.

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The problem for the Conservatives was that in regard to England, it

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came later in Scotland, so there were difficulties to get any

:11:38.:11:44.

electoral bounced from it. But she had over 700,000 Scottish people

:11:44.:11:49.

voting for her in predilections. She laughed about 25% of the

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Scottish electorate -- and she laughed. The idea she ruined the

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Conservative Party in Scotland is a myth. Many people had a council

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house they rented and that they were able to buy. So Scottish

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people embraced many of her policies but they found it

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difficult to embrace the lady herself. The debate this week has

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often been that change was needed and perhaps was coming, did the de-

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industrialisation have to be so rapid with nothing to replace a

:12:21.:12:27.

lost industries? Martin a miss said she was as a necessary Prime

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Minister and that is correct. Other prime ministers had avoided hard

:12:34.:12:38.

choices in the 1970s and because Scotland was so desperately reliant

:12:38.:12:44.

on heavy industry, there was so much more to do. So we needed more

:12:44.:12:47.

Thatcherism, we needed Scottish privatisations and more

:12:47.:12:53.

deregulation, and there was in resistance to that even in the

:12:53.:12:57.

Scottish Conservative Party and that made it difficult. The truth

:12:57.:13:02.

is that what the Scottish economy needed was Margaret Thatcher to

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beat the Scottish Secretary of State, but she had her hands tied

:13:05.:13:12.

with more at -- to be. The SNP and Thatcher pursuing policies such as

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low corporation tax, could we have independence, but in the style of

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Bacher? Plenty of people in the SNP are on the right. -- in the style

:13:22.:13:28.

of Margaret Thatcher. The SNP would say it is a left-of-centre party.

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But much of her inheritance has take -- has been taken up by the

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