Labour’s Adam Ingram today focused on SNP plans to cut defence jobs in an independent Scotland.
Launching a poster in Edinburgh this morning highlighting the SNP job cut plans, Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram said:
“The SNP would be bad news for defence jobs in Scotland. They are a direct threat to the 26000 workers who are employed by the MoD directly or working directly on defence equipment contracts.”
“The SNP policy would be a hammer blow to Scottish modern manufacturing jobs, from ship yards to research at Universities. The SNP threaten to end Scotland’s historic involvement in an entire industrial sector. ”
Mr Ingram went on to say:
“An independent Scotland would be isolated and on the fringes of the international community, weakened by the separation of Scotland and the rest of the UK and out of NATO.”
“The SNP may be keen to hide their key policy of independence, but Labour will continue to ask the tough questions of the SNP they are trying to dodge.”
“As part of the Union, Scotland is stronger for being part of the UK. Scotland and the UK are stronger together, weaker apart.”
