£250m Cash Injection for Nukes Branded 'Gimmick' as Ian Murray Makes Scotland Trip

£250m cash injection for nukes branded 'gimmick' as Ian Murray makes Scotland trip

A £250 million cash injection for British nuclear weapons housed in Scotland has been branded a “gimmick”.

NUKES: Funding for military gimmicks insult to the people of Scotland

A new £250 million investment from the UK Government into the Faslane nuclear weapons base is an ‘insult’ to local families in poverty, says the area’s Scottish Greens MSP Ross Greer. The United Kingdom’s nuclear weapons are housed on the River Clyde at HMNB Clyde, encompassing the Faslane and Coulport sites only 20 miles from Glasgow. In recent years, the cost for these weapons of mass slaughter has skyrocketed, with a report in 2023 uncovering…