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2024-03-05 12:47:06 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 6230F12399FA8AF7F49607F88EB0FEA10290A14623A9F35FD4EDB4482D7EC9EE
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Original Note:
Trident costs £3bn/annually. Scotland's share of that is abt £300m which is a abt 1.5% of Scotland's GDP (£210m). So the "saving" would not be "billions". https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68357294 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Scotland Also if Scotland was in NATO it would have to spend 2% of GDP (£400m) on defence. So there's no/little saving.
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