A bit unsure how to approach this subject, but is it wise to deliver strategic assets like Naval Dockyards into private hands?
Are the new owners USA, Iranian, Emirates...or even (with money) Russian.
In the not too distant past we had Rosyth, Chatham, Portsmouth and Plymouth.
In the USA the Dockyards are run by the navy for the navy. In this country the actual running of the "yard" was (is) controlled by a civil servant (a senior Supply and Transport Officer) whose brief was to administer the dockyard, and the ships who used "his" facilities were more of an encumberance than a "reason for his being there".
Chatham has gone. Now an amusement park,....except perhaps for the "rope walk".
Rosyth, Faslane and other depots may well be "owned" privately....but with what allegiance?
I shudder to think of possible consequences. Thank goodness I am getting old and do not have to deal with the ramifications of this political stupidity.