39. Hansard
29 October 1983 Prime Ministers Questions, House of Commons, London UK
The Hon Mr Richard McNeil, MP (Labour, Glasgow Clydeside):
Will the Prime Minister please apologise to the House for her Governments reinstatement of the Highland Clearances in summarily expelling ordinary citizens of Ross and Cromarty to make way for an unnecessary project of the military-industrial complex.
Cheers and paper waving from the Opposition benches as PM rises.
The Right Hon Margaret Thatcher, MP (Conservative Finchley), PC, First Lord of the Treasury:
Although the Honourable member has NOT formed a question and even his request is far from clear, I will respond. I can only assume from the location he mentions, that he is referring to the Compulsory Purchase of 5 dilapidated properties on the edge of the hamlet of Inverasdale as part of the Road improvement towards Firemore Beach.
I can report that only three of these buildings were occupied and that all the inhabitants have been successfully relocated to new or fully modernised homes close to the Center of Inverasdale with generous compensation for the inconvenience.
I offer no apology for this work since the improved road will serve a major project that will provide extra local employment as well as being an important bulwark to the nation's defences.
In passing, I note that only last year, many voices from the Opposite side were raised complaining of the closure of Her Majesties Naval Base Lock Ewe after 60 years of Service citing the loss of employment.
They may wish to consider how irrational it is to for them to argue against the new combined Development and Engineering facility built mainly with Private funds but serving mostly Public purpose only a few miles across the waters.
PM sits
Laughter from the Government Benches and the Public Gallery, boos from the Opposition ranks
Mr Speaker (in a Welsh accent)
Order, Order
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Authors Notes:
Following the (relative) success of my single post to deal with the "Airship" strand of this web of fiction
I have decided to try the same method to attack other side issues that are distracting me.
Effectively this is the first of an occasional series set in the D-E ATL,
not always related to the main-line of the story, many just the landscape the story moves through
but also a few branch lines just for laughs
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FYI this particular update came about because I decided that my fictional DEN submarine facility needed an RL location and decided to make it Loch Ewe. When I developed that idea further I found that the geography and history of Loch Ewe were far from the (nearly) blank canvases I had imagined. I began to worry that I could not position the DEN there without ASB levels of modification.
However, I did find a suitable spot .. and incredibly the only retcon I had to make to any of the DEN updates was a single word near the beginning.
The Hon Mr Richard McNeil, MP (Labour, Glasgow Clydeside):
Will the Prime Minister please apologise to the House for her Governments reinstatement of the Highland Clearances in summarily expelling ordinary citizens of Ross and Cromarty to make way for an unnecessary project of the military-industrial complex.
Cheers and paper waving from the Opposition benches as PM rises.
The Right Hon Margaret Thatcher, MP (Conservative Finchley), PC, First Lord of the Treasury:
Although the Honourable member has NOT formed a question and even his request is far from clear, I will respond. I can only assume from the location he mentions, that he is referring to the Compulsory Purchase of 5 dilapidated properties on the edge of the hamlet of Inverasdale as part of the Road improvement towards Firemore Beach.
I can report that only three of these buildings were occupied and that all the inhabitants have been successfully relocated to new or fully modernised homes close to the Center of Inverasdale with generous compensation for the inconvenience.
I offer no apology for this work since the improved road will serve a major project that will provide extra local employment as well as being an important bulwark to the nation's defences.
In passing, I note that only last year, many voices from the Opposite side were raised complaining of the closure of Her Majesties Naval Base Lock Ewe after 60 years of Service citing the loss of employment.
They may wish to consider how irrational it is to for them to argue against the new combined Development and Engineering facility built mainly with Private funds but serving mostly Public purpose only a few miles across the waters.
PM sits
Laughter from the Government Benches and the Public Gallery, boos from the Opposition ranks
Mr Speaker (in a Welsh accent)
Order, Order
_______________________________________________
Authors Notes:
Following the (relative) success of my single post to deal with the "Airship" strand of this web of fiction
I have decided to try the same method to attack other side issues that are distracting me.
Effectively this is the first of an occasional series set in the D-E ATL,
not always related to the main-line of the story, many just the landscape the story moves through
but also a few branch lines just for laughs
_____________________________
FYI this particular update came about because I decided that my fictional DEN submarine facility needed an RL location and decided to make it Loch Ewe. When I developed that idea further I found that the geography and history of Loch Ewe were far from the (nearly) blank canvases I had imagined. I began to worry that I could not position the DEN there without ASB levels of modification.
However, I did find a suitable spot .. and incredibly the only retcon I had to make to any of the DEN updates was a single word near the beginning.
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