It’s good to chalk: Street campaign over SNP’s possible Nato U-turn

Published on 05/10/2012 01:08

Anti-Nato campaigners have protested outside Holyrood as the SNP prepares to vote on a reversal of its opposition to membership of the organisation.

Members of the No to Nato Scotland Coalition yesterday drew thousands of chalk figures on the pavement from the SNP headquarters, just off Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, to the Scottish Parliament. The group said the figures represent the estimated 20,000 civilians and 4,000 troops killed in conflicts involving Nato. SNP defence spokesman Angus Robertson confirmed his party’s position that an independent Scotland’s continuing membership of the nuclear-armed alliance would be “on the condition of an agreement that Scotland will not host nuclear weapons”.