by the Government in 1952. It was stored offshore on a ship that had been converted into a laboratory. It’s purpose? The top-secret development of biological weapons. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001gn60/plaigh-air-bord
Professor John Robertson OBA
Thanks to Dottie for alerting me to this.
BBC Alba this morning, re-broadcasting their 2023 documentary Plaigh air Bord (Plagues on Board), shocked Dottie and me.
We all know about these less discussed benefits of the Union, such as Scotland’s highest cancer rates in the UK and in Europe, upwind and upstream of the Sellafield nuclear processing plant, the ‘most toxic site in Europe‘, carefully positioned as far from London as possible within England, and the nuclear subs on the Clyde now dumping far more radioactive waste. We might also know about the long-term weapons dumping in Beaufort’s Dyke in the Irish Channel between South-West Scotland and Northern Ireland and the Anthrax testing on Gruinard during World War II, but I’m guessing few of us knew of the Bubonic and other plagues testing in the early 1950s off the Island of Lewis.
The BBC Alba documentary opens with a cadaverous researcher telling us, in that lovely Oxbridge ehxent, how they did the experiments. I haven’t seen his report but I’m guessing it does not mention the weans swimming near the ship nor the fishing boat ‘accidentally‘ sprayed with bubonic plague.
The BBC Alba folk, of course, are less indignant than you and I might be, had we lived there at the time. I wonder why they didn’t do a quick vox pop in the streets of Stornoway like they did yesterday in Brodick after the 24 hour delay in the MV Glen Sannox repairs?
For more on the most toxic site in Europe, see:
For more on the nuclear waste dumping in the Clyde:
For more on the weapons dumping in Beaufort’s Dyke:
Talking-up Scotland 'Albatraz' 
Lets not forget Donreay where they are still cleaning up the waste from there but that is ok its only far from England.
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Not sure they are still cleaning it up…Britnat gov might have abandoned that now?
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Yes and Gruinard Island is uninhabitable for humans for, well forever really. ScotLAND and coast has been used, abused and exploited by the country next door. Time to put a stop to that.
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the UKgovt were at one time going to detonate a nuclear bomb off the north coast of Scotland, you know, just to see what happened. The population of the north of Scotland were obviously not important. They were finally persuaded not to go ahead with it, but to even consider it? That is how little Scottish lives are worth to the UKgovt.
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