The SNP and Scottish Labour have no credible plans for keeping jobs on the Clyde if the deterrent was scrapped, according to local Conservative candidate Jamie Greene.
Challenging the First Minister in Parliament, Ruth Davidson last week said that she backed new investment in Britain's successor to Trident unveiled by Defence Secretary Michael Fallon.
In the heated debate, Nicola Sturgeon refused to accept that the removal of the nuclear deterrent would bring an end to thousands of jobs on the Clyde.
It came after local West of Scotland Labour MSP Jackie Baillie weighed in on the debate and admitted that "no-one has come up with a credible plan to replace those jobs."
Renewal is opposed by the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, while Scottish Labour voted to scrap the deterrent at its party conference last November
The UK Government recently highlighted their on-going commitment to jobs on the Clyde when defence secretary Michael Fallon announced £640m extra funding for Trident.
Cunninghame North candidate and Scottish Conservative, Jamie Greene, said that "It now appears Nicola Sturgeon is joining the Corbyn consensus by agreeing with the fallacy that you can get rid of Trident but keep 11,000 jobs on the Clyde. It not only affects jobs in Argyll and Bute but across the area, in Ayrshire, Inverclyde, Clydebank and Dumbarton. Hundreds, if not thousands of direct and indirect jobs would go and not shred of policy from the SNP on how those communities would survive thereafter.
We even have one of Scottish Labour's senior politicians admitting there is no credible plan to keep jobs. If the subs go, then the jobs go too. I was last week at Hunterston nuclear power station where I learned that anti-nuclear supporters often don’t even know the difference between nuclear reactive power and nuclear defence systems. ”
He added “The SNP's stance against Trident shows it will always put separation before anything else and with Labour arguing amongst themselves over the policy, the Scottish Conservatives are the only party sticking up for the defence of our island and those highly skilled workers and their families."