You appear to have taken my 'hostage' comment as involving seizing the base. Quite the opposte.
Rather making use of the base difficult to impossible through peaceful non violent means. That is also a 'hostage' scenario. There is a situation of all eggs in one basket being hostage to fortune.
The UK nuclear weapons travel by lorry from England to Scotland and from Scotland to England regularly. Scotland has a police force. The police can stop lorries.
See where this is going...
Scotland has roads departments. Roads departments close roads and dig them up all the time. There are only two road entrances into the nuclear weapons store.
See where this is going...
Ah, you may say, Move them by sea then. That they have never been moved by sea in the past but instead rely on regular road convoys may be an indication of the difficulty that solution would entail.
As for peaceful protest I don't recall threats of 'long jail time' or charges of 'treason' being effective at the Greenham Common Peace Camp or for that matter at the Faslane Peace Camp.
The position is the other way round, it is the stated intent of the SNP that an independent Scotland would require the removal of
RNAD Coulport (or to be precise, its nuclear warhead contents).
Your comment shows you know nothing about the situation. I'd advise you read the article linked below in full.
How do you propose to move a mountain, a deep water port and its associated infrastructre worth £billions?
As an indication of the scale of the facilities, the Trident Works Programme at Faslane and Coulport took 13 years and cost around £1.9 billion (at 1994 prices), the second most expensive works project in the UK after the Channel Tunnel.
Even from this cursory examination of Scottish facilities, it is obvious that replicating them in England would be exceptionally expensive. Although some equipment could be removed for transporting it is clear that huge investment has literally gone into the ground, tunnels, roads, jettys and buildings that can’t be moved.
A very optimistic estimate made by RUSI in 2014 that extrapolated historical costs put the relocation figure (using Devonport) around £4Bn. In the much more regulated environment of the 2020s, such a project would surely run into the £10s of billions.
And more critically perhaps, move it to where? There are no viable alternative sites.
The MoD has already examined alternative sites and concluded that they all have very serious drawbacks leading to the conclusion
It is hard not to conclude that if an independent Scotland will not allow nuclear weapons to remain on its soil this would probably signal the end of the British nuclear deterrent.
Why relocating Trident away from Scotland is virtually impossible | Save the Royal Navy
Not a lot of jobs involved even if it was completely closed. Just 520 civilian jobs depend on Trident and the associated nuclear weapons store at Coulport.
Fact Check: How many jobs depend on Faslane?
Ministry of Defence reveals just 520 Faslane jobs depend on Trident | Nuclear Information Service
Labour and Tories under fire for inflating Trident job losses