Sixty fighter jets, fully armed with rockets, and light machine guns, are fuelled up and ready to carry out a well planned attack on the only oil refinery in Scotland.

The frightened workers will be preparing for this act of aggression, and the RAF fighters at Lossiemouth, are on red alert, ready to intercept this airborne armada.

If the attack is successful, there will be no more Grangemouth, nor the surrounding towns and villages. The foreign power, or powers, who are intent on this devastating attack, were nearer than you think.

Fortunately all this carnage was only in a dream, or a nightmare, which I had the other night. But was it just fantasy, and outwith the realms of reality?

Reading the papers at the weekend I realised that my nightmare may not be so far fetched. A date is even supplied as to when this blatant attack on Scotland's economic future will take place.

Hundreds of workers, in highly skilled jobs. are to be sacrificed on the altar of unionists and their bad planning. Bad for Scotland, but not for England's nearest refinery, which can't wait to receive the first shipment.

Oil will be required, as always: not as a fuel, but a lubricant for every piece of moving engineering equipment. Plastics and medicinal extracts are obtained, even vodka, and a myriad of by-products are extracted from oil. That's another few hundred sub-vendors’ jobs going to the wall.

Look at the bill for unemployment benefit that will never justify this plant’s closure. Even if the plant was running at a small loss, it's an essential link in the chain of production.

But the plant is not running at a loss. Thanks to its excellent workforce it shows millions of pounds of profit, and has done in previous years. Closure was tried a few years back and was shelved after the No vote narrowly won. Now that there is a strong possibility of independence our neighbours will always try to destabilise our future.

If only the SNP Government had the power to nationalise the plant and compensate the fat cats at the root of its closure. They did so with Prestwick Airport: they saved it for the nation, and it is still running.

The British state gets £150, and more, per second from Scottish oil. Now they want to double that at the expense of hundreds of jobs, not to mention the possible domino effect from Grangemouth’s closure. Remember what happened to the coal miners and their families.

Wake up, Scotland: don’t let this industrial sabotage become my nightmare, and yours as well. Keep Grangemouth open.

Iain Ramsay, Greenock