The GMB trade union attacked Scottish Labour's position, saying it was "based on Alice in Wonderland politics, promising pie-in-the-sky alternative jobs".
Gary Smith, head of the GMB in Scotland, retorted: "Thousands of Scottish jobs are dependent on the successor programme… These elected politicians agitating to sack our members are no longer bothering to promise pie-in-the-sky alternative jobs for workers who are vital to our national security.
If that is pie in the sky, the alternative is a war of civilisations and, with it, the collapse of liberal society.
Rupert Murdoch cleaned up after ITV Digital went into administration and, aided and abetted by the failure of cable to offer any serious alternative, Sky's dominance of digital pay TV is virtually unchallenged.
It's one of two biofuels the other is biodiesel which are being hyped to the skies as an alternative to fossil fuels, mainly oil.
The company, which provides a free-to-air alternative to Sky's pay-TV digital satellite service, claimed that 40% of Freesat customers are former Sky subscribers.
In recent years TalkTalk has expanded fast, with its aggressive phone/internet pricing and budget TV alternative to Sky, and now supplies 4m homes.
As an alternative to Sky+ and Virgin Media's Tivo box, YouView is a key part of BT and TalkTalk's campaign to secure more paying TV customers, but a new funding package is being negotiated and free-to-air broadcasters are looking to cut back their spend.
The episode concludes with Caroline being carried into the air by a mass of helium filled balloons at the wedding reception, although on the DVD boxset extras it shows an alternate ending where Guy and Mac grab onto Caroline's ankles and are taken to the sky with her; this alternative ending ends with Mac saying, "Caroline, there's something I've been meaning to tell you".
However, Team Sky do now need an alternative option and it is in the form of Australian Porte, who won Paris-Nice in 2013, rode strongly in the Tour that year as well as 2012 and is in good form coming to the event after a slow start to the season.
The Avanti, seen in memory amid palm trees beneath bright blue desert skies, offered a compelling alternative vision.
