Scrap Trident. A kind of fox-hunting everyone could support.
Posted by: Alan Gibbons in Uncategorized
Isn’t it fun watching the Condem Alliance fighting like ferrets in a sack over Trident? They are squabbling over whether the £20 billion cost of the current plans should be taken from the Ministry of Defence budget or supplied by central Government.
Fox won’t even agree to have the programme scaled back from four to three submarines.
He says: “At current levels of technology, it is very hard to manage a continuous deterrent with three submarines rather than four.”
Easy for me!
Meanwhile former Lib Dem leader Sir Menzies Campbell has called for the weapon system to be included in a forthcoming review of defence spending. In this case it could be cut back.
He says: “How can you possibly take on such a large financial commitment as Trident without considering the military and political implications?
“If fierce cuts are to be made in Britain’s conventional forces, surely we have to consider whether replacing Trident can be justified.”
A much better policy would be to abolish Trident completely and put the entire cost, the immediate £20billion and the eventual £97billion into life-enhancing services rather than extermination sectors of the State.
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