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Trident
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I've got BBC News on at the moment and JC is talking about Trident. I went through the Cuba crisis and the reason that the Russians didn't take over the West was because we had the nuclear deterrent. I can't understand the logic that says we should get rid of Trident. If we don't have a n/d aren't we at risk from any tin pot dictator who takes it into his head to invade us?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The issue is not that Russia, or North Korea, or anyone else, would invade the UK or 'be in Britain in a trice' but rather that a leader would seek to blackmail or coerce the country with the threat of nuclear missile deployment. Of course the UK could give up its independent deterrent and our NATO membership would in theory protect us. But as I said elsewhere, does it make sense to give up the capability and the clout it gives us internationally?
MP's have voted to back UK's Trident nuclear weapons system.
http:// www.bbc .co.uk/ news/uk -politi cs-3683 0923
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Ahh the royal "we" being invoked, the "we" in this case Maggiebee is the 50% of the Scottish electorate who put the 57 MPs in Westminster the other 50% may or may not believe that we should or shouldn't have Nuclear weapons, that portion fell to 46.5%. That "we" doesn't represent my views (no longer living in Scotland, so doesn't really matter) or the views of 75% of my family.
All bar one Scottish MP voted no, of course they did, SNP prospective candidates don't get selected if they don't follow the party line on disarmament or anything else for that matter.
I also can't wait to see how Queen Nicola of Dregged-up explains away the near 7000 jobs that will disappear at Faslane and the destruction of the economy around Helensburgh and Dumbartonshire if they pull out of Faslane??
This is the fun part of lefty politics at the moment, democracy is only democracy as long as it suits your aims.
All bar one Scottish MP voted no, of course they did, SNP prospective candidates don't get selected if they don't follow the party line on disarmament or anything else for that matter.
I also can't wait to see how Queen Nicola of Dregged-up explains away the near 7000 jobs that will disappear at Faslane and the destruction of the economy around Helensburgh and Dumbartonshire if they pull out of Faslane??
This is the fun part of lefty politics at the moment, democracy is only democracy as long as it suits your aims.