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Labour wants to scrap trident?

DoublemeDoubleme Member Posts: 2,147
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I believe this likely to be nonsense since the sources for this are the daily mail and the tory propaganda machine on facebook.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12284535/More-dozen-members-Labours-bench-call-Britain-scrap-nuclear-deterrent.html

I am tired and am going to go back to sleep now people feel free to save me the time by posting the debunk to this etc.
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  • EssexphilEssexphil Member Posts: 8,774
    Some Members within the Labour Party want to scrap Trident.

    Various reasons. It costs a lot of money. It is 40-odd years old. It is not British-it is American. We could never ever use it without permission of the USA.

    Despite the above, it remains broadly popular with voters. And the current/official Labour position is to keep it. Many of the dissenters are the sidelined hard left, still dreaming that Corbyn was in any way relevant.

    Should it go? IMHO, probably. Is it going any time soon? No. Simply because both major Parties are in favour of retaining it.

    Is this a case of the Daily Mail's "Project Fear"? Of course.
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  • green_beergreen_beer Member Posts: 1,936
    ban the bomb! save the whales!


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  • DoublemeDoubleme Member Posts: 2,147
    I mean I think we do need the nuclear deterrent, Trump showed us that Nato is not a forever Guarantee and Russia have shown us colonialism not over yet. I am far from an expert on what we currently have, however I do think we need some Nuclear deterrent. Trump still has a reasonable chance of getting in and if he does get in there is a reasonable chance he attempts to disband Nato. and if he does that there is a small chance he is successful. without US backing and Nuclear weapons Russia could come at us.

    However whether trident specifically should exist I do not know because I do not know what other nuclear capabilities we have if any etc.
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