In the latest addition to our Cut Trident video wall, comedian and impressionist extraordinaire Alistair McGowan muses on alternative ways to spend the £97bn that the government is currently planning to blow on new nuclear weapons.
Whilst saving Chester City FC and gagging Jeremy Clarkson are at the top of his personal list, Alistair reels off a plethora of projects on which the money could better be spent, including regenerating our inner cities; reviving sea-side towns; or using it to help countries already affected by climate change.
Basically, though, our options boil down to this: we can either spend the money making this country and this world a far better place to live in, or we can spend it on threatening the world with entire destruction at the push of a button.
Tough choice, eh? You can see why our politicians have such a hard time working out the right thing to do (an honourable exception being Lib-Dem leader Nick Clegg, of course, whose determination to cut Trident to save services proved very popular with the audience in last night's inaugural party leaders' debate)...
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Visit our video wall and watch other suggestions about how to put £97bn to good use without anihilating the planet. If you've got a good (or funny) idea, why not upload a video yourself? We'd love to hear from you.
With an election in the offing, it's one of those rare moments when you can be sure that politicians will be listening attentively to your opinions. Email all your party candidates at once and ask them where they stand on wasting a fortune on new nuclear weapons in the middle of a recession?
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