Part of the Trident: we don't buy it tour blog 
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It's a funny old life being on a Greenpeace ship tour; one minute you're being boarded by police and put in solitary confinement for three days, the next you're being boarded by celebrities and working out the social niceties of how to address somebody with three titles before their name.
But listening to people as diverse as London Mayor Ken Livingstone, Annie Lennox, Bianca Jagger, Tony Robinson, Anita and Gordon Roddick and Major-General Sir Patrick Cordingly (who commanded the Desert Rats during the '91 Gulf War) speak out against the replacement of Trident was a powerful experience. Each of them has their own reasons for being opposed to spending £76 billion on a new nuclear weapons system for the UK, but all of them are united in saying no, and are urging MPs to do the same in the parliamentary vote next week.
Here's what they had to say: Here, London Mayor Ken Livingstone explains why the £76 billion it will cost to replace Trident would be better spent on tackling climate change:
And here "Time Team" presenter Tony Robinson explains why Trident renewal makes no sense in terms of national security, and actually undermines support for our armed services:
Below, human rights campaigner Bianca Jagger questions why the Trident vote is being rushed through now, when even hawkish US statesmen like Henry Kissenger oppose it:
