Lots to say about Trident, from "waste of money", to "haven't we got more worthwhile objectives?".
Surely any Government with sense could see that we have urgent and important needs in this country and the wider world, yet they plan to spend this enormous amount £95Billion on a project which offers us nothing except a more unstable world, an arms race, and the removal of funds from all sectors. Fortunately there is an opposition with a sensible altenative, well not one in the running.
So Democracy offers us a choice of two identical policies, which is exactly why it is important that the pressure groups get to work and attempt to persuade politicians and the public (not necessarily in that order) that we want something different.
Defence Ministers will no doubt tell us that although we could not contempalate using these (illegal?) weapons (World Court decison), we live in uncertain times, (in contrast to the certain times?)
Ten of 14 judges condemned the use of nuclear weapons.
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-18649464.html
In an opinion that was simultaneously forthright and ambiguous, the International Court of Justice--usually called the World Court--said in The Hague July 8 1996 that "the threat or use of nuclear weapons" was "generally" unlawful.
But the court also declared that it could not "definitively" conclude whether the threat or use of such weapons would be lawful or unlawful "in an extreme circumstance of self-defence, in which the very survival of a State would be at stake."
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Why are we spending money we do not have. My daughter is in junior school, it's an excellent school, but they have 35 children in each class. Some of the money the Government want to spend on Trident would be better spent on more teachers, and smaller class size.
The class room assistants, who work very hard and do an excellent job are earning not far off the minimum wage, perhaps some of the money that is going to be spend on money could go towards a pay rise for them.
ledal07
35 children in one class and £95Billion going to waste, what does that say about our government?.
Who would have thought an American General (or any other nationality) would have so much common sens as President Eisenhower clearly had :-
Though force can protect in emergency,
only justice, fairness, consideration
and cooperation can finally lead
men to the dawn of eternal peace.
~Dwight David Eisenhower~
Peace and justice are
two sides of the same coin.
~Dwight David Eisenhower~
These are two of an apparently endless flow of peace gems from him, a man who knew the reality of war first hand.
ledal07
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Why can't all of our elected representaives listen to some common sense?
ledal07
This week's news has been dominated by debate about the dire economic outlook facing the nation, and the likely severity of the cutbacks we'll need to make to pay down our now massive national debt. Ministers wring their hands about it but can't escape the reality that Britain plc needs to make cuts across the board - unless, of course, it's weapons of mass destruction that are under discussion.
Remarkably the cost of maintaining our 'independent' nuclear deterrent continues to increase in inverse proportion to it's usefulness. Assuming it ever was useful. And apparently we can't do without it, even though senior military advisers admit there's already a multi-billion pound 'black hole' in our defence procurement budget.Certainly Labour have in their wisdom decide to exclude it from their planned defence review.
There is a site on Facebook that is asking for free school dinners for all children, if the government was not going to spend £93 billion on Trident it could afford to have organic free school dinners!
Why are we spending money we do not have. My daughter is in junior school, it's an excellent school, but they have 35 children in each class. Some of the money the Government want to spend on Trident would be better spent on more teachers, and smaller class size. The class room assistants, who work very hard and do an excellent job are earning not far off the minimum wage, perhaps some of the money that is going to be spend on money could go towards a pay rise for them.
ledal07 35 children in one class and £95Billion going to waste, what does that say about our government?. Who would have thought an American General (or any other nationality) would have so much common sens as President Eisenhower clearly had :- Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. ~Dwight David Eisenhower~ Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin. ~Dwight David Eisenhower~ These are two of an apparently endless flow of peace gems from him, a man who knew the reality of war first hand.
ledal07 Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. Dwight D. Eisenhower Why can't all of our elected representaives listen to some common sense?
ledal07 This week's news has been dominated by debate about the dire economic outlook facing the nation, and the likely severity of the cutbacks we'll need to make to pay down our now massive national debt. Ministers wring their hands about it but can't escape the reality that Britain plc needs to make cuts across the board - unless, of course, it's weapons of mass destruction that are under discussion. Remarkably the cost of maintaining our 'independent' nuclear deterrent continues to increase in inverse proportion to it's usefulness. Assuming it ever was useful. And apparently we can't do without it, even though senior military advisers admit there's already a multi-billion pound 'black hole' in our defence procurement budget.Certainly Labour have in their wisdom decide to exclude it from their planned defence review.
There is a site on Facebook that is asking for free school dinners for all children, if the government was not going to spend £93 billion on Trident it could afford to have organic free school dinners!