On Saturday 27 March we took to the streets of Walthamstow to find out what local residents made of the Government’s plan to spend £97 billion replacing Trident.
With Dave looking cool in his sandwich board, some occasional sunshine, and some interesting rapping accompaniment from a local youth group, we spent three hours cajoling shoppers into stopping for a chat.
In all, 267 people took part in our street poll. A whopping 251 of them voted “no”, that’s over 94%! Following the Guardian/ICM poll last summer (where 54% voted to abandon the UK nuclear deterrent), we had strongly suspected that public opinion would be against spending so much money on something so questionable, but even so: 94%!
Okay, so maybe this wasn’t quite a MORI poll, but I think we got the general picture: Walthamstow thinks that this is entirely bonkers. Go Walthamstow!
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