Trouble for Trident replacement…
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[Hat tip to WAS]
Recently, at one of his town hall meetings (central London) Lib Dem Leader and Deputy PM NickClegg said that housing benefit payments were more important than Trident.
The press, once again, made out that this was the end of the Lib Dem/Tory administration… but is it really? The Lib Dem view is to not have a like-for-like replacement of Trident since it is an out dated relic from the cold war. This view hasn’t changed, so why wouldn’t Nick speak out against Trident replacement? Especially when the already cash-strapped gov’t no thanks to years of reckless Labour control would have to find around £20bn in order to pay for Tridents successor.
The last failed totalitarian and not at all progressive Labour gov’t had ring-fenced the budget for Trident replacement. But now it looks like the funding for Trident will come out of the MoD budget, directly.
This is a very interesting turn of events, and I wonder if Military Chiefs will be so keen to replace Trident as they have been… Or will they opt for a cheaper cruise missile based system? When you consider that the entire fleet of Tornado GR4′s could be scrapped as a result of Defence savings, will Military Chiefs decide to pay for Trident or these aircraft? Hmmm… Ponder…
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We can’t afford Trident and it shouldn’t be renewed.
If the government make the right decision it will be
really good news for the coalition and the Lib Dems.
We can’t afford it, you’re right. The current plan to renew Trident is really dumb and would be obsolete before completion. Using a cruise missile system would be much cheaper (as we wouldn’t have to buy anything new or maintain two subs).
However, R&D carried out by AWE is pretty useful in area’s outside of Nuclear weapon productions – in fact they fund several PhD and other research projects at in University’s which are quite useful.
Definitely – an over-priced Cold war relic. Scrap it.
[...] said that housing benefit payments were more important than Trident.Reading Lib Dem Cllr Glenn Goodall said the idea was ‘not have a like-for-like replacement of Trident since it is an out dated relic [...]
We have the realisation that Trident is outdated/overpriced – now we need the policy decision i.e. we need to see it being scrapped.