http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-could-boycott-trident-vote-to-stem-internal-rebellion-a6844071.html The Conservatives want to hold a snap vote in the House of Commons to approve the construction of four new submarines HMS Vigilant, one of four submarines carrying the Trident missile The government can "find" £31billion to renew weapons of mass destruction, but cannot afford to build houses for people crying out for homes. They can find £31billion to build 4 new submarines, but cannot afford to adequately fund welfare for the sick, disabled and pensioners. The government can ignore more than 1 million families, reliant on Foodbanks and other charities, to fund a prestige project implemented with the ultimate objective of killing millions of men, women and children. Rather than boycotting a vote in the House of Commons, the whole of the Parliamentary Labour Party, together with the wider Labour movement in the country and trade unions...
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http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/30/corbyn-backs-calls-for-scottish-labour-to-vote-against-trident-renewal Corbyn backs calls for Scottish Labour to vote against Trident renewal Kezia Dugdale Scottish Labour leader It is beyond belief that in a week which saw impassioned speeches against cuts to Income Tax Credits, and equally passionate speeches from supporters of the cuts, arguing how the country cannot afford to continue to support families who rely on the "top up" to their income, that there can be any debate surrounding a replacement for the existing Trident "deterrent". In 2014 Working Tax Credit and Child Tax Credit had a combined cost £30 billion per year. However, the high cost of this benefit is predominately due to more firms taking the option to pay lower salaries and even offer even more "Zero hour" contracts, knowing that the government will subsidise the low pay with taxpayers money. This is not an argument for cuttin...
A debate in the Labour Party that has been around for 70 years which the media now calls a "new" split.
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/30/labour-split-on-defence-grows-as-eagle-criticises-corbyn-over-trident Labour split on defence grows as Maria Eagle criticises Corbyn over Trident The "row" within the labour party, as the hysterical media report it, or the debate as it actually is (and as sensible people describe it), surrounding the question of nuclear weapons and “deterrence” has been going on for decades. Since the 1945 in fact, when the sights and sounds of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were still fresh in the mind as recent memory or for some, actual experience, the abhorrence and revulsion at the thought that any civilised nation could employ weapons of mass destruction against the civilian population of another country has for many, been too awful to contemplate. The debate has moved on since then, through the CND days of the 1950's, the Aldermaston Ma...
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keeping-trident-stops-nuclear-blackmail-claims-crossparty-commission-9570682.html Keeping Trident 'stops nuclear blackmail,' claims cross-party commission. "Trident Commission" Arrant nonsense from the "Trident Commission" (a cross-party commission led by two former defence secretaries and a former leader of the Liberal Democrats.). The Trident nuclear deterrent is not "independent" and it doesn't deter, so we may as well save the money to spend on more important things. NHS, schools, eliminating the need for food banks for example.
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/04/04/trident-is-needed-to-cope-with-threat-from-north-korea-and-iran_n_3011933.html?utm_hp_ref=uk Trident Is Needed To Cope With Threat From North Korea And Iran, David Cameron Says More illogical garbage from Cameron. His arguments are complete nonsense and have been discredited for decades. Scare mongering to justify retaining a missile system which is neither "independent" (no mention of the "launch codes" in this story) and which certainly does not deter, has the cobwebs of history all over it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/oct/29/tories-lib-dems-trident Philip Hammond announces go ahead for nuclear deterrent replacement before review completed Defence Secretary Philip Hammond . £1 billion deal paves the way for Trident nuclear deterrent replacement The myth of the "independent nuclear deterrent" gets another breath of life blown into it by Hammond's decisions to award a further multimillion-pound contract for a new generation of nuclear missile submarines, clearly signposting plans to press ahead with a replacement for Trident. Since the 1980's, and even before then, there are those of us who have argued that the "deterrent" is not independent (as we have to obtain launch codes before we can use it) and it does not deter as was demonstrated by the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands to name but one example. The "threat" is an empty one now and always has been. However, successive war mongering...