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The £50billion cost of renewing Trident, at the expense of public service investment, is totally outrageous. The deadline for the signing off on a £2billion design contract for the nuclear weapons system is imminent and the SNP is calling on Gordon Brown to ditch Trident and plough the savings back into public services.
Time and again, in poll after poll, the majority of people across Scotland have said they oppose new weapons of mass destruction and even more say the cost is far too high. Civil society, trade unions, religious organisations and the Scottish Government are working together to keep a new generation of Trident missiles out of our waters – even military leaders openly question the affordability and rationale for these weapons, and as recent polling shows, the tide has well and truly turned on Trident.
Scotland needs money for everyday services not nuclear missiles and Gordon Brown needs to stop this Trident replacement programme immediately.
It is totally outrageous that a contract costing £2 billion pounds is waiting to be signed just for the design phase. With total costs expected to be well over £50 billion, to waste such vast sums of cash on this unwelcome project is impossible to justify. Any way that you look at it, on moral, economic or political grounds, renewal of these weapons of mass destruction is untenable.
People struggle to understand, at a time when budgets are tight across the armed forces and Scotland faces cuts from London, why the UK Government is ploughing billions of pounds into a new generation of unwanted and unnecessary nuclear weapons.
The money would be much better spent on protecting public services and jobs in Cumbernauld, Kilsyth and Kirkintilloch East and elsewhere in Scotland.
27 September 2009 |
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