The Government gives us no say on replacing Trident nukes - but you can vote online: http://bit.ly/g4W48
Spot the odd one out. Trident is nuclear. Not the UK’s because we lease them from the US.
Never mind if we have complete control of launch codes (do you really think the Americans would let us nuke them?). Trident is independent except for depending on the US for
● Manufacture
● Servicing
● Technical help to make the warheads functional
● Satellites for navigation and targeting.
Members of our site are asked about whether with Trident we can have an independent foreign policy or are sacrificing our liberty to security and following American interests.
As for being a deterrent, why is the Government unable to say against whom?
And as for maintaining peace: Afghanistan-Iraq-Bosnia-Gulf-Falklands-Aden …Suez-Cyprus-Korea-Malaysia-Burma...
Government says you’re more at risk carrying a knife, safer having nuclear weapons, but even women have broken into our nuclear installations so how safe can they be from terrorists? If the defence case for Trident were not silly and dangerous enough, there is a question of affordability, which involves more lies on how much replacing it will really cost.
● Does retaining nuclear weapons make us and the World safer?
● How much do you think it will really cost and should we spend this instead on protecting public services?
● How open, engaging and accountable anyway do you rate Government Ministers and Departments on Defence, Nuclear and Foreign Policy?
You can use your electronic ballot paper to vote on these and other questions, including how your choice in the general election may be affected by parties and candidates supporting Trident.
Then you can say: "I voted in the Trident Replacement Referendum Gordon Brown didn’t want to have; you can too! Please RT http://bit.ly/g4W48"
Get the latest on the Trident Replacement Referendum...
The aim of campaigning is winning. Some will think this one on cancelling Trident just can't be won. True? Is winning all that campaigning is about?
(1) You can't win unless you play.
● Believe the outcome you want is possible.
Otherwise, risks include increased disempowerment; apathy; insufficient debate with people not being informed on issues; inadequate challenge and holding to account for power holders; and less free society.
(2) So if you feel strongly and believe that your cause is right then campaigning anyway is doing the right thing even if you don't succeed (like the 1-2m people who marched before the Iraq war).
(3) There are many organisations opposing Trident but they just seem to do their own thing (and put their faith in petitions that Government will ignore) rather than helping push other campaigns like mine. Co-operation and co-ordination between them seems poor and this hardly helps success.
● Surely, a lesson for campaigners!
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