Originally Posted by Tom Wilde

Correctamento.

During the eighties I argued hard with CND-supporting friends that we should keep our nuclear weapons. However, after the end of the Cold War I'm not sure how much sense it makes any more. Who are we meant to be deterring? The vast sums needed to upgrade Trident drains all the cash away from other branches of the military, leaving them short of decent kit for the jobs we actually ask them to do.

I was amused that the Labour Party, having been unilateralist for much of the period it actually made sense to have nuclear weapons, changed to supporting nuclear weapons as soon as the rationale for them disappeared.


Anyway, the Liberal Party's unilateralist stance is therefore something I now agree with.