Scrap Trident Now!

A Greenpeace investigation into the full costs of replacing Trident reveals that successive Tory and Labour governments have consistently under-estimated the final bill.

The government’s figures for replacing Trident in the 2006 Defence White Paper, is £15bn–£20bn at 2006–07 prices (roughly £16bn–£21bn today). However, a report by Greenpeace says that key factors the government has left out of the calculation will push the final cost up to £97bn over the system's 30-year life.

As Vince Cable said the report provided powerful evidence that MoD plans are totally unrealistic in the light of Britain's serious budgetary constraints.

So as well as the moral and military argument there is now the monetary argumet against Trident.

Time to get rid!
Look at the full rport at http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/files/pdfs/peace/ITFL_trident_report.pdf

"NO MORE HIROSHIMAS"

Today, 64 years back, the city of Hiroshima was devastated by an atomic explosions killing more than 140,000 people. The horror continued with tens of thousands more injured and thousands more birth defects for years to come.

Whilst mayor of Hebden Royd I signed the Cities Appeal in Support of Hiroshima-Nagasaki Protocol. This is a practical plan by which governments can achieve a nuclear-weapon-free world by the year 2020 given that the economic and technical means of ridding the world of nuclear weapons before 2020 already exist.

Tonight at 7:30, I'll be giving a talk on Lib Dem Defence Policy at the White Lion in Hebden Bridge, and publicising our total opposition to Trident.

On this fateful anniversary, we should all be determined that the scourge of nuclear weapons is never visited on our planet again.