Dear All
Some people get a wrong idea and stick with
it through-out their entire lives.
One such person is the Vice President of
CND UK Bruce Kent.
Bruce is now backing a Yes vote the referendum
because if successful it would lead to the removal of the Trident missile system
from the Clyde.
Rather stupidly he thinks it will strike a
blow for world peace.
What it will actually do is weaken the
defence of the West.
The Scottish National Party has courted
many little anti British groups to join their ranks, but these people aren’t
Nationalists, they have their own agenda. The SNP policy on nuclear weapons is
wrong just in the same way their anti Nato policy was wrong, on defence they
are a bunch of cranks who as I said previously couldn’t defend a paintball hut
never mind a nation.
With the big debate coming up between Alex
Salmond and Alistair Darling, the SNP will hope Bruce Kent’s comments will be a
boost for the Nationalist side.
It won’t be, Scots although they don’t like
the idea of nuclear, they want to keep the Trident missile system on the Clyde.
There is a reason why Trident is in Faslane, Scotland is in a key position of
Western defence.
Bruce Kent said:
“It
is quite clear that both the major Westminster parties have no intention,
despite endless rhetoric, of negotiating their abolition or of getting rid of
British nuclear weapons. At a cost of £100 billion, which could so well be used
for people’s real needs, they intend to replace Trident with yet another
generation of weapons of mass destruction. This is proof enough of how little
concerned they are with the global elimination of nuclear weapons. My personal
view is that a Yes vote in September would lead to the removal of immoral and
illegal Trident from Faslane and Scotland.”
So, what would happen to Trident if Salmond
got his way?
It would be moved to somewhere else, the new
weapon system would still go ahead; Scotland would still be on Russian missile
target packages. You see, the Russians if there was a nuclear war would drop
nuclear missiles the length and breadth of British Isles.
You see CND which has been supported and encouraged
by the Russians are just a waste of time.
As to all the talk about an extra 2700
teachers or 3300 nurses if we got rid of Trident, that is just fantasy;
Scotland would have a massive financial black hole to fill. Scots pay in £56.5
billion in taxes to Westminster and we get back £63.1 billion, an extra 7.6
billion.
The SNP at every election campaigns on
Trident, and each time is rejected by the voters, they have only 6 MPs at
Westminster, the ‘feeble 6’. Trident isn’t a major issue for Scots, the SNP
policy doesn’t work, and the people of Scotland want Trident to remain.
SNP
MSP Bill Kidd, who Co-Chairs the Scottish Parliament cross-party group on
nuclear disarmament said:
“These comments from highly respected
anti-nuclear campaigner Bruce Kent highlight the opportunities Scotland will
have to make a difference as an independent country, leading the way on nuclear
disarmament.”
The only nuclear detonation in Scotland
will occur in 2016, above ground in Anniesland when Bill Kidd will lose his SNP
seat to the Labour Party, probably to Bill Butler.
Also Scotland would have as much influence
on the world stage as Belgium, that is to say nothing at all and no one taking
any notice of it.
Bruce Kent coming out for independence is
meaningless no matter how much the SNP try to ‘big’ him up.
Yours sincerely
George Laird
The Campaign for Human Rights at Glasgow
University
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