Some see Labour's reluctance to support getting rid of Trident as the issue being slammed into a brick wall.
Well, maybe not.
As we've learned the unions came out in support of the workers at Faslane not to bring the discussion to conference.
Right there and then we are told that in order to achieve non renewal such a thing as process and persuasion is involved.
But Corbyn has been speaking anyway, all over the media, and that shifted the discussion from purely about mechanical process to something 'philosophical', and that hasn't happened before in front line politics.
Of course it's a gross waste of money, end of.
Corbyn said as prime minister he would never 'push the button'.
That in itself takes the discussion to a new level IMO.
Ok you support keeping Trident, but you would never deploy it.
Would you?
Who in favour of retaining the damn thing is in favour of using it?
Who would actually come out with 'well I'd push the button'.
What exactly are they arguing against here?
No one but an utter lunatic can actually, seriously say that they would deploy it anyway.
I found Corbyn's argument here brilliant.
R4 this morning had a serious military bod giving us all the grim details of the process should there ever be a nuclear attack sanctioned.
He more or less said when it came to anything so dreadful, all bets would be off.
No one has a clue how anyone would behave.
We don't need Trident out of the Clyde and shifted along the road to Portsmouth, we need rid of it altogether.
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