Trident.
Why do we need nuclear weapons? The only reason that the UK still has them is because it still has this over-inflated view of itself. Having nuclear weapons is basically the equivalent of pulling down your trousers and going “look how big my knob is”. Very good, now go fuck yourself with it.
Nuclear weapons are pointless. Wars and terrorist attacks happens in countries that have them and countries that don’t. They are not a deterrent. You cannot defeat people that believe in a certain ideology like, say, Daesh/ISIS. The only thing that would happen in a nuclear war is mutually assured destruction. If you’ve ever seen Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove: Or How Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb then you’ll understand how even over fifty years ago how the arguments came about against nuclear weapons.
£200 billion pounds spent on renewing weapons we won’t ever use? Perverse, immoral, and disgusting.
She answered with a decisive “yes” when challenged by the SNP’s George Kerevan about whether she would personally approve a nuclear launch leading to mass loss of life.
Kerevan asked May: “Is she personally prepared to authorise a nuclear strike that can kill 100,000 innocent men, women and children?”
May responded: “I have to say to the honourable gentleman, the whole point of a deterrent is that our enemies need to know that we would be prepared to use it, unlike some suggestions that we could have a deterrent but not actually be willing to use it, which seem to come from the Labour party frontbench.”
May’s statement was met by gasps from some MPs on the opposition benches.
Well, great.
There are 188 countries that don’t have nuclear weapons, and 9 that do.
This is not a deterrent.
Having Trident didn’t stop The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
Having Trident didn’t stop Argentina invading the Falkland Islands.
Having Trident didn’t stop the July 7th London bombers.
This is a vanity project. An expensive vanity project that simply does not work as a deterrent.
Have you seen the difference in the nuclear bombs that have been used in anger compared with the ones we have now?
Boooooooooooooooooooom.
We could have spent that money on more policing, more community support, ensuring that our people had jobs, that had more money to go buy things, to stimulate our economy, help make our citizens feel a bit more, hmm, happier, you know?
But no.
We had to get a penis extension. Just so the UK could sit at the nuclear table and try to look important.
