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Greens Storm Ahead of Labour in National Poll As Second Most Popular Party (novaramedia.com)
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[–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

Personally I don't think this political polarisation is a good thing

The Greens apparently want to "immediately begin the process of dismantling our nuclear weapons, cancelling the Trident programme" which I think is the wrong move when Russia poses such a big threat to Europe. China and the US could pose threats in the future. Nukes deter those big powers from invading the UK. We could also work with our allies in Europe to try and create a nuclear deterrent which covers all of Europe.

Then on the other side you have Reform who want to blame brown people for everything, and I think that's also a wrong move.

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Whilst I can see the benefits of a nuclear deterrent, I do think there's an argument for scrapping the Trident programme as it relies on US support. If there's an alternative that makes us less reliant on the US, I think that should be explored.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago

    Sure it would be good to reduce reliance on the US, e.g. by replacing Trident missiles with British missiles for delivering nukes. But that web page from the Greens I linked to talks about intending to "immediately begin the process of dismantling our nuclear weapons". I think the UK should keep its nuclear weapons for now, while exploring a future possibility of non-American missiles to deliver them.

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