Replacing Trident
On Comment Is Free a commenter suggested today that we only pretend to replace Trident, hence getting the deterrrent capability without spending the tens of billions of pounds. This is an interesting idea, but fails as to make the pretence believed we would have to spend the money on it anyway, unless we can get the US to take part in the subterfuge too, and pretend to give us them for free.Incidentally I am on my way back from Edinburgh (which is a delightful place, although isn't the new Scottish Parliament building unattractive?) and the press there is full of comment on where the nuclear submarines will be based if Scotland goes its separate ways. It seems to me an obvious solution would be to ask the US if they could be based at King's Bay, which (I think) is where the US's near identical ships are.
Labels: defence, England, politics
posted by Matthew @ 12/03/2006 04:07:00 PM
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