Liberal Democrats Against Trident call on Conference to change party defence policy.
With just over a month to go before Autumn Conference the hot news is a call from a new group of over 500 party members to remove the UK nuclear weapon from the UK's arsenal. If you support the motion below why not join the on-line only group at www.facebook.com/libdemsagainsttrident.?
Conference motion to be debated on Monday 21ST September at Bournemouth Conference:
Conference notes that the go-ahead for building Successor submarines for the Trident system is scheduled to be decided upon in 2016.
Conference believes that British possession of nuclear weapons is inappropriate and unhelpful to today's needs.
Conference rejects the proposed spending of £100billion on the system over its lifetime, believing the money could be better spent.
Conference therefore calls for the plans to renew the Trident system to be scrapped, and for the earliest decommissioning of the existing Trident force.
Editor's comment:
The UK is one of a tiny minority of nuclear states (having chosen under Atlee's post-war Labour Government to follow the US along the nuclear path during the Cold War. We promise 40 yrs ago to `work in all good faith to eliminate nuclear weapons' but it has not happened and more and more nuclear weapons are added to the world's enormous stockpile. At NPT conferences the majority states call for a Nuclear weapons Convention, which would effectively outlaw nuclear weapons and require disarmament under strict international jurisdiction and policing. So far our Governments have not taken this seriously. With a possible CND vice-chair as Labour party leader, can we now see the beginnings of a real push to rid the UK and eventually the world of nuclear weapons? iT IS POSSIBLE AND WORTH WORKING FOR.