[Livia]

Originally Posted by JoshBB

Yes we should scrap trident.

For 100bn we could spend it on much better things such as scrapping tuition fees, having a fully-funded NHS, renationalising the railways and energy.. honestly this relic of the cold war is completely pointless as we're never going to use it. Chemical nuclear weapons are NOT defense.

Defence, you mean.

I agree. We could spend the money on something better. Sadly, as every dictator and madman in the world either has nuclear weapons or is striving for nuclear weapons, it would be foolhardly for us, a country which has already sustained terrorist attacks from all kinds of fanatical groups, to leave ourselves completely unarmed.