[Kizzy]

'The cost of ensuring an up to date nuclear deterrent might be indecently high, but the cost of NOT having one WILL one day be fatally imeasurable and unthinkable.'

Well yes 40 billion is the estimated figure, as heard on question time. It was intimated that in order to provide it services may suffer, that was the whole crux of my question.

It's not idiotic to attempt to predict who is for a total replacement of a nuclear deterrent and who isn't due to the affectation of public services, due to the impact of such measures.
There is a live chat about it at 12 today if anyone is interested.

http://www.theguardian.com/society-p...vices-livechat

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Kizzy

'The cost of ensuring an up to date nuclear deterrent might be indecently high, but the cost of NOT having one WILL one day be fatally imeasurable and unthinkable.'

Well yes 40 billion is the estimated figure, as heard on question time. It was intimated that in order to provide it services may suffer, that was the whole crux of my question.

It's not idiotic to attempt to predict who is for a total replacement of a nuclear deterrent and who isn't due to the affectation of public services, due to the impact of such measures.
There is a live chat about it at 12 today if anyone is interested.

http://www.theguardian.com/society-p...vices-livechat

And so it has NOT occurred to you that this TORY Cabinet Minister might have been pre-emptingly 'planting' a 'seed' on a NATIONAL television program watched by only the 'poiltically' interested - a 'seed' which will subconsciously grow in the viewer's minds that IF we are to HAVE a 'viable' and 'vital' nuclear deterrent, then we must EXPECT further cuts in some of our services?

This Tory Cabinet Minister must either be a complete idiot, or he had ulterior motives for stating what he has - motives which could include the very clever 'softening up' of an increasingly anxious, terrorist aware public - acclimatising them to, and making them more receptive to, the idea that future cuts to some services are 'unavoidable'.