Lamadia 2016 wrote:Na h-Alba Nuadh wrote:Come on, who is the UK actually going to use nukes on? Since the home grown systems were allowed to wither away in favour of buying from the USA (proving the govt had learned nothing from Tube Alloys), holding on to them has always just been an expensive willy waving exercise. Developing new weapons which (a)have an actual strategic & tactical use, and (b)allow home grown industry in a lucrative field with many spin off benefits would be a much better use of all that money.
Russia, China, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, N. Korea- any of the many unstable nuclear powers we share the world stage with. We need newer, better nuclear weapons, better delivery systems, updated ability; it isn't good enough to rely on the U.S or other NATO members- we have an obligation to world security, and we can't achive this with a mundane, let's call it lukewarm, nuclear detterant.
In other news, China has built or has begun to build 60 new airports in the time it has taken the Government to make a decision on expanding Heathrow or Gatwick. When I read that yesterday, I have to say, I was massively shocked by what the level of bureaucracy is doing to our economy. The Chinese are competing with us- that's a good thing. But for our Government to show such complacency in decision making, is just not right- in a post-Brexit world, we need new airports, we need expansion, we need more business, and we can't compete when it is taking so long to make such small decisions. Give the bloody document to the Cabinet to make a decision, for God's sake!
It's poor oversight to compare ourselves to China on this, given things like the environment, health and saftey, noise, property rights, planning, workers hours and so forth tends to be well below our own standards.
I'd suggest a comparable developed nation instead.