UK: Lib Dems become serious business - overtake Labour in ComRes poll, close in on Tories
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[QUOTE=KillerTV;21450646]I too, think we should throw hundreds of billions of pounds at international dick waving rather than putting it to good use.[/QUOTE]
Except this isn't dick waving - I have already explained that.
[QUOTE=HubmaN;21444003]You could launch torpedoes where ships can't see you (nah, I'm joking. I know close to nothing about this.)
[editline]10:51AM[/editline]
Not if ITV can't help it.[/QUOTE]
All of UK's nuclear warheads are on submarines, if we lose one submarine then it means that we lose alot of our counter offensive threat in any given area of the world.
If this is a bump then sorry.
The Lib Dems won't just get rid of Trident - they support a nuclear deterrent. They want to replace it - in breach of the non-proliferation treaty, and probably the non-testing treaty as well if they have any sense.
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Basically you're voting to spend billions on breaching international law.
[QUOTE=David29;21450265]
You do realise that what you are saying is completely contradictory, right? By relying on America to do everything for us we will become increasingly dependant on them and be even more of a puppydog than we are now. If you really wanted the UK to separate itself from the USA so badly, then you would better of with the UK actually increasing defence spending so that it could be entirely self-reliant, much as Charles de Gaul did with France.[/QUOTE]
But we can't afford this at all. There's going to have to be absolutely massive cuts across all departments (I remember reading something like 14%) if the NHS and the education departments are ring-fenced. Where is the money for you self reliance going to come from?
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