Jeremy Corbyn is on collision course with Labour MPs and trade unions for defiantly speaking at an anti-Trident rally and snubbing his party’s pro-EU campaign.
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And union leaders claim the Labour leader and his left-wing allies are putting tens of thousands of jobs in the defence industry in jeopardy by opposing the renewal of Trident nuclear submarines.
“It is the norm in the world today to be nuclear-free”, she said. It is the exception to the rule to possess nuclear weapons, let that ring out loudly and clearly.
Protestors argue that the consequences of deploying nuclear weapons are so great that Britain will never initiate an attack, rendering Trident a useless and expensive means for obtaining political influence.
But his willingness to share a platform with Sturgeon as well as Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood, former Green party leader Caroline Lucas and actress Vanessa Redgrave was criticised by his Labour colleagues.
Organisers estimated that “many tens of thousands” of people had braved cold weather to join the protest, which they hope will deter the government from renewing the nuclear weapons system.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who addressed the rally after Sturgeon, said: “We live in a world where so many things are possible”.
Trident is based at the Faslane naval base near Glasgow on the west coast of Scotland, and the issue is expected to be an issue during the forthcoming Scottish elections. Where peace is possible in so many places. A larger antinuclear crowd hasn’t assembled since 1983 when 300,000 came together in Hyde Park in London to protest the deployment of missiles in Berkshire, England.
“You don’t achieve peace by planning for war, grabbing resources and not respecting each other’s human rights”.
“Public opinion is actually against spending 150 billion pounds [$208 billion] or more in nuclear weapons”, Kent added. The party’s leader Jeremy Corbyn favours unilateral disarmament yet other members of his shadow cabinet are outspoken advocates.
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Political divisions revolve around two main issues: how many submarines Britain should have and how this affects “continuous at sea deterrence”, or the ability to always have a nuclear-armed vessel on patrol. They don’t care that thousands of jobs in Scotland depend on Trident, nor that it helps safeguard Britain’s place in the world.
