SIR – Harriet Baldwin’s comments in the Worcester News on August 4 about the vote to renew Trident were truly disheartening. We are repeatedly told that we do not have money to invest in public services, yet we apparently have billions of pounds to spend on weapons of mass destruction.
Harriet Baldwin claims that having these weapons of mass destruction will keep our nation safe. However, as the Green MEP Jean Lambert has said: “There are a growing number of voices saying that replacing the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons system is costly and unnecessary as it does nothing to respond to the security risks we now face.
“The UK can take the lead in nuclear disarmament if it has the courage and vision to do it. To deploy a nuclear weapon, we only need to have one. Has our human race learned nothing?”
Neil Laurenson
Worcester Green Party
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