Which is the biggest 'Reckless Gamble'?

[Jim D]

The PM has described rejecting Trident renewal as a reckless gamble. I seem to recall a different PM saying the same on a different subject. Which of these do you think is the biggest?

 

[Triggaaar]

 

[Medwayseagull]

As there is no referendum on Trident it is a false comparison.

 

[Brovion]

Which is better? Chalk or cheese?

 

[Blue Valkyrie]

All the time the Thief of Svastopol is in the Kremlin we need our nukes.

 

[studio150]

Which is better? Chalk or cheese?

Cheese, given the far greater use of whiteboards than blackboards

 

[ManOfSussex]

Renewing Trident and basing it at Faslane is a gamble in my opinion.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Paying more than the nation can afford on a so-called 'independent' deterrent we have ask the USA's permission to use is a criminal waste of money.

 

[Black Rod]

Leave the EU and the country still exists
Don't renew Trident and there is nothing to deter anyone from blowing the country to pieces - which given some of the basketcases in charge around the world isn't as unlikely as all the hippies out there would like to think

 

[Ernest]

Paying more than the nation can afford on a so-called 'independent' deterrent we have ask the USA's permission to use is a criminal waste of money.

Trident would never be used, I'd rather the money was spent on schools and the NHS and improving the nation's infrastructure than having a MASSIVE weapon that nobody is ever going to use

 

[Brovion]

Trident would never be used, I'd rather the money was spent on schools and the NHS and improving the nation's infrastructure than having a MASSIVE weapon that nobody is ever going to use

But we need it silly boy. It makes total sense to spend zillions equipping our military with weapons for a war we didn't fight forty years ago as opposed to giving them the resources for current and future wars. After all France has nukes and no one EVER attacks their citizens as the nukes act as a deterrent.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Michael Fallon this morning on 5Live, said the only way to convince the world regarding nuclear disarmament and preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons - is by having nuclear weapons.

Now, he tried to explain this logic to Nicky Campbell, but I think he got lost within his own oxymoron.

 

[lawros left foot]

Leave the EU and the country still exists
Don't renew Trident and there is nothing to deter anyone from blowing the country to pieces - which given some of the basketcases in charge around the world isn't as unlikely as all the hippies out there would like to think

Well, Germany, Australia, Italy, and numerous other countries seem to get by without being 'blown to pieces' by the nutcases.
The only country to use nukes in history, are those , oh so stable folks across the Atlantic.

 

[Bold Seagull]

Well, Germany, Australia, Italy, and numerous other countries seem to get by without being 'blown to pieces' by the nutcases.
The only country to use nukes in history, are those , oh so stable folks across the Atlantic.

Even the argument that the US wants us to keep Nukes doesn't stack up, some of their top officials would rather we spent the money on our regular army so that we don't have to borrow all their gear when we're in a conflict together.

 

[Ernest]

But we need it silly boy. It makes total sense to spend zillions equipping our military with weapons for a war we didn't fight forty years ago as opposed to giving them the resources for current and future wars. After all France has nukes and no one EVER attacks their citizens as the nukes act as a deterrent.

Indeed they don't do they ? Nice, Bataclan etc

 

[Triggaaar]

Trident would never be used

Has Corbyn become PM?

 

[studio150]

Trident would never be used, I'd rather the money was spent on schools and the NHS and improving the nation's infrastructure than having a MASSIVE weapon that nobody is ever going to use

But all the leavers are telling everyone that the savings we get from being out of the EU will be used for the NHS etc so you can have both

 

[studio150]

Indeed they don't do they ? Nice, Bataclan etc

I think you missed the irony

 

[JC Footy Genius]

Paying more than the nation can afford on a so-called 'independent' deterrent we have ask the USA's permission to use is a criminal waste of money.

Do we have to ask the USA for permission to use them?

https://ukdefencejournal.org.uk/no-america-doesnt-control-britains-nuclear-weapons/

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Michael Fallon this morning on 5Live, said the only way to convince the world regarding nuclear disarmament and preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons - is by having nuclear weapons.

Now, he tried to explain this logic to Nicky Campbell, but I think he got lost within his own oxymoron.

Is he American ? I ask as that argument seems rather similar to the argument in the US for allowing people to have guns.