The Green party is now polling second behind Reform, according to a poll carried out in the wake of new Green MP Hannah Spencer’s win at Gorton and Denton.
Personally I don’t think this political polarisation is a good thing
The Greens apparently want to “immediately begin the process of dismantling our nuclear weapons, cancelling the Trident programme” which I think is the wrong move when Russia poses such a big threat to Europe. China and the US could pose threats in the future. Nukes deter those big powers from invading the UK. We could also work with our allies in Europe to try and create a nuclear deterrent which covers all of Europe.
Then on the other side you have Reform who want to blame brown people for everything, and I think that’s also a wrong move.
Whilst I can see the benefits of a nuclear deterrent, I do think there’s an argument for scrapping the Trident programme as it relies on US support. If there’s an alternative that makes us less reliant on the US, I think that should be explored.
Sure it would be good to reduce reliance on the US, e.g. by replacing Trident missiles with British missiles for delivering nukes. But that web page from the Greens I linked to talks about intending to “immediately begin the process of dismantling our nuclear weapons”. I think the UK should keep its nuclear weapons for now, while exploring a future possibility of non-American missiles to deliver them.
Personally I don’t think this political polarisation is a good thing
The Greens apparently want to “immediately begin the process of dismantling our nuclear weapons, cancelling the Trident programme” which I think is the wrong move when Russia poses such a big threat to Europe. China and the US could pose threats in the future. Nukes deter those big powers from invading the UK. We could also work with our allies in Europe to try and create a nuclear deterrent which covers all of Europe.
Then on the other side you have Reform who want to blame brown people for everything, and I think that’s also a wrong move.
Whilst I can see the benefits of a nuclear deterrent, I do think there’s an argument for scrapping the Trident programme as it relies on US support. If there’s an alternative that makes us less reliant on the US, I think that should be explored.
Sure it would be good to reduce reliance on the US, e.g. by replacing Trident missiles with British missiles for delivering nukes. But that web page from the Greens I linked to talks about intending to “immediately begin the process of dismantling our nuclear weapons”. I think the UK should keep its nuclear weapons for now, while exploring a future possibility of non-American missiles to deliver them.