Say NO to wasting £97bn on new nuclear weapons

We are in the deepest recession since World War II and facing some tough choices. Our essential public services are all being lined up for cuts, along with crucial programmes to secure clean, safe energy to power our homes and businesses.

But the easiest cut of all cutting out plans to build new nuclear weapons is being ignored by our politicians.

With an election imminent, it's time to remind our politicians they work for us - and polls consistently show that most of us don't see the need to waste vast sums on a doomsday machine.

Tell all your parliamentary candidates that you don't want to waste £97 bn on new nuclear weapons at:
http://cut-trident.greenpeace.org.uk

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• greenpeace

[2004carlt]

@todiolive Came from something I read in the Independent....Google 'Greenpeace Nuclear power? Yes please...' Former head of Greenpeace.

[GreenpeaceUK]

@2004carlt surely the key word there is 'former'?

[homeworld23]

Why don't the government just say they've renewed them, then it will still be perceived as a threat and we get to use the money on something worth while. I mean there never going to be used. Just say they're bad ass and there's your nuclear deterrent.

[robotcopwin]

The goverment just wants nuclear weapons to test on people and to kill people in a more gory way.

[Joshtodamav]

Gov't needs to invest in nukes so when russia or korea decided to attack we got them to.

[Kunguskang]

Waste of money, waste of life and provides no use. A move away from the cut throat hostility of nuclear arms race and a move to a more mature, progressive, sustainable future sounds like a better idea right?

[InfidelMC]

@homeworld23 thats not the message we need to spread, I know its difficult for our government or any for that matter to pioneer it but we need to see the abolition of nuclear weapons and an end to the arms race

[InfidelMC]

Nuclear Power?? No thanks....Stop trident....remember those stickers on my dads guitar case when I was a kid. I'll be spreading the word of this video and writing to my MP Gary Streeter

[charlienethercoat094]

@charlienethercoat094 97 trillion pounds so far

[charlienethercoat094]

i totally agree i'm all for band the bomb but 97billion pounds is nothing spent in comparison due to the money spent on the kyoto protocol in which you greenpeacers know so much about and were a part of..............the results may shock you so much i have no idea how many digits that is i dont how man trillions it is anyone want the link?

[wehatemacs]

how can they justify it when we are supposed to be recovering from an economic downturn? I really hate all little rich boys in politics. how can you be in a position to change the way a country works if you are totally removed from society, live in a big house, with loads of cash and in turn have absolutely no idea about the aspirations of the common man or woman. Our system is pathetic, we are super-evolved apes, we need to get over ourselves and cut the bullshit.

[michelexyz]

definitely a waste of £

[2004carlt]

@GreenpeaceUK I understand that he doesn't speak for Greenpeace and he does seem to have an axe to grind as he's also claimed that Greenpeace was infiltrated and taken over by communists when the Berlin Wall came down and they have used it to their own ends ever since.

[2004carlt]

@andylecap Sure, but nuclear waste is often a by-product that is then put into nuclear warheads and also into bullets for use in Iraq and the like. Google 'Remains of toxic bullets litter Iraq'. Uranium will be the next big thing and people are already hyping it as the next gold rush. Also Google'uranium indigenous people'. To get it out of the ground they will use slave labour with little care for their health. Already, there are reports of 14 aboriginal miners getting cancer.