MoD handout of the test firing of a Trident missile Photo: ROYAL NAVY/PA Scrap Trident, Voters Tell Brown -- The Independent
Money should go on health and education instead, survey finds.
The public wants Britain to scrap the Trident nuclear missile system but believes spending on health and education should rise each year, according to a ComRes poll for The Independent.
By a margin of 58 to 35 per cent, people believe that the £25bn renewal of the Trident programme should be abandoned because of the state of the public finances. The finding will strengthen the hand of ministers who are pressing Gordon Brown to cancel or delay the scheme as Labour prepares to unveil public spending cuts.
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My Comment: This poll comes from The Independent .... a newspaper that has never been a fan of Britain's nuclear program. But even if I question their methodology on how they did this poll, the key point that should not be overlooked is that the British government is laying the groundwork to cancel the program.
At £25bn, the British cannot afford it. This reality is going to settle in one way or another.
Expect (in the next few years) the U.K. making a solicitation to the American Government that they will now fall under the U.S. nuclear umbrella.