No to nuclear weapons in Cornwall!

With the prospect of Scotland leaving the United Kingdom a very real possibility, the government are fretting about where to put the nuclear weapons based in Coulport Scotland. Their eyes have moved to the area around Falmouth, raising the daunting prospect of weapons of mass destruction being stored in extremely close proximity to some of Cornwall's major settlements. Even more troubling that the villages of Mylor and Flushing would no longer be villages inhabited by people, but cleared for the storage of nuclear warheads. Leaving formerly peaceful villages and riverbanks a veritable fortress of barbed wire and security guards. Placing restrictions on locals, tourists, pleasure craft and fishing boats and undermining the economy. Trident here would greatly increasing the risk of terrorist attack in Cornwall and of course attack by a more conventional enemy in a war.

As Dick Cole blogged, echoing the CND campaign to cut Trident:

"It is well-known that I am also opposed to the scale and depth of the Coalition’s cuts to the public sector, but there is one area of government spending that should be cut and that is nuclear weapons."

You have to question what kind of soceity we live in when we keep mutli billion pounds weapons of mass destruction yet cut disability benefit and sack police officers, teachers and health workers. Surely society would be better served and indeed defended by prioritising jobs and services over Trident?

Even the ex Conservative defence secretary has recently questioned the point of having nuclear weapons. Michael Portillo slammed the Trident replacement as a matter of prestige and a waste of money. With the last dip of recession keen in the memory, the government's number one priority should be what is best for the economy, what is morally right, not some silly show-piece. There are much better things for this government to be spending their money upon, blighting parts of Cornwall with weapons of mass destruction shouldn't even be an option.