Thursday 15 March 2007

Britannia Keeps her Trident


In a burst of sanity, the House of Commons voted to replace the Trident nuclear deterrent when it reaches its service limit in 2020.

The press has made a meal of the backbench rebellion against the government and fostered the impression that if the vote passed, it would barely squeak through, which it did-- if a landslide victory of 409 to 161 can be called a "squeak".

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

To quote the mildly annoying Guinness commercial: "Brilliant!"

Anonymous said...

And how will Britan remain a nuclear power, ensuring that it won't be a cheap target for some mad dictator?

And what if it does?