But they do that is a known fact. Labour think by taxing the better paid people they can make all these wonderful work like, Nationalise the railways, the post office, the water companies etc.. what a load of tosh. It has been proved by George Osborne that by lowering the tax threshold on the rich the government will rake in more money as when you tax the better off with high taxes they either move away or stop in vesting. Labour has ALWAYS been a high taxing and borrowing party and is why we are in the sh1t we are and paying back so much money. Labour if in power would bankrupt the country and we would ALLbe worse off as happened before.

Regarding Trident and if Labour get in there will be a strategic defence review and JC will be able to ascertain the defence chiefs' opinion on whether Trident is a deterrent or not.

It is by no means a given that their view will be that it is and they are aware of the run-down state of our conventional forces to help pay for it.

Is there an alternative cheaper missile system and is it effective?

There are still several years available to use the present Trident system it would not be leaving the nuclear deterrent to defer renewal.

IMO Trident is out-dated cold war thinking.

Our services clearly lack resources. You only have to experience it to know that many key services are underfunded and cannot cope. Labour are raising tax by a modest amount to provide funding to areas of our society we all hope we never have to rely on, but essentially it's almost inevitable that at some point in time we will, or a member of our family will. It's all good to tell us "yeah but we're building for the future", well when do we start investing again? This is the problem I've always had with tories, they ALWYS have money to provide for causes that seem so insignificant to the ordinary but the argument is "well yeah but this will help our economy and if we don't do it well all be f***ed anyway", yet they never seem to sort anything out that those worse off can actually benefit from. How many more years of austerity do we face? When do we have enough money? When are the tories going to actually help those who rely on help the most?

No, it is up to you to provide reliable evidence to back up your position.

Until you do so, your 'position' will be automatically dismissed as paranoid, politically driven drivel.

This great Britain mate...not some tinpot country where dictators are subject to countless military coups...have a think before posting.

Outdated?....Russia and China with expressionist mindsets and you call this outdated.

What matters is ensuring that it is probable that attacking us with nuclear weapons would result in an unacceptable loss to themselves.

Whatever the system is.... it is only the unpleasant result that matters. The name of it is unimportant. If it were true that our system was ineffective then the best policy would be to correct that as quickly as possible.

Corbyn is totally wedded to non use regardless. His party isn't but they don't get to decide if push came to shove.

A CND mindset in charge at the top of government is unacceptable.

Edited by Stirlingsays (16 May 2017 9.07pm)