This week Theresa May, rightly as prime minister, made a very sympathetic statement in support of
families and friends of flat dwellers in the Grenfell Tower who have died or been injured.
This follows earlier statements this month expressing her
abhorrence of more innocent civilians people dying at the hands of ruthless
maniacal terrorists in Manchester and London.
Yet she seems sanguine over launching Trident in our
national “defence”, which would kill millions of innocent civilians.
On the weekend
before Election day, Mrs May asserted in an article in the Mail on Sunday, that Jeremy
Corbyn held chilling views on Trident nuclear WMDs, because he would not use
them.
Indeed, in the Parliamentary debate
on Trident renewal on 18 July last year when
SNP’s George Kerevan, asked her: "Are you prepared to authorise a nuclear
strike that could kill hundreds of thousands of men, women and children?” Mrs May
replied with one word: “Yes.”(Hansard column 56; https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-07-18/debates/7B7A196B-B37C-4787-99DC-098882B3EFA2/UKSNuclearDeterrent)
When sane Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn refused to confirm he
would defend Britain from nuclear attack by using Trident in retaliation, in a BBC tv Question Time Q&A during the
election campaign he was jeered. Indeed, a young woman in the audience reacted,
saying she did not understand why so many people in the room were keen on
killing millions of people by using nuclear weapons.
This week, negotiations have resumed at the United
Nations in New York to conclude a treaty to ban nuclear weapons, to ensure no
innocent civilians are ever incinerated in their tens of thousands by nuclear
weapons launched by design or accident. The British government refuses to participate,
despite 117 nations doing so This is shameful and unacceptable.( http://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/images/documents/Disarmament-fora/nuclear-weapon-ban/reports/NBD2.1.pdf)
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