They might need these to frighten the Argies
The Poms are thinking of downgrading the Trident programme and a lot of people are upset about it. The nuclear deterrent is one of the things keeping the Argies under control…that and the fact they never really recovered from seeing their navy sunk, their airforce destroyed and their army learn to march backwards.
Britain must retain a “continuous nuclear deterrent” or its position as a leading world power will be in jeopardy, defence secretaries who have served under the past four Prime Ministers have warned.
In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, five former Conservative and Labour ministers have joined military chiefs to say that downgrading the Trident programme would risk national security.
Their intervention comes on the day that a Liberal Democrat review into alternatives to replacing Trident is published. It will be presented by Danny Alexander, the Chief Secretary to the Treasury. Read more »

As much at home writing editorials as being the subject of them, Cam has won awards, including the Canon Media Award for his work on the Len Brown/Bevan Chuang story. When he’s not creating the news, he tends to be in it, with protagonists using the courts, media and social media to deliver financial as well as death threats.
They say that news is something that someone, somewhere, wants kept quiet. Cam Slater doesn’t do quiet and, as a result, he is a polarising, controversial but highly effective journalist who takes no prisoners.
He is fearless in his pursuit of a story.
Love him or loathe him, you can’t ignore him.
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