I know that some of beloved readers will think I am straying far from my role as a councillor when I have the temerity to do a blog about nuclear bombs and the Trident replacement programme. But there are a number of prompts to me that remind me that all policies are interconnected. When we decide to do one thing than we often cannot do another- often because the money we would like to use is gone.
My prompts have been firstly addressing the CND national conference which I am delighted to tell you was held in Liverpool and the publication of a book which I heard discussed on the Today programme this morning.
The CND conference was small but perfectly formed and the existence of CND serves to remind us that nuclear weapons have not gone although the cold war is, supposedly, over. In fact, depending on how you judge it, we still have enough ageing nuclear weapons around to destroy the world 5 times over and that is after 20 years of decommissioning by the major powers!
