The Independent Deterrent: It’s not. Are you?
The government lovingly and gently lowers our wedding tackle into American hands…
The UK Atomic Weapons Establishment, which makes and maintains the warheads for Britain’s nuclear missiles, has come under the control of US companies after the government sold its one-third stake.
Ministers were accused Thursday night of trying to conceal the change in ownership after failing to make an announcement to parliament.
So let’s not have any more of this nonsense – Here’s Gordon Brown in 2006:
And I mean not just stability by securing low inflation but stability in our industrial relations, stability through a stable and competitive tax regime, and stability through a predictable and light touch regulatory environment – a stability founded on our strength to make the right long term decisions, the same strength of national purpose we will demonstrate in protecting our security in this Parliament and the long-term – strong in defence in fighting terrorism, upholding NATO, supporting our armed forces at home and abroad, and retaining our independent nuclear deterrent.
(Actually, there’s hardly any of that paragraph that doesn’t deserve a shoeing.)
Posted on December 19th, 2008 at 11:29am under Affronts to democracy, New Labour, Nuclear: power and weapons
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If you did shoe him, you’d only have to write an apology for your shameful act…
and stability through a predictable and light touch regulatory environment
Well that worked well.
stability founded on our strength to make the right long term decisions
Oh, fuck me. To properly fisk that quote, you’d have to do it syllable by syllable.
The Royal Navy has to collect the nuclear missiles from a US Naval storage depot on the Atlantic seaboard anyway.
What if they’re out? Do they have to come back after lunch?
So, we’ve gone from being a toadying poodle, to what – a Sooty glove puppet?