Swinson’s nuclear disdain for Jeremy Corbyn shows she doesn’t know her history
Amazing. Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson’s first response when asked why she can’t go into a pact with Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour is that he wouldn’t press the nuclear button:
Asked why she could never do a coalition deal with Labour, Jo Swinson’s response will blow your mind. Not poverty. Not hunger. Not homelessness. Not Bedroom Tax. Here is where her priority lay….. (20 seconds video) https://t.co/uaImwb9LyZ
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) November 5, 2019
She needs to check her history.
While she is right that new prime ministers’ first job is to write a letter to the captains of the UK’s nuclear submarine fleet, telling them what to do with their missiles in the event of a conflict, she should also know that they don’t have to order the use of those missiles.
Indeed, Edward Heath – of the Conservative Party that Ms Swinson supported so wholeheartedly in the Coalition Government – told them to sail to Australia or New Zealand rather than use their missiles.
He said if a nuclear strike was launched on the UK, there would be nothing to defend and it would be better for them to seek a new life elsewhere.
That is just one example.
For all I know, every UK prime minister has done the same.
But we know now that Jo Swinson would launch nuclear missiles, even if it was pointless to do so.
And this psychopath thinks the electorate will put her in a position to do so.
No thank you – let’s have a Corbyn-led Labour government that will help people live, not plan to enable their deaths.
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This woman has gone beyond being merely a gobby wing-nut. She’s clinically insane!
What would be the point of retaliating? That would just be to invite another nuclear strike against this country.
In 1999, Paul Nitze, US architect of the Cold War, turned his back on the nuclear weapons that he had championed for much of his time in government:
“The fact is, I see no compelling reason why we should not unilaterally get rid of our nuclear weapons. To maintain them is costly and adds nothing to our security.
I can think of no circumstances under which it would be wise for the United States to use nuclear weapons, even in retaliation for their prior use against us. What, for example, would our targets be? It is impossible to conceive of a target that could be hit without large-scale destruction of many innocent people.”
The title of his article is: A threat mostly to ourselves
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~sanders/214/other/news/10281999nitze.html