{"id":257,"date":"2015-09-30T14:21:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-30T14:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/?p=257"},"modified":"2017-01-18T21:20:18","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T21:20:18","slug":"unilateral-disarmament-a-field-day-for-murdoch-and-rothermere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/2015\/09\/30\/unilateral-disarmament-a-field-day-for-murdoch-and-rothermere\/","title":{"rendered":"Unilateralism in Brighton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Today at the Labour Conference<\/strong>: (a) Corbyn would never press the button, (b) Burnham, Eagles\u00a0et al\u00a0<\/em>fear Russian aggression (though not NATO’s recklessly menacing eastward expansion<\/a>) and (c) the press is\u00a0having a field day.<\/p>\n

Why, oh why muddy the waters of Trident renewal with unilateral nuclear disarmament? As North Korea shows, you don’t need anything fancy to deter external aggression. A couple of scruffy bombs will do it, and anyone who thinks a socialist Britain could survive without a bomb is disengaged from reality.\u00a0(Granted, a socialist Britain is highly\u00a0unlikely in the foreseeable future but then so is an unprovoked attack from Russia, China or,\u00a0this\u00a0side of that socialist Britain, the United States of America.)<\/p>\n

So now, just when we have a chance to ask searching questions about precisely what problem Trident is the solution to – a debate given extra bite by SNP dominance in Holyrood – Corbyn kicks the ball into the long grass. It won’t do, and what we’re seeing are the limits of Corbynia as a force of resistance.<\/p>\n

Actually I’m not being fair. The reason Trident was struck off the Brighton agenda is that the unions – including big boys Unite and GMB – won’t have it. Scrapping Trident, they reason, will cost tens of thousands of jobs. Oh really? Everywhere I look I see jobs that aren’t being done on account of this great belt-tightening we’re all in together. It won’t do, and what we’re seeing are the limits of\u00a0 ‘trade union mentality’.<\/p>\n

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Today at the Labour Conference: (a) Corbyn would never press the button, (b) Burnham, Eagles\u00a0et al\u00a0fear Russian aggression (though not NATO’s recklessly menacing eastward expansion) and (c) the press is\u00a0having a field day. Why, oh why muddy the waters of … Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steelcityscribblings.uk\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}