tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133809191630290599.post3521247000423194144..comments2023-08-19T16:44:23.150+01:00Comments on National Left: Scottish Labour Ditches Opposition to Trident Renewal Welsh Labour already have.glynbeddauhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09933352430631144936noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2133809191630290599.post-66133357055355666032019-11-27T18:04:37.659+00:002019-11-27T18:04:37.659+00:00It's not as if it's an independent WMD any...It's not as if it's an independent WMD anyway. Professor David Edgerton writes "The idea that it was a truly independent British deterrent was for the public only. Internally [successive governments] repeatedly rejected actual independence in favour of dependence … Indeed, an official rationale for a bomb only partly controlled by the British needed to be invented" [The rise & fall of the British Nation, 2018]<br /><br />Welcome to Airstrip One, as if you didn't already know!<br /><br />Gavnoreply@blogger.com