COST OF TRIDENT RENEWAL INDEFENSIBLE

COST OF TRIDENT RENEWAL INDEFENSIBLE

Commenting following the Chatham House speech by the Defence
Secretary, in which he claimed renewal of the £100bn Trident nuclear
weapons programme represented value for money, SNP Westminster leader
and Defence spokesperson, Angus Robertson MP said:

“To claim Trident represents value for money is the economics of the
madhouse. It cannot be right to proceed with its procurement whilst
aiming to cut other conventional areas of defence spending at a time
when our forces need support most.

“The strategic defence review is necessary to prioritise our defence
needs in a changed world, and top of the list for that review must be
ditching Trident. Anyway that you look at it; on moral, economic or
political grounds, renewal of these weapons of mass destruction is
untenable.

“The SNP believe it should be scrapped and more so, at a time when
public spending faces savage cuts across the board, the time has come
to accept that Trident can no longer be treated as some sacred cow.”