Moves to replace nuclear weapons 'utterly wrong'

Replacing Trident with a nuclear deterrent dropped from the air would be "utterly wrong" and the plan "misses the point entirely" the SNP has said today.

Think-tank CentreForum has put forward plans for a nuclear deterrent dropped from the air, claiming that this would save money. However, the plan would still involve wasting hundreds of billions of pounds on dangerous and immoral weapons of mass destruction at a time when Westminster cuts mean more and more people are relying on foodbanks to feed their families.

Commenting, SNP MSP Bill Kidd said: "Moves to simply replace one eye-wateringly expensive nuclear weapons system with another one misses the point entirely. Nuclear weapons are a moral obscenity and the prospect of wasting tens of billions of pounds on weapons of mass destruction at a time when more and more people are relying on foodbanks is utterly wrong.

"The SNP has made consistently clear that we will oppose new nuclear weapons, regardless of which system is proposed."

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The story appears in today's Scotsman