Nuclear Warheads

Why has Gordon Brown committed his government to fork out £25 billion pounds for a nuclear warheads etc to maintain our so-called ‘independent’ nuclear deterrent. It is so INDEPENDENT, that we cannot use it, if we ever wanted to without the Americans letting us do so. That money could be better spent on arming our military forces with better weapons and protective equipment etc and providing decent homes for our hard working soldiers. The government has also sold off some of the military’s top assets in a lease back deal with the private sector which is probably going to cost the tax payer much more than keeping hold of them. To top it all off when the lease back deal ends in 35 years the government wont get the land back as the private companies have a 150 lease on the land so more money will be wasted buying back the land etc. Brown said that he wanted to move away from the Blair years yet he was behind much of the privatisation of our public services, which often mean a good deal for the private companies but not such a good one for taxpayers.