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Why we must not replace Trident

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Replacing Trident will commit us to having nuclear weapons for 50 more years despite these important facts: The enormous cost • It will cost us at least £100 billion to procure and then maintain a new nuclear weapons system. • The current system already costs us at least £2 billion every year just to keep running. The majority of people are against nuclear weapons • Poll after poll show that the majority of British people are…

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Ken Loach

“Spending £100 billion on replacing Trident is a catastrophic folly. I’m sure I am one of many who support the those, like Action-AWE, who campaign actively and imaginatively against it”

– Ken Loach

John Hurt

".....the government has pledged to rebuild a new generation of British nuclear weapons at enormous cost and at a time when social services budgets including those for health and education are being drastically cut. Having nuclear weapons doesn't make us safer, it just brings the possibility of nuclear conflict ever closer. We need to protect this planet not put it at even more risk of destruction. We all have a voice so please use yours and join me in supporting ACTION AWE." John Hurt
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