Activists held an anti-Trident protest outside the Liberal Democrats™ conference in Glasgow on September 14, 2013.
British anti-nukes campaigners have staged a protest outside the annual conference of the Liberal Democrat party to call on the UK government to scrap the Trident nuclear weapons system and stop plans to replace it.
Activists took part in the demonstration, which was organized by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) and Scottish CND, in the Scottish city of Glasgow on Saturday, September 14.
The protest was held outside the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre, where the Liberal Democrats™ conference is due to be formally opened.
Campaigners called on delegates to support the anti-Trident amendment to the Defence Policy Paper.
This comes as recently Liberal Democrat Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander described the Trident nuclear weapons system as œthe UK™s last, unreformed bastion of Cold War thinking.”
œThe Liberal Democrats are unique in the three big Westminster parties in their clear-sighted appraisal of the archaic and irrelevant nature of Trident. But they appear to have blinkered themselves when it comes to the only sensible conclusion: follow the logic and scrap Trident,” said CND™s General Secretary, Kate Hudson.
Britain is pushing ahead with a Trident replacement plan that is estimated to cost the country more than £100 billion over the next 30 years.
However, critics believe the money spent on nuclear arms would be at the expense of public sector jobs and services whilst the country is struggling with austerity cuts.
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