{"id":256684,"date":"2016-07-18T21:18:40","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T21:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/may-says-ready-to-allow-nuclear-strike-causing-mass-loss-of-life\/"},"modified":"2016-07-18T21:18:40","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T21:18:40","slug":"may-says-ready-to-allow-nuclear-strike-causing-mass-loss-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/may-says-ready-to-allow-nuclear-strike-causing-mass-loss-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"May says ready to allow nuclear strike causing mass loss of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"86\">\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>British Prime Minister Theresa May says she would be ready to allow a nuclear strike that can result in the deaths of 100,000 people.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">May made the inflammatory\u00a0remarks on\u00a0Monday\u00a0during\u00a0a debate on whether to renew the country&#8217;s Trident nuclear deterrent. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">Scottish National Party (SNP)<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>MP George Kerevan intervened in her opening speech, asking, \u201cIs she personally prepared to authorize a nuclear strike that can kill 100,000 innocent men, women and children?\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u201cYes,\u201d May said, adding \u201cI have to say to the honorable gentleman the whole point of a deterrent is that our enemies need to know that we would be prepared to use it, unlike some suggestions that we could have a deterrent but not actually be willing to use it, which seem to come from the Labour party frontbench.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">She expressed sadness at the Green Party and some members of the Labour party who she said appear to be the &#8220;first to defend the country\u2019s enemies.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">She described it as&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2016\/07\/18\/475822\/UK-Theresa-May-nuclear-program-Trident\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British Prime Minister Theresa May says she would be ready to allow a nuclear strike that can result in the deaths of 100,000 people. May made the inflammatory\u00a0remarks on\u00a0Monday\u00a0during\u00a0a debate on whether to renew the country&#8217;s Trident nuclear deterrent. Scottish National Party (SNP)\u00a0MP George Kerevan intervened in her opening speech, asking, \u201cIs she personally prepared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-256684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}