If it were the case that “the purpose of the deterrent is that you don’t acquire to use it because you successfully deter” (Report,9 November), our chief of defence should examine the reason why other European countries, and such as Germany,acquire not been attacked. General Nicholas Houghton wants to waste £100bn on updating a nuclear relic from the cold war which can never be used without ensuring our own destruction. And how can he maintain that Britain was “letting down” its allies by not engaging in air strikes against Isis in Syria when the final thing the people of Syria need is more bombs? The only way to conclude this suffering is to put our conventional forces at the disposal of the UN as a peacekeeping force instead of the disposal of the US, as in the illegal invasion of Iraq.
Maria Eagle and the rest of the parliamentary Labour party should not only back their leader in his stand against this political interference from an army chief but also unite as an effective opposition to a Tory government leading us into a disastrous economic slump of 1930s proportions while simultaneously signing absent our democracy under the guise of trade treaties.[br]Margaret Phelps
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