The synthetic outrage over Emily Thornberry’s remarks emphasises the need to have a realistic debate approximately Britain’s defence policyWe need not waste much time on the synthetic outrage provoked at Monday night’s stormier than normal meeting of the parliamentary Labour party (PLP) over Emily Thornberry’s comparison between the Trident nuclear submarine fleet and the moment world war’s Spitfire. MPs are in a fractious ((adj.) troublesome or irritable) mood on both sides of the Corbyn divide. So the shadow home secretary,Andy Burnham, is giving way to defeatist talk when he says that it may be impossible to reconcile opposing views within Labour’s ranks on the nuclear deterrent. History says otherwise, and though the electorate may have to give Jeremy Corbyn a nudge,or even two.
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Source: theguardian.com