Labourlist column
My Labourlist column this week responds to David Miliband's article last week: http://labourlist.org/2012/02/david-miliband-risks-dividing-moderate-opinion-in-the-party/
posted by Luke Akehurst at 2:21 pm
Monday, February 06, 2012
About Me
- Name: Luke Akehurst
- Location: Oxford, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Labour Party activist since 1988 - firmly on the moderate wing of the party. Member of Labour’s NEC 2010-2012 and since 2020. National Secretary of Labour Students 1995-6. Parliamentary candidate for Aldershot (2001) and Castle Point (2005). Hackney Councillor (Chatham Ward) 2002-2014, Labour Group Chief Whip 2002-09, Chair of Health Scrutiny 2010-2014. Supporter of Europe, NATO/nuclear deterrence, Israel, electoral reform. Guardian reader. Dad. Oxford resident. Unite union member. Employment history as a Labour Party Organiser, Local Government Political Assistant, Director at a Public Affairs company. All views expressed in a personal capacity. The rest will become evident from reading the blog.
1 Comments:
Quite a good article by Luke.
Except:
"How about restating our commitment to NATO and to renewing our Trident strategic nuclear deterrent, so that we have a national security insurance policy in a dangerous world?"
Luke has inadvertently made the case for not having nuclear weapons. An 'insurance policy' does not prevent something from happening, does it?
If somebody has car insurance, does that mean that they will never crash? I don't think so!
Similarly, having nuclear weapons does not prevent us from being attacked.
In a recent Commons debate, Labour's Niok Brown said:
"The possession of an independent (sic) nuclear deterrent (sic) does not make us safer."
2:46 pm, February 08, 2012
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