Defence: money
Socialist Press1980 1980-01-30Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 4 →
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The Tory objection to the expense of providing a pill for every ill" does not extend to the huge expense of providing a bomb for every Communist. This is one area of public spending they are determined to increase.
While social services in Britain are pruned to the point of collapse, Defence Secretary Pym chose last week to announce an extravagant £5,000 million plan to modernise the British nuclear armoury with a new submarine-borne Trident missile system.
And £1,000 million has already been spent on an improved new warhead for the existing Polaris missiles. This warhead, developed under the last Labour government, is believed to contain a package of bombs, together with decoys, designed to fox radar systems.
Opposed
Only 50 Labourites opposed Callaghan's eager support for the modernisation . of these weapons, which are intended solely for use against the world's working class and the deformed and degenerated workers' states.
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