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PEACE activists took to the streets of Wigan on Saturday to put Trident missile replacement firmly on the general election agenda.
They were joined by Wigan’s Green Party candidate Will Patterson.
Greater Manchester Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament chairman Philip Gilligan highlighted that May will be the last election before the final vote on Trident replacement due in 2016, at an estimated cost of £100 billion.
He said: “It is one which requires a higher level of debate than we are seeing at the moment.
“Senior military figures warn that the £100bn white elephant of Trident replacement does nothing to keep us safe.
How a blind commitment to squandering our overstretched national resources on an outdated weapon of mass destruction can be touted as being ‘strong on defence’ is beyond me.
“It’s time for the Conservatives and Labour to wake up to the huge public opposition to Trident.”
