{"id":234,"date":"2016-07-19T10:56:15","date_gmt":"2016-07-19T09:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/?p=234"},"modified":"2017-04-06T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T16:48:09","slug":"trident-renewal-july-19th-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"Trident renewal July 19th 2016."},"content":{"rendered":"

The House of Commons has backed the renewal of the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons system by 472 votes to 117.<\/span>
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HMS Victorious on exercise.<\/p>\n

(Image source: UK Ministry of Defence - defenceimagery.mod.uk, OGL<\/a>)<\/span><\/em><\/pre>\n
“Although Labour MPs were given a free vote, many used the occasion to attack Mr Corbyn”<\/p>\n
(Opinion:\u00a0Disgraceful, it’s too important an issue to allow this kind of back-stabbing.<\/em><\/p>\n
Why can’t we keep our subs up to date, and\u00a0fill them with\u00a0UK made cruise type missiles? These can be fitted with mini nukes, but usually conventional warheads. This way, when a country is messing with us, we can throw a few to them, with a warning… If we are likely to use them, it would be much more of a deterrent. And literally, not the end of the world…? Also we wouldn’t have to take a knee to the good ol’ U. S. of A.! Just a thought, sadly something that our M.P.’s seem to be unable to do.)<\/em><\/p>\n
(Source: BBC)<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n
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The House of Commons has backed the renewal of the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons system by 472 votes to 117. HMS Victorious on exercise. (Image source: UK Ministry of Defence – defenceimagery.mod.uk, OGL) “Although Labour MPs were given a free vote, many used the occasion to attack Mr Corbyn” (Opinion:\u00a0Disgraceful, it’s too important an issue … Continue reading Trident renewal July 19th 2016.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ZcXa-3M","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"http:\/\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.skysurfer.uk\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}