People’s Ballot: NHS Not TRIDENT

Thanks to Sally for this short piece about the NHS v TRIDENT Abingdon People’s Ballot that took place on Monday. Sally said …
Stop Trident
We had a good morning, the market place was busy although the market itself seemed a bit thinner than usual.

The consensus of those who voted in our “people’s ballot” was to spend the £100 billion on Health and Education rather than on Trident….

Many people didn’t even know what Trident is, much less that we, the taxpayer, spend over £5000 per minute on it… Some people still seem to think we need it for “deterrence”. Although who it is supposed to “deter” and from doing what, is not clear.

Trident is the UK’s nuclear deterrent with missiles on 4 submarines. The next parliament could take the decision to replace it with an updated Trident.