[NukeNet] Scotland: Rally against nuclear bomb replacement

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      Sunday Herald - 17 September 2006 
      Rally against nuclear bomb replacement
      By James Hamilton 


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      Anti-Trident campaigners, taking part in an awareness-raising peace trek, rallied in Glasgow yesterday and called on the government to "bin the bomb". 
      The Long Walk for Peace began on Thursday with anti-nuclear protesters setting off from the Faslane naval base on the Clyde. The group, including church and union leaders, is walking 85 miles to the Scottish parliament, where ministers will be asked to oppose any plans to replace the UK's Trident missiles. 

      Activists reached Glasgow on Friday evening and held a rally involving several hundred people in the city's George Square yesterday. Speakers at the gathering included anti-war campaigner Rose Gentle, whose soldier son Gordon was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq, Scottish Socialist Party leader Colin Fox and SNP deputy leader Nicola Sturgeon. 

      She called for the nuclear deterrent to be scrapped, saying there was no rational argument for spending taxpayers' money on new nuclear weapons. She said: "Nuclear weapons are a scar on Scotland and a threat to world peace. 

      "We should be ashamed to have them sited on our shores. Yet Scotland's First Minister has repeatedly failed to say whether he backs the replacement of the Trident nuclear missile system." 

      Money devoted to Trident would be better spent on changing Scotland for good, she argued. 

      At First Minister's Questions on Thursday, Jack McConnell said he had told MSPs earlier this year that the question of Trident replacement required serious debate and not a "knee-jerk reaction" from the Nationalists. 




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