Personally I would prefer that we ditch Trident. There are more useful things we could do with that money.

However I don't believe that is going to happen.

Why is disarmament not a campaign issue? Because most people are not interested. Increasingly I hear people saying that they feel Britain must keep, or upgrade, it's nuclear arsenal as a defence against Russia. A big change from the last election where most people I talked to seemed to be ambivalent.

nuclear arsenal as a defence against Russia.

I've heard this as a comment on my posts elsewhere. It seems to me that it only takes a moment's thought to realise it's completely absurd as an argument.

I'm more disturbed by the apathy and lack of interest. And it's not just disarmament, but a whole range of political issues that were once hugely important. I feel quite strongly that this is a result of the Blair government's reaction to the Afghanistan and Iraq demonstrations. It was made very clear to us that the politicians would discount, downplay and ultimately ignore popular sentiment. That leads to a feeling that there's no point in arguing back because they'll simply ignore us. This is especially true of things like Trident, Cruise missiles (remember those?), foreign wars and so on. So why bother.

Rhodes "Making of the Atomic Bomb" was a masterpiece