MARGARET Thatcher and company, along Bill Rodgers and his friends, say we need nuclear weapons to defend our democratic way of life. Yet the 'Mother of Parliaments' did not have a single discussion on nuclear weapons from 1964 to 1980.
Not that nothing was happening in those years; frantic ing place, and Britain itself Won steadily lacicasing military expenditure.
The last Labour government actually boosted military commitment in real terms by cent in response to a request In 1973, Tory premier Edward Heath personally authorised the Chevaline' This modernising the nuclear warheads on Britain's Polaris missiles. When Heath was swept out of office in 1974, Labour inherited the programme.
Later Callaghan, Healey, Owen, and Mulley together and agreed to sancTHE Home Office planners that a nuclear attack on Britain today would involve ut 19,000 equivalent to about bombs of the type dropped on nosuma bomb killed 888T people.
Women had still birthsand thousands of people were driven mad were at least 6,500 A-Bomb orphans.
Socialist Challenge 27 November 1980 will permit them to shoot, to death.
Defence Secretary Francis Pym in the cockpit of a Tornado fighter tion Chevaline at a cost of one thousand million This was a decision fiance of policy so no one told Cabinet, the House of Commons, the Labour ecutive, or the British people The money spent was hid den from public view by civil servants performing patriotic duty got circles they call it fiddling the books.
Parliament had no more missiles. decision locate this weapon in Britain Brussels 24 January 1980 a hapless House of Commons was informed of NATO's ore-Xmas gift and first time, of the Chevaline program old old Sunday teacher used God works it strange and insist mysterious ways'• So, sumably, does parliamentary democracy; defence volves measures including the sup pression of facts.
As the Tory Euro-MP, Mr ON THIS page BOB PENNINGTON shows how the ruling class defends democracy with the aid of nuclear weapons, and how draconian laws undemocratic people who object to being fried pounds. in deLabour out of hand, those says, He also looks at the 'Arms Race' and insists that all the evidence shows that the USA has led that 'contest' from pillar to post. As Pennington no sane bookie would quote you odds against the US winning.
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during Clearly you cannot have tnese people causing trouble . so the state has tiven warning' itself the power to take over all news services.
In the last 48 to 24 hours , the power over to local commissioners, them dictatorial authority, including the right to execute people.
The regional authorities operate through the police and military to make sure that the local population does its democratic duty. If neea arises. they will resort to weapons.
measures are designed to make sure that can't take against the threat of a nuclear Rio se mabie to vent theil if a war does take when they emerge from theil Of course the people who will run the news services, and the commissioners who will hand out the death sentences, will not be elected. These lastNo comment 'HYSTERICAL exchanges гелисси communee l › a shambles, said Mr Bob Tufton veteran of two world wars.
'I told the meeting that it was our job to explode the mvin inet ine country would • destroyed in a nuclear calculations • population Suffolk would survive.
"The started when Miss Flitch said tha no provision had been made for chemical toilets She reckoned need about 8000 chemical toilet:
This produced some rent une norme way jeering from the defeatist element on the one of whom asked what we would do when 100,000 con taminute. Londoner pourea ,our village. I said that this Jigure most unreliable considerin Probable ratality nule they would be shot.
'Bob Tufton lunatic. said Mr Georg Williams councillor 'What we need is a one-day survival semina But we could not anything because all plans are secret • From the 'Sussex ExApril Quoted Christopher Logue in 'Private Eye ditch defenders of democracy will be upper class thugs, ap. pointed by the rulng class and responsible to the ruling Cas cult The only choice we wil have - it we allow them to have their way. — will be to be blown to smithereens nuclear war or, if we survive that, to be shot by some stateappointed killer for protesting too hard about our fate.
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was taken at a NATO meeting 1979. ON