Bruce Kent's Scrap Trident Tour comes to Exeter

Bruce Kent's Scrap Trident Tour reaches Exeter on Wednesday 3 April. He will speak at a public meeting, chaired by the Deputy Lord Mayor of Exeter, Councillor Percy Prowse, at Exeter Community Centre, St Davids Hill at 7.15pm.

A majority of the British public is opposed to replacement of the Trident nuclear missile system. Yet the leaders of the 3 main political parties continue to support the programme. So it falls to CND and other disarmament groups to articulate majority opinion and keep reminding the powerful of their minority status. Bruce Kent's tour aims to point out:-

the simple but strangely overlooked arithmetical connection between the proclaimed need for savage cuts in many areas of Government expenditure and the extra moneys being poured into nuclear weapons.

the immorality of possessing weapons of indiscriminate mass destruction and the hypocrisy in claiming that, while they enhance our security, possession of them by other nations would not enhance their security.

Britain's moral obligation to lobby globally and vigourously for the elimination of all nuclear weapons.

Exeter CND, the organiser of the Meeting, has invited local MPs to come and debate but unfortunately none can make it. We have therefore invited the main political parties in Exeter to come and defend their official views.

We hope and expect that many supporters of CNDs aims will come along. But we hope that supporters of Trident too will come and join the argument. They should not rely on the sheer inertia of the Trident renewal programme carrying it forward to a conclusion.

Bruce has been campaigning for CND since 1960. He was CND Chair and General Secretary from 1980 to 1990. He was Chair of War on Want from 1973 to 1976. He is Vice-President of CND, Pax Christi and the Movement for the Abolition of War.