Today’s Trident debate in the Commons made for a lively affair, as the SNP made their case for the government to veto plans to renew the nuclear deterrent. Not that they were keen on any other parties having their say during the event, with Labour’s John Woodcock and Jamie Reed struggling to find an opportunity to have their voice heard.
When Woodcock — who is fiercely pro-Trident — did get the chance to speak he didn’t mince his words, calling the SNP ‘robots’:
‘You see, I would have been happy to take every single one of you robots in getting your instruction, I would have been happy but the thing is Madame Deputy Speaker that the proposal of your motion refuse point blank to take me so I’m not taking any single one of you.’
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The SNP did not take kindly to the comments, with John Nicolson putting forward a point of order.
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