There are some decent arguments in favour of unilateral disarmament. So it’s a pity then that Carla Denyer did not make any of those when she appeared on LBC to give a car-crash interview earlier today. The Green co-leader decided that the best way to convince the British people to get rid of their Trident submarines at this election was to liken nuclear armageddon to, er, knife crime.
Host Lewis Goodall began by asking Denyer whether ‘We would be less of a target if we didn’t have nuclear weapons?’ pointing out that ‘Poland doesn’t have nuclear weapons, it’s still a target’. ‘I don’t think that the argument for a deterrent is very effective’ she retorted. ‘Maybe you’re right’ replied Goodall but ‘It’s a risk. You wouldn’t want to take a risk right now…. Surely the last thing that we should be doing, the last thing we should be doing, is taking a risk with our national security right now.’ It led to the following glorious conclusion between the pair:
Denyer: ‘The argument for having nuclear weapons only as a deterrent reminds me strongly of the argument that you tragically hear young people giving sometimes for why they carry a knife. They say they’re doing it to protect themselves, and they truly believe that. But the fact is that those who carry knives are more likely to be to be stabbed, sometimes by their own knife. Defending yourself, thinking that it’s a deterrent like that.’
Goodall: ‘We’re not going to nuke ourselves, are we?’
Denyer: ‘No. But somebody but but um, it makes us a target, as I say.’
Is Carla Denyer an agent of the deep state? Even the MoD would struggle to come up with a more effective advert for retaining ‘the bomb’.
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