Cameron Ignores Scotland Over Trident

Commenting on David Cameron's remarks about the SNP and replacing Trident Glasgow SNP MSP and anti-Trident campaigner, Bill Kidd said the Tory leader had learnt nothing about why his party had become so unpopular in Scotland.

Mr Kidd pointed out that a Trident replacement was opposed by a majority of MPs, the Scottish Parliament, civic Scotland and the Scottish public and any attempts to foist it on Scotland were anti-Scottish.

Sizewell Near Nuclear Disaster

The UK Government faces a catalogue of questions following the discovery through a freedom of information application that the Sizewell A nuclear power station came close to a serious nuclear disaster in June 2007.

SNP Westminster Energy spokesperson, Mike Weir MP, has tabled a series of parliamentary questions after a Channel 4 News investigation uncovered that it was only pure luck that a contractor noticed water leaking from the radioactive cooling pond

Vote SNP Against Trident and For Jobs

A vote for the SNP in the upcoming European elections will send a strong message that Scotland does not want money wasted on weapons of mass
destruction like Trident or its replacement, but spent on investing in jobs.

Labour Chair Exposes Their Lies

The Chair of the Scottish Labour Party has exposed Labour Leader Iain Gray and MSP Jackie Baillie's claims that there is a job benefit from Trident submarines as completely false.

On Question Time Iain Gray repeated Jackie Baillie's claim that Trident is good for employment. Labour Party Chair Claudia Beamish has authored a report exposing the wasteful cost of Trident weapons and the significant economic boost that would be generated by spending the resources elsewhere

Faslane Radioactive Leaks Utterly Damning

SNP Westminster Leader and Defence spokesperson, Angus Robertson MP, has described a disclosure by the Ministry of Defence under the Freedom of Information Act as “utterly damning” after it revealed a series of serious safety breaches involving repeated leaks of radioactive waste, broken pipes and waste tanks at its home base on the Clyde.

Trident No More

SNP MSP for Glasgow and anti-trident campaigner Bill Kidd has welcomed remarks made by the former deputy commander-in-chief of UK land forces, General Sir Hugh Beach that the UK's Trident missile system is no use and that no more money should be wasted on it.

The remarks made at a conference in Glasgow follow a previous intervention by a group of retired senior military officers, who branded the Trident system “completely useless” and challenged the renewal of the nuclear deterrent.