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College Green vigil on day of Trident vote
Dozens of protesters gathered on College Green on Monday evening to demonstrate against Parliament’s decision to renew Trident.
Protesters held a giant cardboard cut out of the Trident missile, and many brought placards to express their opposition to the costly weapons system.
Hannah Tweddell, chair of Bristol Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, said: “It is inexcusable that the Government proposes to waste £205 billion of public money on new nuclear weapons at a time of ever-increasing pressure on front line health, education and welfare services.
“Trident is a weapons system that has no legitimate purpose. It is essentially a very dangerous status symbol, and its cost of £205 billion could transform our economy if spent wisely – it is enough money to install solar panels in every home in the UK, or to pay tuition fees for eight million students, or to build 120 new hospitals and employ 150,000 new nurses.”
Bristol MPs Kerry McCarthy and Karin Smyth voted in favour of the renewal. Bristol’s two other MPs Charlotte Leslie and Thangam Debbonaire did not vote.
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