"But Without The Warheads"

Jeremy Corbyn should stop trying to placate the likes of Sir Paul Kenny and John Woodcock with this kind of thing.

If the case for Trident is that it employs a certain trade union's members and a certain MP's constituents, then that trade union and that MP must be opposed even to multilateral nuclear disarmament. There is nothing to be said to, or by, people like that.

And that is the case, the only case, that they make. Corbyn is trying to reason with people who would not care if there were no defensive case for at all for Trident, as some of us would argue that there was not.

To them, that is not the question. It is all and only about their members' and constituents' jobs, to be protected at all costs.

Corbyn should not bother trying to reason with people like that. They are beyond it.