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.
Are they? If not, why not?
That they employed certain trade unions' members and certain MPs' constituents was not considered a good enough reason to save great swaths of British industry.
It was not considered sufficient to save the last of the British coal industry, and it is not considered sufficient to save the last of the British steel industry.
Imagine if Jeremy Corbyn proposed spending this much public money on saving this few jobs. He does in fact propose spending almost incomparably less on saving steel. The reaction is one of derision.
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