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Plaid leader addresses ‘Stop Trident’ rally

Leanne Wood: With NIcola Sturgeon and Caroline Lucas at Saturday’s ‘Stop Trident’ march
Leanne Wood: With Nicola Sturgeon and Caroline Lucas at Saturday’s ‘Stop Trident’ march

THE LEADER of Plaid Cymru condemned renewing the UK’s nuclear defence system as a ‘disgrace.’

Leanne Wood was addressing a ‘Stop Trident’ rally in London on Saturday (Feb 27). The rally was planned ahead of a parliamentary vote, scheduled for 2016, in which MPs will decide whether or not they support renewing the UK’s fleet of nuclear warheads at a cost of more than £100 billion.

Ms Wood condemned the multi-billion expenditure during a time of austerity and growing inequality as “a disgrace”, and called for nuclear weapons to be “thrown into the dustbin of history.”

“The world has always been and continues to be an unstable and unpredictable place,” she said.

“But there are some values that endure through peace or war, through stability or uncertainty.

“Among those principles is that it is never, ever justifiable to unleash weapons of mass destruction on any population, under any circumstances.

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“Nuclear weapons should be thrown into the dustbin of history.

“When food bank use is at a record high, when the gap between the richest and the poorest is at its widest, when our NHS needs ever greater investment, it is a disgrace that £100 billion and more will be diverted to nuclear weapons that no one should want and no one should ever use.

“This issue is bigger than any one political party. It is bigger than any one government and it is bigger than any one country.

“Just as war is a human-made construct, so too are weapons of mass destruction.

“It is the will of humanity that will secure their abolition.”

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