Greens spoof Vote Leave bus

 

To highlight their united opposition to nuclear weapons, the Green Party unfurled a banner the infamous and misleading NHS ‘battle bus’ deployed by Vote Leave campaigners.
MPs will today vote on renewing the UK's nuclear weapons system, a project set to cost upwards of £100 billion. The Green Party has consistently argued against replacing Trident, arguing that nuclear weapons make the UK less safe and that the money could be better spent elsewhere.

Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, will be voting against its replacement tonight and has urged other MPs to follow her lead:

“All MPs must consider whether continued possession of these weapons of mass destruction is the best use of national resources. They meet none of our key security challenges and are themselves vulnerable to new technological threats. This government’s national security strategy has identified terrorism, climate change, pandemics and cyber warfare as the tier-one threats we face today. Not only does Trident have nothing to offer in countering those threats, it sucks vast amounts of money away from dealing with them.

“I would urge MPs to vote against Trident today. These weapons are a cold war relic that do nothing to keep us safe, and divert resources away from where they’re really needed.”