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The Where's Waldo of BushCo.

i like the new spiky green and yellow skeleton sambista suits! and it's nice to see grey london skies from the antipodes.
nice one to all of you for bothering.

THis is the s***e email that the Gov sent out in esponse to the 10 Downing St petition on
TRident....

(ps My MP,is a dastardly Tory (M.Howard), though I tried to get him to at least vote for a deferral, he tetchily said there had been enough consulting and that the today's debate was enough, so will vote fully for it as previously advised........ anyone have some garlic & a wooden stake avail pls ??)


E-petition: Response from Margaret Beckett and Des Browne
The e-petition asking the Prime Minister to "champion the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, by not replacing the Trident nuclear weapons system" has now closed. This is an email response from the Foreign Secretary, Margaret Beckett, and the Defence Secretary, Des Browne.

Thank you for signing an e-petition on the 10 Downing Street website, in which you asked that the UK reconsider replacing the Trident nuclear weapons system, and instead champion the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

We believe the NPT continues to offer the best hope of achieving the goal we all share - a world free from nuclear weapons. But deciding to maintain our deterrent is completely consistent with the NPT, and will not stop us playing a leading role in international efforts on non-proliferation and disarmament.

We know the British people want us to lead by example - we already do, and we intend to carry on doing so. Our weapons stockpile is the smallest of any recognised nuclear weapons state, less than 1% of the world total. We are the only recognised nuclear weapons state to have reduced our deterrent to a single submarine-based system. As part of the decision Parliament is voting on this week, we plan to reduce our stockpile even further - dismantling around 40 more warheads, or 20% of our remaining stockpile.

We are leading the way on non-proliferation and disarmament. We led international efforts on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. We continue to work hard for the immediate start of negotiations on a Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty. Kim Howells, Foreign Office Minister, recently attended the Geneva Conference on Disarmament to urge faster progress and re-energise multilateral negotiations.

We realise that some would like us to go further than this. But it just isn't realistic to think that if we decided to let our deterrent lapse, or even completely disarm unilaterally tomorrow, this would make any difference to the efforts of countries like Iran and North Korea to acquire a nuclear capability. We believe in total nuclear disarmament - but multilateral rather than unilateral disarmament. We face an increasingly uncertain world. Given that we cannot expect others' nuclear weapons to disappear for the forseeable future, the question we face is: should we retain them, to deter others from using them against us? Are we prepared to tolerate a world in which countries like ours lay down their nuclear weapons first, leaving extremist or unstable countries to threaten the rest of the world or hold it to ransom?

Any decision involving nuclear weapons is a difficult one, with strong views on all sides. We respect these views and believe it is important to have a full debate. But, as we said in the White Paper, we believe the plans we are asking Parliament to endorse strike the right balance between our commitment to a world in which there is no place for nuclear weapons, and our responsibilities to protect the current and future citizens of the UK.
Further information
The Prime Minister outlined plans for the future of Trident in a Parliamentary statement on 4 December 2006.
 http://www.pm.gov.uk/output/Page10532.asp

Between 4 December 2006 and 1 March 2007 the MOD received 838 letters in response to the White Paper on the future of the UK's nuclear deterrent. Read public responses on the MOD website

If you would like to opt out of receiving further mail on this or any other petitions you signed, please email  optout@petitions.pm.gov.uk
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you should not forget that e.g. the Irani government is sexist, homophobic and antisemitic!!

we should not forget that the Irani government is sexist, homophobic and antisemitic. Solidarity with the oppositional movement!

i feel if wed mind our own business and let other countries sort thier own problems out wed be safer in our beds america /brittain have to cause unessasery blood shed/iraq there was no war thier own generals had handed over the arms /tanks aircraft /so all we had too do was wait till the insurgents had no spirit /.no the americans /us had to make a show of strengh blast innocent women children animals as an ego boost brave are we not /now look at the situation we are our own enamies how many armies are out thier /weve put all theese other countries at risk by backing us /be hoest its only 4 the oil /or wed have been in palastine /africa againtst magarbee /why mot no oil no gains so we let blood baths go on .pakistan strang how that woman returns to stir things up probally our and american influance /to make out it was terrorism /we are the problem weve started it including ireland .over the years weve plundred others .and said it was 4 god listen to joan baez song with god on our side .its true word 4 word /.peter ambler derby