Jeremy Corbyn to attend anti-nuclear weapons march
Source: Guardian
Labour leader will join leaders of the SNP, Greens and Plaid Cymru on CND protest in London, as party remains split over Trident
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is planning to attend a march in London against nuclear weapons at the weekend, alongside the SNP’s Nicola Sturgeon, Plaid Cymru’s Leanne Wood and Caroline Lucas of the Green party.
Party sources confirmed Corbyn was still intending to go to the march organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament on Saturday, while Labour is embroiled in an internal debate about whether to drop support for a continuous at-sea nuclear deterrent.
Sturgeon, Wood and Lucas have jointly written for the Guardian before the event saying Saturday will be a day to “put party allegiances aside and march together for a Britain free from nuclear weapons”.
They wrote: “Replacing Trident is neither necessary nor sensible. The evidence is stacked against spending billions of pounds on these exceptionally dangerous weapons. They won’t make us safer.
“The Westminster parliament will soon choose whether to join the vast majority of nuclear-free nations by moving on from Trident. It would be bold for Britain to ditch this weapons system, but it would be the right thing to do. We are uniting to march together for that very cause – we hope you’ll join us.”
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Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/25/jeremy-corbyn-anti-nuclear-weapons-march-labour-cnd
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...is protesting against his own defense policy! 