He is not an idiot.
£100,000,000,000. Is that what 100 billion looks like?
On a weapon designed to replace like for like another weapon from another time - the long gone cold war.
Far from an idiot to bring this matter to our attention.
Wish we could have a national debate about it, but we wont even have a nation soon, the way we are going.UK is rapidly splitting apart.
We actually cant use Trident without American permission....its not independent and neither would its replacement be. America is stringing us along.
Money.
We haven't even got white lines painted correctly on the roads anymore in the county I live in. The whole infrastructure looks increasingly shot.
Our local Govt. budget is shot.
Not to mention the flood damage....the future with that alone.... Our national debt. Our increasing national overdraft....
Lots and lots of better ways to spend this money (which we haven't got).
Get rid, don't replace.