SCRATCH a liberal and find an imperialist. After decades in which the Liberal Democrat Party — and before that the Liberal Party — was as happily wedded to Britain’s so-called “independent” nuclear deterrent as was, and is, Labour.Scratch a British imperialist and you find a US poodle. Britain’s nuclear strike force of now ageing submarines carries nuclear missiles that are built and serviced in the US and subject to a communications and launch regime effectively under the control of Washington.

SCRATCH a liberal and find an imperialist. After decades in which the Liberal Democrat Party — and before that the Liberal Party — was as happily wedded to Britain’s so-called “independent” nuclear deterrent as was, and is, Labour.

Scratch a British imperialist and you find a US poodle. Britain’s nuclear strike force of now ageing submarines carries nuclear missiles that are built and serviced in the US and subject to a communications and launch regime effectively under the control of Washington.

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