UK’s PM Theresa May: The Radiant Lady

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   mino on July 19, 2016 at 9:09 am

   It is simpler than you think–it subsidizes their aging nuclear plant and it spends the money at home that NATO obligates.

   Easy vote.

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   esquimaux on July 19, 2016 at 1:19 pm

   i see nothing unbelievable or even worthy of criticism. If the government is in favor of keeping nukes, then she has to say of course she’d use them if necessary.

   for unbelievable there’s the Blairites “Labour’s historic position in support “. My memory is that Labour’s historic position is deeply divided and Corbyn is by no means the only lifelong disarmer. But New Labour is staunchly pro-war.

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     Oui on July 19, 2016 at 2:22 pm

     Not meant to be used as a weapon of choice! Theresa May is so outdated
     it’s unbelievable … thinking of HRC and gap with young people. Unfit to lead!

     Jeremy Corbyn said:

     “I am opposed to the use of nuclear weapons. I am opposed to the holding
     of nuclear weapons. I want to see a nuclear-free world. I believe it is possible.”

     American Nuclear Strategy: The Case for a Minimal-Deterrence Policy

     Because of the vast and indiscriminate destructive power of nuclear weapons, there is a general consensus that their sole legitimate purpose is to deter the use of weapons of mass destruction by potential enemies; and that their use in war should be initiated only as a last resort to prevent the military defeat of the nation or an ally. These weapons clearly are irrelevant to current international security challenges such as nonstate terrorist expansion in Iraq and Syria, the Ebola virus in Africa or even Russian aggression in Ukraine.

     ○ How should India respond to Pakistan’s tactical nuclear weapons?

     President Obama Will Bring a Mixed Nuclear Message to Hiroshima

     It wasn’t supposed to be this way.

     “As the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon, the United States has a moral responsibility to act,” he told an audience in Prague on April 5, 2009. “So today, I state clearly and with conviction America’s commitment to seek the peace and security of a world without nuclear weapons.” Six months later, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded Obama its annual peace prize, saying it had “attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons.”

     Seven years later, the song remains the same.

     Barack Obama says memory of Hiroshima ‘must never fade’  

     In recent times (21st century) advocates for the use of nukes as tactical weapon in a war of choice: Ariel Sharon (Israel), George Bush (US), Dick Cheney (US), Binyamin Netanyahu (Israel), Kim Jong-un (NK), Avigdor Lieberman (Israel), Sheldon Adelson (private person funds GOP and Netanyahu)  and Theresa May (UK)

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     Hiroshima and Nagasaki never again (Photo credit: Getty Images)

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       mino on July 19, 2016 at 2:26 pm

       Standing armies are unaffordable.  Saw a piece this morning on how our micro-aggression with nukes in eastern Europe is designed to force that expense on Putin.  And failing.

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       esquimaux on July 19, 2016 at 3:25 pm

       >>advocates for the use of nukes as tactical weapon in a war of choice

       I don’t see that kind of language in her statement, at least not what’s quoted in the Guardian link. She says she’d be willing to use them, in some completely unspecified situation. No British or French or American leader has ever said anything different since they got nukes.

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   Oui on August 2, 2016 at 2:34 am

   Hey, you all lost your job as I miscalculated the result of an EU referendum … I can still reward you for a job well done to be my supporter until the very end … Of course, did you fund the Tory party during my campaign, I won’t forget. It beholds her majesty the Queen to bestow a knighhood for your achievements for the country, the “United” Kingdom.

   Knighthoods a ‘light’ way for Cameron to repay debts, says ex-minister | The Guardian |

   Giving honours such as knighthoods to allies who have supported the prime minister is a “relatively light” way of paying off debts of honour built up while in government, a former minister and aide to David Cameron has said.

   Theresa May is facing calls to block honours for No 10 “cronies” after a leaked list revealed that her predecessor has requested gongs for party donors, pro-EU campaigners and political aides in his resignation honours list.

   But Desmond Swayne, a former international development minister who also served as a parliamentary aide to Cameron, dismissed the row over the list.

   “Over a period of government, particularly a difficult government in a coalition, a prime minister has to cajole and get the support of a number of people and he builds up a debt of honour and I think that frankly, an honours list is a relatively light way of paying it off,” Swayne told the Westminster Hour on BBC Radio 4.

   …
   One of the most controversial knighthoods proposed on the list is for Ian Taylor, an oil executive who gave almost £1m to the Conservatives in the past 18 months and helped fund the campaigns against Scottish independence and in favour of the EU. Andrew Cook, an engineering businessman who donated the use of a private jet to Cameron before the 2010 election and gave about £250,000 to the remain campaign, was also put forward for a knighthood.

   According to the leak, Cameron recommended awards for more than 20 Downing Street 10 advisers and staff and knighthoods for the pro-EU cabinet ministers Philip Hammond, Michael Fallon, Patrick McLoughlin and David Lidington. George Osborne, Cameron’s closest political friend, who lost his job as chancellor after helping run the unsuccessful remain campaign, was put forward to become a companion of honour.

   Theresa May refuses to block Cameron’s ‘cronies’ honours list