The government had decided to build a new generation of Trident missile carrying sub. It was always expensive & pointless, even in the era of the cold war, to have these: the UK government was never going to attack the USSR alone & the UK was never going to be a target apart from the US. They were, and remain, about no more than having bragging rights and a ticket to the big boys common room. Geeklawyer is a fan of boys toys, but there are limits of sanity and finance, and these breach it.
No. What got up Geeklawyer’s nose this time was, not cocaine but New Labour’s defence spokesman whining on the BBC about his critics. He blethered on a bit and Geeklawyer tuned out. His ears picked up when he heard this spineless votary say “ [blah blah] … The only people not entitled to an opinion are the government ..“.
Geeklawyer has talked before of government evolving into a dark beast which believes itself to be not the servant of the people but its co-equal with rights of its own. Since when, thought Geeklawyer, is the government ‘entitled‘ to anything? Entitlements encompass rights delivered by nature or law: government is an artifice of man. What rights it has are those we the public give it and the sole right we give it is merely the ability to execute the policies we agreed to in its electoral manifesto - it has no intrinsic ‘rights‘. When government thinks that it has rights it becomes a clash of the public’s rights versus its own; and you just know who’s gonna win that fucking battle!
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