CND - most impressive lobbying so far...

Campaigning organisations find election time useful. Their websites ask members and site-visitors to lobby election candidates in their area.

I've received several.

But so far it's Big-UP to CND.

CND members in Central Devon have contacted me three times more than any other campaign group.

But then, my early-80's memories of Greenham Common (that's me in the blue jeans and wellies), were of CND being highly effective - bringing coach-loads of women from all over the country to big mass-protest days at the base.

Here's what they're up to now - CND

And here's my response to their lobby -

“Trident” is a cold-war relic weapon. We’re post-cold-war. When we are still testing Welsh sheep for radiation a quarter of a century after Chernobyl it's not so much the mutually assured destruction that appals as mutually assured, world-wide DNA-mutating damage going down generations.

And isn't the fear now, not of immense bomb blasts destroying property as well as people, but antagonists resorting to mass irradiation? Maybe one day there will be stem cell techniques that can heal an irradiated body? Would that make it more or less likely that aggressive states or well-resourced dissidents would resort to nuclear threats / use?

President Obama is leading the way, pressing Russia for mutual "dramatic reductions" in regard to the process of multilateral nuclear disarmament. The Labour Party is also committed to multilateral disarmament. Joan Ruddock, ex-Chairperson of CND, was one among many rebels when the renewal of Trident came to the vote in Parliament. The scale of the anti-Trident rebellion will ensure that Parliamentary pressure to fully commit to multilateral disarmament stays strong. This is the best way to get rid of Trident.