Bill Kidd MSP has today reiterated the need for the removal of Trident, the UK’s Nuclear Missile System, from the banks of the Clyde and for its proposed replacement to be scrapped immediately.

Kidd, who earlier this week addressed the United Nations on the issue, made the calls after a Sunday Newspaper revealed that the Faslane Nuclear Base on the Clyde had been “plagued by nuclear accidents, radioactive contamination and fires over the last two years”.

Glasgow MSP Bill Kidd said: "These revelations are shocking and will be of huge concern to the public.

“The Scottish Parliament, civic Scotland and the people of Scotland have repeatedly made it clear that they don’t want these weapons of mass destruction, but these revelations expose the inherent dangers and the risks to the public having these obscene weapons based on the Clyde entails.

“It just further underlines the need to rid Scotland of these terrible indiscriminatory weapons as soon as possible. Scotland is facing cuts from Westminster that will threaten jobs and public services, instead let’s cut the things that we don’t want nor need like Trident and its planned replacement, and invest in the things that really matter to people, like education, health, and policing.

“Trident will cost the cost the public £100 Billion over its lifetime. Why don’t we spend that money on jobs, on our children’s education and on our NHS?

“Anyway that you look at it; on moral, economic or political grounds, renewal of these weapons of mass destruction is untenable.

“Our message to the Westminster is clear, Scotland doesn’t need nuclear weapons and doesn’t want them. We should be focusing on protecting jobs, not spending disgusting amounts of money during a difficult economic period on obsolete and destructive nuclear weapons."

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The news story on Trident’s ‘safety incidents’ can be found here.