Submitted on Tuesday 16th March 2021
Rejected on Tuesday 23rd March 2021
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Rather than increasing Trident warheads, we should reduce the stockpile.
It was reported that the Government plans to increase the number of Trident warheads from 180 to 260. In these difficult economic times it is immoral to be spending money on weapons of mass destruction. We wish the Government to abandon the increase in the nuclear stockpile and instead reduce it.
This represents an escalation of the nuclear stockpile in times when the world should be reducing nuclear weapons. It is the first increase in many years and flies in the face of the concept of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons.The money spent on such weapons could be redeployed for the benefit of the British people, for example to give NHS staff the pay rises they deserve which it is said we cannot afford.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:
Don’t increase the cap on the UK’s stockpile of Nuclear Weapons: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/579991
Dispose of the UK's Nuclear Warheads and encourage other nations to do the same: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/574779
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