OK AWOL,
Lets call it £30 billion for Trident, we have a £37 Billion hole, scrapping it fills a hell of a chunk of that hole.
Independent nuclear deterrent, against whom.
If we're worried about "The Islamic Bomb" worry about it but they have no credible delivery system to getvit to the UK so what exactly are we worrying about.
Lets say thay start to develop a delivery system to worry about, fine we've already got the technology we can respond to that threat quicker than they can develop it.
Ok so you don't have these issues where it's warm and sunny with a benevolent dicatorship but we do and we need to sort it and, unlike every political party in the country, I've suggested a way to fix the problem.
Won't happen as having a seat on the UN Security Council fills to big an ego need for politicians