Comments for Top Level Group http://toplevelgroup.org Top Level Group of UK Parliamentarians for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament & Non-Proliferation Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:20:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on European Group Statement on NATO Nuclear Weapons by NATO: fiddling with nuclear bombs while the planet burns | openDemocracy http://toplevelgroup.org/2010/09/29/europeangroupstatement/#comment-14 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 09:20:43 +0000 http://toplevelgroup.org/?p=1277#comment-14 [...] Schmidt and British Defence Secretaries Michael Ancram, Tom King and Malcolm Rifkind, endorsed a statement published by the European Leaders Network (ELN), coordinated by former Defence and Foreign Secretaries Des Browne and Margaret Beckett.  This [...]

]]> Comment on UK Reveals Nuclear Stockpile by paulbarasi http://toplevelgroup.org/2010/05/26/uk-reveals-nuclear-stockpile/#comment-9 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:56:16 +0000 http://toplevelgroup.org/?p=989#comment-9 Many people support the government’s policy of openness and transparency on our nuclear warhead stockpile but are wondering: why then has it been necessary to introduce EDM 359? Ten MPs so far have signed this motion – from all the main parties.

Why not allow full verification by independent inspectors on behalf of the international community? Again, so far, 98% in the Tridentvote referendum poll on this say that we should (with 2% undecided). Surely doing so would strengthen, rather than undermine, our case for other countries being inspected and dispel any suspicions that we have anything to hide?

]]> Comment on Commons Debates, Trident Value for Money Review – late June 2010 by paulbarasi http://toplevelgroup.org/in-parliament/debates/debates-in-2010/trident-value-for-money-review-debates-late-june-2010/#comment-8 Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:37:56 +0000 http://toplevelgroup.org/#comment-8 The PM says here that Britain should retain the nuclear deterrent and we should always keep that insurance policy against great danger. But the FCO website affirms “the Government’s commitment to multilateral nuclear disarmament”. William Hague’s statement (14/6) on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review Conference is actually titled “Working towards a world without nuclear weapons”.

It is confusing when the PM and Foreign Secretary totally disagree over what their line is, and it is hard not to conclude that the Government now has two different multilateral nuclear disarmament policies: one for and one against.

Is there an MP who will put down a PQ on this?

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