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Protest outside Westminister Abbey 03/05/19


Bromley peace campaigners joined 300 others in a protest outside Westminster Abbey in London on Friday 3rd May at 11 am. The campaigners like 194 members of the clergy objected to the thanksgiving service for the ‘UK’s deterrent at Sea’ namely our nuclear weapons.  Members of the clergy had written to the Dean of Westminster urging him to cancel the service - which was arranged by the recently sacked defence secretary Gavin Williamson- because it is against the Christian ethos to give thanks and prayers to weapons of mass destruction.


The secretary of Bromley Borough CND said “let me make it absolutely clear we have nothing against the brave men and women of the Royal Navy. I myself come from a naval family. But we are opposed to the glorification of nuclear weapons, especially as the UK is a signatory of the Non Proliferation Treaty under which we should be actively getting rid of our nuclear arsenal.

 In 2002 in the run up to the Iraq war, Geoff Hoon former Defence Secretary under the blair government had threatened to use nuclear weapons against the non nuclear country. “It does not bear thinking about the consequences of such an action that would have brought about terrible destruction and triggered a nuclear winter for us all” added Ms Garrett.

CND believes that funds the British government intends to use to replace Trident nuclear arsenal (estimated to be £30 billion) should be spent on public services such as schools and hospitals.


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