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From: jimr@hcrvx2.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Socialists
Message-ID: <2388@hcrvx2.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 14-Sep-86 16:40:14 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 14 16:40:14 1986
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Reply-To: jimr@hcrvx2.UUCP (Jim Robinson)
Organization: Human Computing Resources, Toronto
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Summary: 

In article <214@miduet.gec-mi-at.co.uk> adam@gec-mi-at.co.uk (Adam Quantrill) writes:
>In article <2383@hcrvx2.UUCP> jimr@hcrvx2.UUCP (Jim Robinson) writes:
>>In article <190@miduet.gec-mi-at.co.uk> adam@miduet (Adam Quantrill) writes:
>>>
>>>	I can't speak for the NDP but our beloved Labour party isn't 
>>>non-militaristic, on the contrary they would support a conventional army.
>>>They (quite rightly) just want to wash their hands of nuclear weapons.
>>
>>Question: are they for unilateral or multilateral disarmament? - there is
>>a big difference. 
>>
>>Also, would they do as our NDP say they would, and pull your country out
>>of NATO? 
>>
>>J.B. Robinson
>
>1: Yes and yes.
    ^^^
>2: No, and you don't have to be a nuclear power to be in NATO.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that the Labour party said it would
indeed toss Britain's nukes if it formed a government (probably the same 
place I read that it would decrease unemployment by massively expanding 
government services), however, I do not know whether they advocate such 
action for all western countries. If so, I would have to conclude that they
are an extremely naive lot since there would be no means of
defending the west against nuclear blackmail.

BTW I am quite aware that a country does not have to be a nuclear power
to be in NATO as demonstrated by Canada's membership.

J.B. Robinson

PS Would a Labour government reopen the uneconomical coal mines?