From the office of the proprietor
Munguin Towers,
Munguin Rise,
Munguinstown,
SCOTLAND
Dear the Labour Party of Great Britain,
I was just reading a Wings over Scotland story about your voting today on the issue of Trident Renewal, of which, incidentally, I feel you should be heartily ashamed.
I noticed that, with his usual aplomb, Stuart was able to provide a link to the 2010 Labour manifesto "A future fair for all" in which you said that you were committed to maintaining Britain's independent nuclear deterrent.
I was wondering if any of you could explain to me in what way a weapons system which is joined at the hip to America's system and which cannot be used with a) permission, and b) the physical passing of the firing codes from the Pentagon to the submarine commander, could be called "independent".
You might also like to comment upon the fact that the Scottish Conference, according to Neil Findlay, voted against the retention of the weapons of mass destruction. Given the alleged ''independent (not a branch office at all) nature'' of the Scottish party, (according to what you said when Iain Gray was leader, again when Johann Lamont was leader and now that Jim Murphy is leader), is it not strange that this resolution has been discarded. Particularly given that the weapons are based not 20 miles from the centre of Labour's heartlands...Glasgow.
Kind regards
Munguin
Proprietor: Munguin's Republic.
PS: Take my advice and tell that dimwit Donohoe, if he can't say anything that isn't completely and laughably ridiculous, or that doesn't even remotely make sense, then he'd be better to shut up and just take the money.
He really made a fool of himself tonight.
(Dictated by Munguin, signed in his absence by TPW.)
