“100 signatures ? Wow, I'm impressed - where did they collect that many - at one of their tea parties ? Haven't seen or heard of them going out in the streets facing Joe Public. Bit safer than facing the MoD Plod and the Old Bill come the "day of disruption" methinks.”

“Well done PJPlym - nicely pointed out - odd that CND should be protesting AGAINST decommissioning Nuke boats!! But in practical terms, these boats will be decommissioned somewhere, and it won't be in the wilds unless the protestors wish to foot the multi-£M bill for the new facilities. So my vote is for Plymouth, which has been handling nuclear refits for decades antyway, and needs the work badly. Where there's muck there's money, and I'd rather see it coming Plymouth's way, despite the (remote) risks. I imagine that IF there ARE any local protestors, they will mostly already be in a job?”

“I¿d be happy if you stopped talking tripe Wrecker. Apart from the wording of your blog, fallout is a by product of a nuclear explosion, in fact nuclear weapons are likely to be detonated some several thousand feet to produce such fallout. Nuclear reactors on the other hand, by their design, not by any safety device, cannot explode like a weapon. I suppose with a massive amount of bad luck and bad management, (Not something these Navy chaps are famous for), if someone stole the control rods, and the sea at the same time, a reactor might get hot enough to melt, but I think the odds are against such a catastrophe.

The reason the surface fleet has moved to Portsmouth, is a result of a conversation between Bob Ainsworth and Paul Lambert that I suspect went something like this:-

¿Er you know Bob, we need an answer on these carriers, got to begin work you know¿. ¿Ah yes Paul, I was just wondering where we should base our votes, I mean boats, those Janners don¿t really need them, just like they didn¿t need the Nimrods, Harriers, the JSF, or those damn submarines¿..until after they¿ve been scrapped of course! We¿ll give them¿..er¿.some Marines. That should make up for it¿. ¿Jolly good Bob, now how about some planes for these carriers¿. ¿Ah yes Paul, I¿d been meaning to talk to you about that¿..¿

Incidentally I¿m a visitor to Halifax, Canada, which also hosted HMS Torbay in the eighties, a nuclear powered submarine, and I leave within twenty miles of the dockyard, and served on submarines for nearly ten years. I don¿t have two heads, or look like the ready brek man.”

“It's always laughable to see the uneducated comments of those who want to see the subs taken away.”

“Find that comment typical from someone who does not live with it day in and day out perhaps her Majesty would not mind it if we stored all the Nuclear Reactor cores in the grounds of Balmoral, after all it is her Government that is Imposing this S**t on us, or perhaps Dave wouldn't mind it being stored in Halifax”