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Wednesday, 28 April, 2010

Wishful thinking on Trident?

I was on BBC Radio Cumbria yesterday debating with my opposite numbers, during the interview John Woodcock tried to make a big thing of asking me to agree with him on the timetable for the Trident Successor.

Given that the Astute programme has been delayed by 4.5 years (9 months per boat for boats 2-7) and that the Successor timetable has slipped because the design wasn’t signed off in September 2009, to say that you can definitely stick with the original timetable, which assumed these two delays didn’t happen, in my view you are either engaging in wishful thinking or being dishonest.

I try to answer questions without doing either and that is why the best answer I can give is that the programmes are in a mess, we will sort it out and build the submarines with no gap.

This is, to me an honest answer, maybe it’s not the answer you want to hear, but I’d rather that than being accused of dishonesty or wishful thinking.

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