Labour Party Conference 2023
Labour should follow Welsh government and commit to nuclear weapon prohibition, fringe meeting hears
Photo: Egor Myznik / Creative Commons
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2023
LABOUR should follow the example of its government in Wales and commit to signing the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, Beth Winter told a packed CND fringe meeting today.
The Cynon Valley MP joined her colleague Bell Ribeiro-Addy in slamming the government’s warped priorities in committing to spend hundreds of billions on nuclear warheads at a time of soaring poverty.
The Senedd voted last year to back the UN treaty, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying the world needed to get serious about disarmament.
Fire Brigades Union vice-president Steve Wright pointed to the increase in extreme weather events including floods and wildfires, saying firefighters were being called out to more emergencies than ever but cuts had lengthened response times to their longest since the 1980s — yet rather than invest in dealing with the real security threat of climate change, governments insisted on ploughing money into ever more military spending instead.
CND chair Tom Unterrainer said the large attendance showed that despite Sir Keir Starmer’s attempt to suppress discussion of Labour’s militarist stance huge numbers of party members were still committed to nuclear disarmament.
Photo: Egor Myznik / Creative Commons
SUNDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2023
LABOUR should follow the example of its government in Wales and commit to signing the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, Beth Winter told a packed CND fringe meeting today.
The Cynon Valley MP joined her colleague Bell Ribeiro-Addy in slamming the government’s warped priorities in committing to spend hundreds of billions on nuclear warheads at a time of soaring poverty.
The Senedd voted last year to back the UN treaty, with First Minister Mark Drakeford saying the world needed to get serious about disarmament.
Fire Brigades Union vice-president Steve Wright pointed to the increase in extreme weather events including floods and wildfires, saying firefighters were being called out to more emergencies than ever but cuts had lengthened response times to their longest since the 1980s — yet rather than invest in dealing with the real security threat of climate change, governments insisted on ploughing money into ever more military spending instead.
CND chair Tom Unterrainer said the large attendance showed that despite Sir Keir Starmer’s attempt to suppress discussion of Labour’s militarist stance huge numbers of party members were still committed to nuclear disarmament.
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