On some holiday resorts, you can pay for subterranean trips to get close up and personal with the sea life, or just a glass bottomed boat if you don't want to actually be under the water. Most of these 'submarine' vessels just have a submerged part where you appear to be under water, but it's actually a normal boat albeit with a transparent hull. I always shy away from these trips, usually when I see the exorbitant price.
Mind you, the new nuclear submarines being considered to replace the Trident system are a tad more expensive - they will set you back around £31 billion, although that is probably an underestimate, but you would get four of them. Total operating cost over their 30 year life is estimated at £205 billion.
Needless to say, there is some debate whether this represents value for money.
In the Labour party, Jeremy Corbyn is quite an outspoken anti-nuclear voter so he will bring quite a lot of his fellow MPs to vote against the renewal. He says he has campaigned for peace all his life, but it is an interesting argument that states that voting for a deterrent is actually voting for peace. I'm afraid this 'peace' thing is so far away from reality I struggle buy that line of thinking. Not that I'm for war, far from it, but we have to defend ourselves from all the nutters around the world at any one time, and who's to say what is around the corner?
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