I must say something in response to the fascist onslaught:) from NewLabour/USDemocratRepublicanPartyofEngland.
There is a contention that the Welfare State is "not affordable" but Trident is.
Even disregarding Trident, it is a simple lie to say that any kind of welfare state cannot be afforded.
I repeat that the best solution is to give everyone a basic income and then people could be free to do the work that needed to be done.
The view that there should be a basic income for all was also the view of Eric Fromm, one of the foremost social philosophers of the past hundred years.
Regarding Trident: apart from it being morally wrong, far too expensive, totally unnecessary, and militarily useless: there is also no one at all out there who is a threat to us.
Nuclear weapons are not a deterrent anyway.