SCOTLAND: Parliamentarian caught in submarine

Scottish Socialist Party parliamentarian Carolyn Leckie was ejected from parliament's First Minister's Questions session on March 10, when she refused to put down a poster reading "Rosie Kane is not at FMQs because she discovered WMDs". At the time, Kane, also an SSP parliamentarian, was embedded in an eight-metre model of a Trident submarine that was blocking one of Scotland's biggest roads. The Trident Ploughshares, who organised the protest, pointed out that the police's easy dismantling of the model showed how easy it was to dismantle submarines if the political will was there. Kane explained from the submarine that she was representing the views of the 70% of Scots who wanted the subs destroyed before they could kill. "Until we get the powers to do something about it ourselves, we will do something on the streets", she said.

From Green Left Weekly, March 16, 2005.

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