Friend speaks out at ‘Bairns not Bombs’
Nuala Watt spoke at the 'Bairns not Bombs' demonstration in Glasgow
by Tara Craig
10th April 2015
Quaker Disability campaigner Nuala Watt took to the stage at the ‘Bairns not Bombs’ demonstration in Glasgow on Saturday 4 April.
Nuala argued that the welfare state is a form of ‘defence’ for vulnerable people and that the government’s ‘defence’ priorities are all wrong.
‘£12bn worth of cuts isn’t much in terms of £100bn for Trident, but it is a lot of rent/food/heating’, she told the Friend.
‘Money should be redirected towards people who need defence from real and immediate poverty, rather than preventing a hypothetical Armageddon’.
Nuala shared a stage with Nicola Sturgeon, leader of the Scottish Nationalist Party. A photo of Nicola greeting Nuala appeared on the cover of last Sunday’s Observer.
