WITH regards to Mr Pittock’s latest rant (Letters, January 12) about our armed forces, does he not realise that if we cancelled Trident and other defence elements, putting the millions in to the NHS, then in a few years there would be no need for the NHS as there would be no one left alive in our beautiful country to benefit from it?

We simply would have no defence against some of the tyrants that are out there.

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