When two tribes go to war, one is all that you can score

DOES anyone really think that we as a nation would ever consider pushing the nuclear button?

When we sit here in our land of reasonably plenty, at peace with the world, with no sane reason to even consider it?

Of course not – but quite a bit of that “of course not” is actually to do with us having nuclear weapons in the first place.

Arsenal

The idea of nuking another country, or entity, is for many – including me – just beyond comprehension.

However, with Russia and its delightful leader Vladimir Putin only a few small hours and miles away with an atomic arsenal that absolutely isn’t going anywhere, isn’t it quite a pragmatic idea to keep hold of our own?

The phrase politicians like to use is “mutually assured destruction” – meaning if, say, Russia aims a nuke at the US, they’ll return in kind.

Of course they will – as no country with nuclear capability is going to take such an attack lying down.

So if one side has weapons of mass destruction, then sorry, but it makes perfect sense for the other side to have them, too.

More importantly, it actually prevents anyone from reaching for the codes in the first place – as it would effectively be suicide.

In Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s world, though, he sees things rather differently.

He seems to think that getting rid of our nukes – our Trident submarines – will in some way make us “safer”.

Because it’s always safer to cast aside your shield, armour and helmet when going into battle against someone tooled up to the nines, isn’t it?

It’s hard to out and out dislike Jezza, because some of what he says makes sense – and the world would indeed be a far prettier and happier place if the nuclear option was eradicated.

But back on that place called Planet Earth, where we actually live, could we honestly trust allies like the United States, never mind rivals like Russia, to bin their whole arsenal and not keep one or two back just in case?

Enemies

The sad truth is that nuclear weapons came to exist in the first place, and that now they exist, they will never stop existing.

You can be sure if they managed to garner the money and expertise that our head-chopping, body tossing, burning-infidels-alive chums in Islamic State wouldn’t hesitate to use one, given half a chance.

Jezza’s problem is that he hasn’t grown up. He still believes we can all be saved if we wave red flags and chant nice things to our enemies.

And he’s about as prime ministerial as my dog – no offence, Casey – and has about as much chance of getting the keys to Number 10 as I do of getting into Emily Ratajowski’s pants (no offence to the missus).

The sooner the Labour party sort themselves out, the better as a nation we will be.

Can’t see it coming anytime soon, though. Can you?