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Roger, I can see that you are somewhat worried, as we are talking of national defence.
But there is no need to worry on this issue.
The scrapping of Nimrod is not appeasement, as we have no quarrel with our allies, with any country in Europe, and have allies in North America. Most countries in the world are on friendly terms with Britain, and no country threatens us with war.
The fact that there is no Cold War has changed enormously the situation in respect to the recent past. I'll give you an example.
The Russian Army, when parading in Red Square, uses Church symbols of the Orthodox Church.
Russian ministers attend Church, and believe openly in God. Believing in greater ideals of Christianity, these people will not turn back to the past. The same can be said for Eastern European countries in general: their leaders believe openly in Christianity and profess Faith.
We cannot linger on with out-dated strategies that cost so much money and can only be cause of distrust. It is and will be reciprocal, and has nothing to do with appeasement. Surely we do not want future generations inheriting a cycle of nuclear missiles and the need to build every twenty years hundreds of new warplanes and what not all that belonged to arsenals of recent military history on the Norhtern Hemisphere.
People in many other countries want the same: a future of peace and prosperity, and the cycle of technological progress in building new weapons had to be broken. The days of atom-tests for more destructive nuclear missiles - a spate of which broke out in the '90s - has to come to an end, and also this constant development of high-tech weapons in general.
The Government has decided to break this cycle, it is happening now, and this is one issue for whcih I give my whole and full-hearted support! We must never turn back from this.