Part of the Trident: we don't buy it tour blog 
Our climbers have been up a crane beside Big Ben for seven hours now - the banner’s looking big and beautiful in front of parliament, and the climbers have enough supplies to stay there until tomorrow afternoon’s vote.
I was watching while the climbers unfurled the banner this morning, just as Big Ben told the city it was seven am. Looking at the Houses of Parliament, I wondered what was going to happen inside those buildings over the next two days. The threat of a new Trident has kept us all frantically busy onboard the Arctic Sunrise for the past month, with the blockade of Faslane, bearing witness, a gig, press conferences and political events. But inside the corridors of power, the talk seems to be all about Trident too.
As well as the resignations, there is the hugely important cross-party amendment, sponsored by Jon Trickett MP. This amendment calls for the decision on Trident to be delayed, possibly until 2010 when the next Nuclear Non-Proliferation Conference takes place. 106 MPs (and rising) have put their names to it, and most of the Liberal Democrats - the only large party opposing Blair's rush to build new weapons capable of wiping 150 cities off the face of the earth - are still to follow.
This is huge; if enough MPs sign it, the amendment will derail Blair’s frantic attempt to leave nuclear weapons as his legacy, and allow for a proper, considered debate in the future. So even if you’ve already written to your MP, please email them again now (the vote’s tomorrow!) and urge them to support the amendment.
And tomorrow there’ll be a rally in Parliament Square, kicking off at 1pm. If Blair wins this vote, the UK will be lumbered with weapons of mass destruction for another 50 years; now is the time to act, and it’s a battle we can win. 76 percent of the population says no to Trident, and parliamentary opposition is growing by the hour – get stuck in!
