Since John Woodcock MP seems to think the Trident Nuclear programme is essential for full employment in his constituency (Podium, October 8) it is difficult to believe that he would favour even 'multilateral disarmament'.

To even contemplate a £100 billion weapons delivery system as a job creation scheme is so absurd as to be scarcely worth discussing, yet most of his article is devoted to precisely that.

If Barrow in Furness and its MP want to be serious about its future, it should be devoting at least some of its attention to skills transference for building a combined road and rail causeway from Heysham that would incorporate tidal, wind and wave-power generation, and perhaps include power lines from the new Sellafield power station instead of unsightly pylons.

The cost is unlikely to exceed the London Crossrail project which is currently under construction, and is merely to serve the needs of home counties commuters; a cross-bay bridge would regenerate the whole of West Cumbria - and create more jobs than half a dozen submarines.

Bill Angus

Kendal