I thought they said we are £12bn in the hole and that's why they're pushing forward with austerity?
Does the magic money tree only produce fruit when you want to cause harm in the world?
No it's OK, don't worry! Because everyone's going to magically Get Back To Work doing jobs that don't exist, and there won't be any more Lazy Disabled People putting a strain on Our Great British Finances! They may starve or freeze or kill themselves, but that's OK too! Because they are Moral Failures! Glory to Sir Keith! ✨✨✨
(...I'd like to think I don't need an /s but here it is, just in case.)
It's that old idea that you can build weapons in order to get yourself out of an economic crisis. Didn't seem to work in the run-up to 1914 or 1939 and I doubt it'll work this time either. But it'll distract the ordinary man or woman on the Clapham Omnibus from realising how shit everything is.
yes.
Yet we’re literally letting disabled people unable to work starve to death because they supposedly can’t afford to pay them a lil bit of money.
Those disabled people are valiantly giving their lives, so that poor people can give their lives to keep the stock market and inherited wealth safe
Great. More money flowing upwards into the pockets of the billionaire industrialists who own weapons manufacturing. Plus the joy of watching their media wind everyone up into hysteria about a war. If we're really lucky they'll then provoke a war and cause millions of us to die in the first blasts and then millions more in the radioactive wastelands afterwards.
You would have thought that for 2 billion pounds it would have been human sized.
It’s always worth reminding that the cretins at The Star got upset that Britain spent £140m developing a new 7in naval gun…
Good. It’s about time we taught the Isle Of Man a lesson.
Defending the UK given the current state of the world is sensible, but I wonder how they'll raise the cash for this
Can I ask who you think the UK needs to defend itself from?
I'm American, and our politicians talk constantly about needing to defend ourselves, but I find that they actually usually mean we need to be aggressive and pick fights the world over. As a result of this, I don't trust my government when they say we need to defend ourselves.
But I recognize the US is actually not the same as the UK, so that's why I'm asking you: is there a credible threat to the UK that is worth making plans against, including a larger and more well-equipped military? And if so, who from?
Anyone sane would agree with you. This is "war" between oligarchs and the very rich. It shouldn't involve everyone else. I'd like to see gladiatorial solutions to conflicts. Put Starmer in a cage with Putin if they really want to wage "war" on each other. I'm sure most Russians don't want war and just want to go about their lives like the rest of us.
TIL everyone who's died in Ukraine so far is a rich oligarch.
As an island nation, Britain is dependent on free sea trade for its survival. Just recently the Navy had to deal with Yemeni maniacs who fired missiles at British shipping, including picking a fight with a British Destroyer. Along the trade route, there is a high amount of piracy from East Africa and India. Iran keeps trying to board vessels illegally unless they have a naval escort to deliver warning shots. In Asia, China is making big moves to cut off major trading routes in order to gain more leverage. Again more piracy in that region.
Over to the West, there are narco subs crossing the Atlantic to deliver dangerous chemicals by the ton, and Russia has been trying to get at undersea cables everywhere.
Russia is already waging a war against Europe. Who knows how far they would go if European militaries didn't exist to deter them.
Do you really, truly, in your heart-of-hearts believe that Russia is a military danger to the UK?
I've got a lot of coworkers from Eastern Europe, including Russia and Ukraine. As someone in the UK I'm not quite as scared as them of my country literally being annexed, but I don't want a belligerent superpower invading its way across Europe. That's happened before, less than 100 years ago. If you think that Putin "just wants Donbas" (just like he only wanted Crimea before), then you really need to read a history book.
That's like asking if I believe that ricin is a danger to humans
Sounds like a next generation problem.
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