Rishi Sunak pledges big boost to defence spending, but how will it be funded? | The New Statesman
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- Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
- Rishi Sunak has pledged to lift UK defence spending to 2.5 per cent of
GDP by 2030.
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How has the Rwanda plan been paid for ?
This has nothing to do with Sunak, defence spending needs to increase so his bosses told him and he must do the paperwork.
If you're in favour of this, don't give this guy credit.
Never mind the cost, why by 2030? Why not by yesterday, today or tomorrow? No sense of urgency, just complacency. Foreign invasion is occuring but no urgency there either. Their priority is NOT the safety of this country or it's people, nor will it be Labours.
'Foreign invasion'. Do you mean the numerous foreign companies that own our public utilities and property portfolios?
We the people will unite and be free.
It won't because he'll be out of power and he's hoping to shaft Labour when they cost this project and have to cut it.
money printer go Brrrrr
Defence spending was more than 2.5% under labour. The tories cut it to less than 2.5%
Don't worry we have half Ukraine here
Carnt use a country to fight for you then loose and expect them to live in rubble
Then try pass on to other country's
As empty promises go this one just about takes the biscuit. A promise a couple of months before a General Election which goes out for 6 years is a promise the maker can't guarantee to keep
i for one would love nothing more than to pay more towards this and any other crackpot idea that he may have while all the while he will part with zero of his, his family's, his employer's or his chums wealth
Privatizing the nhs. Next question?
He can’t afford to complete HS2. He hasn’t placed an order for the trains yet. Alstom inDerby may have to close with a massive loss of jobs. Just like Port Talbot steel works.
[After reading the title…]
Wait, the same party that slashed the budget and personnel in the first place?
Got it.
Money laundering.
Until the media, and I very much include you in this, point out that a) it is not defense spending it is military spending that b) we do not need, this nonsense about "defense and security" will, necessarily, go unchallenged. We are members of NATO, whose members are responsible for more death and destruction than any other country or bloc, and which includes the US, who, with their enormous GDP and military spending dwarf every other country's expenditure. This is utterly unnecessary, and when the result would be another round of austerity, the criticisms of it should resound around the media. I wait with bated breath.
The world is becoming more dangerous and our army is tiny, yet you don't want to increase our defences? You sound like the Labour and Liberal parties in the 1930s who opposed rearmament when Nazi Germany was rearming night and day. The left never learn.
Didn't the Tories make this same proposal a few years ago, but Sunak, who was then Chancellor of the Exchequer veto it? Just asking.
Usual way....lift the bar beyond what the majority of medical professionals advise and take benefits like ESA and PIP off the most vulnerable.
Claimant's will appeal the decision and wait a year to have it reversed.....been through it before.
Bring back compulsory military conscription for all males aged 18 to 60 jail or worse for those who refuse
Tbf this is just to mess with labour
Sunak won't be there in 2025, let alone 2030
Out !!
It won’t be funded.
I am sure his wife will help out
By the disabled 😢
I do not know why you are bothering to talk about what the tories say.. its a. A lie . And b . its never going to happen ..
First 🎉
Just like cutting NI. Word salads are cheap. Btw 75,000 civil servants are needed to do brexit red tape that used to be done in the eu or not needed.
Labour coming into office? If it happens it will be their usual tax and spend, until the IMF is needed, then it will be austerity on steroids.
As opposed to Tory policy of don't tax & don't spend . Without taxes you can't have any public services, unless you vote Tory & you pay taxes & still don't get any public services because they've pocketed it all.
Unelected 🐀
It's not a big increase. As for Starmer, he needs the votes of flag-shaggers. It's why he's Tory-lite. You can't win a UK GE without being right wing. The English won't have it any other way. That's Thatcher's legacy - Blair knew it and Starmer is fine with it. If he weren't, he would be trying to change it.