Starmer reduces Overseas Aid to increase defence, now .....

[HKOwen]

2TK is terrified of Reform now.

Let's see if any Labour MPs publicly object, see if Sadick Cant has any squealings on this.

Personally I would have cut more off the aid spending

Good news

 

[HKOwen]

and of course Rachel got the sums wrong

 

[Stirlingsays]

Since Trump took office and started flexing America's economic might (probably not entirely in its self interest) we have seen massive numbers of EU fan boys and girls screaming and foaming at the mouth issuing encouragement for some form of retaliation or way to biff Trump on the nose.

What they don't seem to realise is the economics of the situation. EU and other politicians aren't going cap in hand to emperor Trump because they like him, it's because we are client states of the US.

The US occupy the same position the British Empire did when the ideological ancestors of these same lefties fought tooth and nail to reduce our power and thus influence and give away our empire so that we became toothless and a client state of other nations.

Now they p1ss and moan about the US and over estimate what we could do about it.....all with zero self recognition.

 

[Palace Old Geezer]

Now Anneliese Dodds, our International Development Minister, has resigned from the Government as the result of the PM's cuts to the aid budget. She asserts that this reduction in aid will cause more to leave their countries.

Wonder if there will be more disquiet on the left of Starmer's party.

 

[steeleye20]

The new government continues the tradition of bad decision making harming the UK's reputation, immoral and making no economic sense.

A former head of the British Army has criticized Labour’s leader for slashing foreign aid to boost military spending, calling it a “strategic mistake” that will increase pressure on the UK’s military.

Lord Richard Dannatt, retired defence chief, along with other former military experts, described the PM’s decision to reduce the aid budget as “shortsighted” and “counterproductive,” arguing that it would weaken the UK’s security strength.

😎

 

[cryrst]

The new government continues the tradition of bad decision making harming the UK's reputation, immoral and making no economic sense.

A former head of the British Army has criticized Labour’s leader for slashing foreign aid to boost military spending, calling it a “strategic mistake” that will increase pressure on the UK’s military.

Lord Richard Dannatt, retired defence chief, along with other former military experts, described the PM’s decision to reduce the aid budget as “shortsighted” and “counterproductive,” arguing that it would weaken the UK’s security strength.

😎

But allowing 1000s of undocumented fighting age western hating men to stay in the country isn’t shortsighted, counterproductive or doesn’t weaken our security strength.
Go figure 🤔😳🤡