Starmer shows once again that he's both stupid and immoral
I sent the following to the Scottish lamestream media outlets yesterday on the UK’s pathetic strategic defence review. It was published in The National, June 4, 2025.
The UK’s strategic defence review prompted dim Keir Starmer to conclude that the country must move to a “war-fighting readiness” because it’s “being directly threatened by states with advanced military forces.” To counter this unstated threat, he wants to turbo charge defence spending.
The four Dreadnought class of nuclear submarines due to replace the leaking Trident fleet was costed at £41bn. Now Starmer wants to triple the number to twelve which will add £82bn to the price tag, plus another £15bn to make some more warheads. That’s £138bn.
Two points. First, Russia has no desire to invade the UK or any other European country. It was provoked into fighting a war against the combined forces of NATO who are using Ukraine as a proxy to threaten Russia’s very existence as a sovereign nation. See my piece on the root cause of the Ukraine war - NATO expansion.
Second, how can Starmer and Reeves find £138bn for war when they declare that the government is too skint to pay £1.4 billion to keep pensioners from freezing or £3.4 billion to lift 1.6 million kids out of poverty?
And when they argue that military spending will jump-start economic growth and provide lots of jobs, they’re talking drivel.
The fiscal multiplier for each pound of defence spending is well below zero and for nuclear weapons it’s deeply negative, which means the productive economy actually shrinks. By contrast, each pound spent on health generates £4 of economic activity and £9 when spent on education.
And of course all this war spending will end up in the pockets of the merchants of death. BAE Systems and US companies Babcock, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Raytheon, General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman will make billions from the UK Treasury’s largesse.
This is not only economically stupid, it’s immoral. It’s also par for the course for this English Labour cabal that tries to pass itself off as a government.
Thanks Leah. It's all about money, the weapons makers will benefit hugely and it's truly sickening, all paid for from the public purse of course. Meanwhile old folks, children and disabled people will suffer, some will die due to Starmer's cuts to the measly £'s they have to survive on anyway. We could even say Labour are worse than the Tories. The immorality and cruelty of Starmer is just despicable.
I watched Yanis Varoufakis at 'declassified UK' via Ytube yesterday, an article titled 'Stamer's military sopending scam'. It's worth a watch.
For some reason that, I admit, totally escapes me as, at this moment anyhow, it doesn’t seem to connect with reality at any point, Starmer et al seem to be wetting themselves with eagerness for WW3. I have this bizarre image now of him actually starting a war himself. He certainly doesn’t seem to care anything at all about most of the population of his own country and, as for foreigners, he only cares about Jews in Israel.