Starmer Increases Defense Spending: Cuts Overseas Aid to Pay For It

[3NUMBAS]

Still sending foreign aid to despots like North Korea 

 

and money to India despite them spending on space vehicles

[JonnyF]

40 minutes ago, 3NUMBAS said:

Still sending foreign aid to despots like North Korea 

 

and money to India despite them spending on space vehicles

 

Indeed.

 

White guilt is one hell of an affliction. 

[candide]

43 minutes ago, 3NUMBAS said:

Still sending foreign aid to despots like North Korea 

 

and money to India despite them spending on space vehicles

UK sending foreign help to NK? 

[RayC]

On 2/26/2025 at 5:16 PM, James105 said:

 

You do realize that if the UK disappeared overnight and consumed not a jot of energy ever again this would make net zero difference to climate change?  Thinking that just UK citizens paying extra for energy, putting up a few bird killing wind farms, spaffing £23 billion on unproven carbon capture is going to make any difference other than destroying the UK economy is just delusional.  

 

Let's suspend reality for a moment and assume that the UK has some influence on the world stage and has entered into a negotiation about emissions with China and India. Adopting your position, the conversation might go something like this.

 

UK: We'd like you to formulate a plan for achieving 'net zero',

C+I: Difficult but we'll give it a go. Can we have your plan. We'll use it as a template for our own. 

UK: Err .. We don't have one.

C+I: What? How do you hope to achieve 'net zero' without a plan?

UK: Actually we don't have any intention of trying to achieve 'net zero'.

C+I: So let's get this straight. You're asking us to take measures that you are unwilling to take yourself?

UK: Err ... Yes. That's the nub of it.

C+I: Wonder if we can make it to Heathrow in time to catch the next planes home?

 

On 2/26/2025 at 5:16 PM, James105 said:

DOGE UK would have achieved significantly more.  

 

Perhaps. But any savings wouldn't be immediate.

 

On 2/26/2025 at 5:16 PM, James105 said:

 

"We are doing this for your safety" said every authoritarian tyrant who ever lived. 

 

Starmer is no more an authoritarian tyrant than he is someone deliberately trying to make the UK poorer. It is ridiculous hyperbole.

 

On 2/26/2025 at 5:16 PM, James105 said:

The fact that this is where passwords, passkeys are stored and should a hacker get access to the unencrypted data would be a treasure trove for them.   

 

It would.

[nauseus]

On 2/26/2025 at 11:06 AM, Bkk Brian said:

Since 2014......................

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyrkkv4gd7o

 

US apart, it seems that the further away from the Ukraine the others are, the smaller the recent increases are. Funny that.