To counter that: we need to stay in NATO and fulfil our commitment to increasing spending on the military and nuclear weapons to 5% of GDP. That’s something like £140-150 billion a year. A massive increase that everyone important says we need because war is coming. What’s more we need to further cut services, spending on education and NHS, social security and increase taxes. Why? War is coming. We can’t have the threat of China and Russia driving tanks, sailing boats and submarines all the way to our little country, can we? Do we want to live in Little Beijing-on-the-Thames or St Petersberg-on-Tyne or what?
To counter that: we need to stay in NATO and fulfil our commitment to increasing spending on the military and nuclear weapons to 5% of GDP. That’s something like £140-150 billion a year. A massive increase that everyone important says we need because war is coming. What’s more we need to further cut services, spending on education and NHS, social security and increase taxes. Why? War is coming. We can’t have the threat of China and Russia driving tanks, sailing boats and submarines all the way to our little country, can we? Do we want to live in Little Beijing-on-the-Thames or St Petersberg-on-Tyne or what?