Indefensible
THE case for spending billions more on defence is now as unarguable as it is urgent.
At a time when Donald Trump is demanding Europe steps up to provide its own deterrent against Putin’s Russia, Britain’s military is on its knees.
AFPKeir Starmer and Rachel Reeves are still ruling out spending more than 2.5 per cent of GDP on defence[/caption]
We don’t have enough troops to provide a meaningful chunk of any future peace-keeping force in Ukraine.
And our Navy has been reduced to a handful of barely functioning ships and submarines.
Yet Sir Keir Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves are still ruling out spending more than 2.5 per cent of GDP on defence when we need at least three per cent — and Trump demands five.
Treasury mandarins — guilty of senselessly running down our Armed Forces for decades — say there is no money.
Yet The Sun today reveals billions in staggering waste on foreign aid schemes like gender training in Jordan, green projects in Somalia — even a study on sickly shrimps in Bangladesh.
Some might say these are examples of the UK exercising soft power to buy influence abroad.
Others may well conclude we are being taken for mugs.
Britain simply cannot afford to sacrifice security at home on the altar of diversity and inclusion and Net Zero delusion abroad.
Having the military capability to protect our people should be the Government’s number one mission.
This hideous foreign aid frittering of our money shows priorities remain hopelessly wrong.
Self Hermer
DESPERATE for ideas for economic growth and with business confidence plummeting, the Prime Minister urges Cabinet colleagues to act as “disruptors”.
We wonder how the Attorney General Lord Hermer fits into this radical new thinking?
After all, he’s a one-man standard bearer for the arrogant, failed human rights-loving legal establishment.
Having categorically ruled out quitting the ECHR, will Lord Hermer now come up with “disruptive” measures to prevent activist judges allowing foreign criminals to stay here because their kids prefer British chicken nuggets?
Will he suggest a plan to tear up decades of woolly liberal thinking in the Home Office to stop the small boats?
It seems vanishingly unlikely.
Shirk ethic
WORKING from home has already damaged productivity in UK plc.
It now threatens to do more harm to school children who — like increasing numbers of their mums and dads — see turning up for class on Mondays and Fridays as optional.
Responsibility for showing the value of work lies with parents.
Starting, ironically, in the home.
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