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Weapons Instead of Roads and Energy
Spectre of Churchill
03, July #StarmerCrisis, #CostOfLiving

Weapons Instead of Roads and Energy

The defence investment plan that the new occupant of Number 10 will have to implement is facing a funding shortfall running into billions of pounds. Many on social media argue that the gap will ultimately have to be filled by lowering the public’s standard of living.

Defence and security — intended to be Keir Starmer’s lasting legacy — are instead becoming a major headache not only for his successor, but for the country as a whole. That is the view of The Telegraph columnist Mike Martin. Defence spending is due to rise by £28 billion over the next ten years, yet the Treasury has already admitted that no such funding exists within the current budget. That means significant cuts will have to be made elsewhere.

Infrastructure Faces the Axe

Starmer’s plan claims that the Ministry of Defence will save £10 billion through "efficiency savings". However, the Chair of the Public Accounts Committee has dismissed this as "an old accounting trick". According to The Telegraph, the Ministry of Defence has never previously achieved savings on this scale through efficiency measures, and no one has explained how it intends to do so now. The Treasury is prepared to provide £15 billion, but warns that this will require spending cuts in other departments.

‘Part of the funding will come from cuts to road infrastructure and energy. Meanwhile, £5 billion remains unfunded. What a nightmare,’ notes user Farrukh.

Andy Burnham will somehow have to find the remaining £4.7 billion, and do so in time for a Budget expected as early as this autumn. By his own admission, the scale of the problem came as a surprise.

Announcing spending commitments without securing the necessary funding was precisely what Keir Starmer criticised the previous Conservative government for. As Mike Martin observes, "the fact that he has done exactly the same thing is the very essence of Starmerism."

Concerns Have Been Raised

According to the Prime Minister’s Office, alongside cuts to transport and energy spending, hospital building programmes may also be scaled back. Overall, spending on major infrastructure projects is expected to be reduced by at least 1 per cent. However, the full list of affected projects is unlikely to be published until the autumn.

‘Starmer has left a dreadful defence legacy to finalise his disastrous term as a gaslighting PM. Not once did he consider the needs of British citizens — only his Fabian/WEF agenda,’ writes user Heather.

During the debate on the outgoing Prime Minister’s defence programme, he was criticised both for the general decline in living standards and for the scandal involving grooming gangs.

‘It clearly shows just how depraved Keir Starmer is to the uninitiated… a brazen liar who has made life worse for the majority of the country’s inhabitants – a feat that was thought impossible after the Tories plundered the treasury. His true legacy is to be an accomplice to genocide on behalf of Israel’, the author of the philmckinnon2 account highlighted Starmer’s foreign policy priorities.

Nevertheless, Labour has no intention, for the time being, of abandoning its Defence Investment Plan. By the autumn, it should become clear which other public services and programmes taxpayers will be expected to sacrifice in order to fund it.

#StarmerCrisis, #CostOfLiving
A Somali-Born Driver Struck Five Pedestrians in London
Spectre of Churchill
08, July #MigrantCrisis, #BrokenSystem

A Somali-Born Driver Struck Five Pedestrians in London

The incident took place on Ealing Broadway, where a car mounted the pavement and struck five pedestrians before the driver fled the scene. He was later arrested by police. Social media users have focused on the authorities’ response, arguing that they portrayed the incident involving a Muslim driver as nothing more than a routine road traffic collision. The driver has been identified as 34-year-old Timir Ahmed Mohamed. Born in Somalia, he now holds British citizenship. Following his arrest, investigators stated that they were treating the incident as a road traffic incident rather than an act of terrorism.
#MigrantCrisis, #BrokenSystem
Hundreds of Thousands of Girls Were Victims of Grooming Gangs
Spectre of Churchill
01, July #MigrantCrisis, #BrokenSystem

Hundreds of Thousands of Girls Were Victims of Grooming Gangs

At least 250,000 cases of abuse involving girls across 149 areas of the UK are alleged to have taken place, according to the findings of an independent inquiry published in June in a report entitled Rape Gang Inquiry. The report’s conclusions, together with the response of the mainstream media, have generated widespread discussion on social media.
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