I was extremely heartened to know that we have had a multimillion pound defence review. It is great that this government has sourced this review out to a private company and they, after much expenditure and investigation, have come up with some detailed findings that the government plans on implementing. After all we wouldn’t trust the government or civil servants to do that, would we?
This makes me feel a lot safer. Now I can sleep easy knowing that we are in safe hands.
The three major findings were:
- We have threats from inside the state and we have threats from outside the state. Presumably that means we do not have to waste any resources or make contingency planning for extraterrestrial invasions.
- We have to cover terrorism, cyber attacks and aggression from other states such as Russia. Wow! That takes some absorbing. Mr Cameron explained they were going to have to put back some of the cuts they made last time.
- We need to spend £41 billion on four nuclear ships. Presumably we would still have to ask permission from the USA if we ever wanted to use them? They did not say in the report.
It left me pondering.
I thought we were broke. We don’t have money for doctors, nurses, police, teachers or social workers. We can only afford low pay, zero hours contracts and temporary posts. We are cutting benefits from the poorest in the country.
So where is this huge sum of money coming from? Apart from the £41 billion they were a little unclear on how many more billion the rest was going to cost. Are we talking £60 billion? That would buy quite a few teachers and nurses! Where could they get such a large sum?
Are they proposing to claw it back from the bankers who last year received their big tax cuts so their bonuses do not suffer as much?
Perhaps instead of fleecing the poor they are going to use them as target practice and kill two birds with one stone?
Phew. I’m so glad I don’t have to make these difficult decisions It must worry David dreadfully. But anyway, it is good to know that the millions spent on the review was not money wasted. We have a detailed report to tell us what needs doing. I’m sure they’ll find the tens of billions somewhere.
I think the report suggested they sell off a bit of land. That should do it!
I’m sure I heard a figure of 178 billion on today’s news. Roll the printing presses!
It wouldn’t surprise me.
Our money wasted as usual.
I think it is the hypocrisy that annoys me. There is no money for everything and then there is. It shows that all these cuts are ideological.
Sad to say I don’t think it does worry David too much. He’s not ageing enough. And the old adage there’s always money for war or do I mean security. The words keep shifting.
It’s all very George Orwell isn’t it! If David goes we’ll probably be saddled with George. Imagine that?
Tell Trevor that we are going to a Quaker meeting next week. Just to have a look!
Oh ! Will do? Hull? We’ve just been on a Quaker course about speaking out for Peace. Testing times.
Beverley – low key. We’ll see. I’ve no great hopes. I’m too much of a cynic these days.
Well said Nava. Yes, shifting all right – like the targets of their wares. One minute it’s Syria, then it’s Iraq and back around again.
Perhaps there’s money in it? Only suggesting.
Indeed, 178 billions worth….
That’s a lot of teachers. Perhaps we’d be better off parachuting in teachers?
Not half. Btw, did you watch the doc on ch4 last night?
I watched the undercover ISIS women.
At least that’ll be about 3 or 4 less spreading their hate. There was an Asian community meeting room right opposite the record shop. It closed down suddenly for unknown reasons. It’s pandemic.
They are utterly nuts. You’d feel sorry for them if it wasn’t for the vitriol. Why the fuck don’t they go and live somewhere that they can have their medieval sharia and pray to their nonexistent god. I don’t care what they believe in. that’s a matter for them. I just care that they want to impose their stupidity on everyone else. Rant over.
It’s no rant Opher – it’s a matter of fact and one that our blindly stupid, naïve leadership – regardless of which party – have trapped themselves and ourselves into. Coupled with the pc correct “oh, you can’t say that, it’s racism” loony liberals, well here’s the result. Some years ago I took some major shit from some Stormcockers for suggesting there’s trouble at mill and we are hated by a large number of Muslims living here. I’ve yet to receive their profound apology.
We have planes, lots of them, let’s start loading them one way. I’ll do the boarding passes.
I don’t know why the fuck they want to come here when they hate everything we stand for. I’m all for tolerance but I can’t cope with this intolerance and insane religion. They need to get the fuck out if they don’t like democracy. There’s plenty of places that have they brand of theocracy. It’s that same old rock. They want to force everyone to believe the same bullshit. It’s about time Islam had an enlightenment. It took Christians long enough.