Sir Keir Starmer has announced an extra £15bn for defence over the next four years, but warned it would mean some road and energy projects will now be scrapped.
The UK prime minister said on Tuesday that the long-awaited defence investment plan (DIP) would reverse the “corrosive hollowing out” of the armed forces and transform a military that has been “underfunded and unsuited to the threats we face”.
He called the blueprint “a platform on which I know my successor will build”. It has been signed off by Andy Burnham, to whom Starmer is expected to hand over power as soon as July 20.
What good is defending a country with shit infrastructure?
It’s for defensing the homes and assets of the rich. Lord Fitzwankle of ChorleyFlockbum is terrified that the Chinese have designs on his Olympic-sized swimming pool next to the maze in his estate’s grounds. Of course, Lord Fitzwankle wants his security paid for out of general taxation by cutting spending on state education, NHS and welfare.
It’s the backup plan is case the enemy gets through our first line defences. They won’t be going anywhere.