If the DIP is not properly funded, then we go in to the NATO summit as one of the weakest nations, both on rearming and leadership.
An absolutely wild collapse of hard and soft power in these last 2 years.
BREAKING: The Speaker of the House of Commons was furious to hear that the Government’s long awaited Defence Review is planned to be snuck out on a Friday when the House isn’t sitting.
This can only herald bad news for our nation’s defence.
Sir Lindsay Hoyle has long been a powerful advocate for the Armed Forces from the first day he entered Parliament.
He said he would be "appalled" to see the plan announced without a statement to the Commons first and makes a direct appeal to No10: "That would be an utter disgrace and an utter kick in the face to members of this House.”
It would also be the highest breach of standing orders and an act of cowardice.
Fuck me. Treasury really wanted to smash defence.
Reminder: HMT had ZERO issue with pension, welfare spending, various other pet projects, NetZero bollocks…
But defence of the realm? In the global context? = problematic
HMT need to explain in detail their reasoning
The 0.08% rise in defence spending as share of GDP between 2027 and 2030 is all the more unfathomable because Healey reveals the UK intelligence assessment is that Russia could attack a NATO country before 2030. If anything illustrates Starmer is unfit to be PM, it’s that.
This is a fundamentally unserious 'can't see the woods for the trees' argument made by officials, it speaks to a profound leadership vacuum at the level of national interest.
What was long suspected is now proven.
Attorney General Hermer has been part of a group of ideologically-motivated, government-embedded, Human Rights lawyers that have acted in a vexatious and biased way to persecute British soldiers, not because they broke the law, but to serve some twisted anti-military, anti-British agenda.
They, their greed (the made a lot of money doing it), and their crippling ideology, have deliberately misapplied the 1988 UK Human Rights Act to British military operations in ways that not only create a never-ending conveyor belt of Veteran persecutions but also fundamentally undermine Britain’s ability to wage war and thereby defend itself.
For the love of Country, he must step down.
Pleased that Sir Philip Barton has agreed to attend the Committee on Tuesday.
He will give evidence at 9am.
Morgan McSweeney will also give evidence on Tuesday - time tbc.
For our soldiers at the Battle of Danny Boy, wriggle room meant mustering the physical courage to crawl through fields under enemy fire.
For Lord Hermer and his clients, it meant an escape hatch for when their allegations collapsed.
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I hope a future government pursues this treacherous scumbag the way he has pursued our veterans.
I would love to see him hounded until his dying day just as he has done to our servicemen.
This parasite is not fit to lick the boots of our veterans.
No, it stands for English civilisation winning.
You stand for putting treacherous lawyers who collaborate with criminals in charge of lawfare against the SAS.
A future regime will jail your mate Hermer and RICO through your network
RETWEET IF AGREE
If I were Keir Starmer, I’d quit now over the Mandelson scandal - before the May local elections, which will be a historically humiliating repudiation of his entire agenda.
Starmer’s Attorney General Richard Hermer hounded British troops and ruined their lives as a blood sport.
This is one of many emails he sent which show what an awful man he is.
Hermer is a traitor to his country.
"Making sure the big story is out there whilst giving us some wriggle room if the killings did not in fact happen".
That's Lord Hermer, the Attorney-General, talking about innocent British veterans that was helping to prosecute.
This man is Starmer's most senior legal adviser.
Why exactly would a soldier of the Roman Empire be banned from the province of Britannia?
Even within the category “St George wasn’t English, hur hur”, this is a braindead entry.
"Wriggle room if the killings did not in fact happen."
Those are the words of Keir Starmer's Attorney General, sent whilst dragging British troops through the courts.
The troops were innocent. Keir Starmer's judgement is not.