What would a #Russian victory over #Ukraine mean for the West? With Western weapons now allowed to interdict Ru forces in the #Kharkiv theatre, many are screaming about uncontrolled escalation & direct #NATO involvement. But would a Rus victory be really so bad? YES! Here's why:
@brendanpsimms Let's be honest here, John le Carrรฉ was a bit of an arse. He was a good writer most of the time, but he had an axe to grind against the UK.
You are an idiot! Is the country really not worth fighting for? Our history has contributed enormously to the planet and yet you so easily want to throw it away: penicillin alone has saved the lives of more people who died in the last 1000 years of warfare. We can turn around the current malaise in 5 years: incentivise work, reduce tax, reduce spending, sack half the civil service. Job done.
@MDC12345678 He's the best chance we've got against the other Labout idiots. If he stands, we better pray he wins rather than a Burnham/Milinand combo.
@DamianPudner Not in the slightest. If we don't make hard choices now, then someone else will do it for us. Then we would see proper austerity (which we never had before - even under the Cameron years).
@philmcraig Burnham doesn't offer any hope. Look at what he's done recently: said he'd support the WASPI women, then ended up offering them a bus pas. Now this. I'm afraid he's a weak career politico who has no vision for the country and is Starmer 2.0.
If we build def spending around a form of training for youth to give them discipline, a feeling of belonging, skills, and ethic based around duty then it can help. Also you have to look at the longer term: modern military expenditure is a tech investment that wouldnโt be taken commercially but can then be spun out into products and services.
@sebserlo@Steven_Swinford@FennellJW@oliver_wright Absolutely! I guess Starmer is so scared of rocking the boat due to leadership worries heโs essentially castrated himself! A total inability to make any decision. Still, Iโm sure he will still stand up and say: โI get it!โ With a faux serious expression on his face. Urgghhh.
The Labour govt is looking at making the word 'entrepreneur' a hate crime now I think - apparently it doesn't promote diversity as not everyone can be one (???) if they didn't go to private school etc etc. At least they don't need to do that with the word 'profit' any more - that's only needed in economic history books since 2025.
@markadamharold I wonder which of her famous broaches she'll be wearing when the day comes for a drink of tea or when she finds a stout looking man standing next to the open window in her house with a rather serious expression . . . (Probably not a smiley faced emoji I would bet).
@UK_Daniel_Card And increasingly trained on other AI slop! The whole world will be slop in a few years, Dan! Slop here, slop there, slop everywhere . . . we'll be drowning in slop. And I don't want to drown in slop!!!! Not mine and especially not anyone else's!