Trump has just announced that the US will be bombing Iran hard and the mission is theft of their oil.
In 2026 they declare their war crimes openly because this world is too backwards and cowardly to stop them.
Healey wanted to increase defence spending by £28bn/year from
£61bn to approx £89bn. That's an increase of 40%!
It was an ABSURD ask - UK would be the fourth largest military spender in the world after US, China and Russia.
Vast amounts of that would be siphoned off by rapacious, price-gouging contractors in the most corrupt industry in the world. And none of it would help - in fact, it would mostly worsen - the biggest threat to global security, which is climate change.
The right wing press will try and present Healey's ask as eminently reasonable, but it was a ludicrous cash grab at the same time that were cutting overseas aid, climate change mitigation and welfare spending.
.@JohnHealey_MP is one of world’s most heinous war criminals
He ordered UK spy flights over Gaza for over a year
The intel gathered was handed to genocidal Israeli military in real-time
@IntlCrimCourt cannot let him escape accountability for his crimes
Elon Musk can say what he likes about me but I won't stay silent whilst foreign tech billionaires, money earned off the backs of real workers, try to interfere in our democracy, incite violence in our communities and tear apart our country.
Time for him to pipe down.
Absolutely astonishing that there has been a two day racist pogrom in Northern Ireland and @Keir_Starmer hasn’t called a COBRA meeting.
QWHITE revealing!
"I believe that the women of Makerfield deserve better [...] Reform's policies for women would be a disaster. " - Sarah Wakefield, Green candidate for Makerfield.
This is possibly the saddest thing I've seen in a long time..an immigrant nurse talking about fleeing her home..she saved her UNIFORM. So she could still WORK for our communities.
I'd fill this country with a thousand of this woman than one of those good for nothing thugs.
God help this poor woman.
Congratulations to all the media muppets only just waking up to the fact that Boris Johnson's Brexit meant there was still an open border with the EU on the island of Ireland, and always will be (until Ireland reunifies, of course, which is increasingly likely over the next decade).
Jesus.
We bloody told you. We were screaming it from the rooftops that a Hard Brexit would be impossible because of the Belfast Agreement.
You all decided to gloss over it and drool over Johnson and his disgraceful deceit instead.