Three defence resignations in one night.
John Healey. Al Carns. Pamela Nash.
The people tasked with protecting Britain have lost confidence in this government.
Keir Starmer should resign.
Britain has paid Norway over £100 billion for gas since 2021.
For gas they’re drilling in the North Sea, the same sea Ed Miliband has banned new drilling in on the British side.
Madness.
In light of world events a capable Prime Minister would scrap the £30billion Chagos surrender...
And plough every penny of that into bolstering our thin armed forces. We could get:
350 F35 jets
25 Type 26 destroyers
A shed load of new recruits
Shame we don't have a capable PM
France spends €10 billion *less* on defence annually than Britain.
They have a larger armed forces, more planes, entirely domestic nukes and now they’re….escorting British aircraft carriers to West Asia.
Where’s the money going?!
If the UK scrapped net zero targets and went all in on North Sea oil and gas exploration, we wouldn’t be talking about energy bills, we’d be talking about sovereign wealth funds.
Countries that develop their resources get rich.
Norway did it. Saudi Arabia did it. Qatar did it.
Instead, Britain sits on vast reserves and imports expensive energy.
Drill, baby, drill.
🚨 CYPRUS IS DEFENCELESS
GB News has broken a story that Keir Starmer TURNED DOWN an offer from the Royal Navy to place one of our destroyers in the area.
Now, we’re depending on French, Greeks, Israelis and the US to defend our sovereign territory.
It’s an utter shambles.
The lack of UK defence preparedness is now a national scandal.
We have five nuclear-powered Astute class subs (different from our subs armed with Trident nuke deterrent). A sixth is in trials.
They cost us £1.65billion a click.
Four have been in refit/maintenance/dry dock for a total of 3,500 days!!
The one we can deploy is in Oz.
I guess events in the Gulf came as a surprise to military planners.
Another triumph from the folks MoD folks who brought the British Army Ajax
This is what Labour and the Tories have reduced us to.
Defence of the realm is the first duty of any government.
They have both failed at this task miserably.
https://t.co/aeEbDktlly
The U.K. has given £21billion to Ukraine since 2022 imagine if we spent that on our own armed forces we might be able to have our own ships at sea and an active nuclear deterrent.
200,000 Brits in range and UK has no ground or sea based air defence in theatre.
We are shooting down £25,000 drones with £100 million jets.
The UK has a dozen Typhoons in Qatar/Cyprus.
It does not have strategic airlift capability to evacuate the Brits.
Starmer act now.
A country with a Navy which once ruled the seas now effectively doesn’t have a Navy it can deploy at a time of crisis. We have no ships in the Mediterranean and no ships in the Gulf. It is a national scandal. Both Labour and the Tories are culpable.
BREAKING: Islamist regime in Iran has attacked British soil.
The Prime Minister must now respond with full force against the Islamic republic.
We cannot remain neutral when our land is under attack.
Anything less will demonstrate this govt cannot and will not keep us safe.