#362

Bit rude and not accurate

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#363
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#364

didn’t work

#365

And composted the following year

#366

That’s when the mud farmers come into their own.

#367

Oh. Great.

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#368

Priorities eh.

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#369

Was just about to post this

this is it… this is the Tories economic vision for the future

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#370

Think i heard a few days ago that job applications to the forces were up massively. Is this… the plan to fix unemployment? Oh god.

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#371

First we attack the virus

Then we attack the climate apocalypse

profit

#372

This includes funding for a space program ffs! And in the same week they’ve announced cuts to overseas aid.

Not to mention the barely hidden fraud in handing over contracts to line Tory MPs pockets with public money; the enormous increase in food bank usage; the squabbling over supporting people on minimum wage through the pandemic.

Just pure despair all of the time atm

Oh and

Labour said the spending announcement signalled “a welcome and long overdue upgrade to Britain’s defences after a decade of decline”. The shadow defence secretary, John Healey, added that since 2010 “the size of the armed forces has been cut by a quarter, defence spending was cut by over £7bn”.

feel like pure shit just want corbyn back

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#373

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Yeah joking aside this is bleeeeak

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#374

I have seen some people trying to argue that this is a sensible shoring up of our defenses given that we are no longer in the EU and this investment replaces some of the shared EU defense commitments … but (aside from this possibly being true in terms of leaving the joint European space agency) this is bollocks surely? EU status doesn’t impact NATO status and the UK is the largest defense spender in Europe (only France comes close in real terms, slightly higher in GDP terms)

Just another goose step towards Empire Fash Island endgame innit?

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#375

Very much looking forward to Johnson deciding that part of the annual Brexit anniversary “celebrations” on new years day will be a full on military parade past no. 10.

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#376

I say ‘we’ but I am Swedish citizen these days of course actually dual but so I still give a shit

#377

Yeah also this argument fails the logic test of defence against what? Or are we still classing they obliteration of poorer/inconvenient/far-away nations as defensive?

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#378

Our borders and our skies
Our blood and soil

The bogeyman external threat that keeps us compliant

The future Scottish Troubles

Etc

I mean, if you want to be a card carrying military-industrial complex capitalist you could make an argument out of retooling redundant car manufacturing capacity into making tanks, jets & aircraft carriers, plus there is a lucrative market in exporting weapons & guidance systems as well as crowd control to dictatorial regimes so… got to save that economy somehow!

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#380

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#381

Can’t remember who said that the defence stuff might be a way of filling the jobs hole right now. Apparently it will create 10,000 new jobs.

Maybe I’m being sniffy about that, but it doesn’t feel like that many jobs for that amount of money

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