Great. More money flowing upwards into the pockets of the billionaire industrialists who own weapons manufacturing. Plus the joy of watching their media wind everyone up into hysteria about a war. If we're really lucky they'll then provoke a war and cause millions of us to die in the first blasts and then millions more in the radioactive wastelands afterwards.
this post was submitted on 01 Jun 2025
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Good. It’s about time we taught the Isle Of Man a lesson.
You would have thought that for 2 billion pounds it would have been human sized.
It is just far away
It’s always worth reminding that the cretins at The Star got upset that Britain spent £140m developing a new 7in naval gun…
I thought they said we are £12bn in the hole and that's why they're pushing forward with austerity?
Does the magic money tree only produce fruit when you want to cause harm in the world?
It's that old idea that you can build weapons in order to get yourself out of an economic crisis. Didn't seem to work in the run-up to 1914 or 1939 and I doubt it'll work this time either. But it'll distract the ordinary man or woman on the Clapham Omnibus from realising how shit everything is.
Oh it works just fine. The secret is you have to use those weapons to get the stuff other people put work in to create in the mean time.
No it's OK, don't worry! Because everyone's going to magically Get Back To Work doing jobs that don't exist, and there won't be any more Lazy Disabled People putting a strain on Our Great British Finances! They may starve or freeze or kill themselves, but that's OK too! Because they are Moral Failures! Glory to Sir Keith! ✨✨✨
(...I'd like to think I don't need an /s but here it is, just in case.)
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Yet we’re literally letting disabled people unable to work starve to death because they supposedly can’t afford to pay them a lil bit of money.
Those disabled people are valiantly giving their lives, so that poor people can give their lives to keep the stock market and inherited wealth safe
Defending the UK given the current state of the world is sensible, but I wonder how they'll raise the cash for this
Sounds like a next generation problem.
As much as I hate the austerity cuts across the board. I believe this is a good idea as long as the money stays in the UK and has proper procurement rules, which I would trust labour to do better than the Tories, and can't see Reform or Greens being as good.
It would lead to growth as a lot of that money would go to wages of UK employees and come back as taxes. Plus we need to be realistic about not relying on the US. We have strong university education and should build back up our engineering sectors.
It would lead to growth as a lot of that money would go to wages of UK employees
Because that happens all the time
It's more likely to happen if we're making stuff here than buying it from abroad.