Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

[MadSpurs]

Think Burnham did pretty well in his first PMQs earlier

 

[Glenda's Legs]

Think Burnham did pretty well in his first PMQs earlier

I thought so too.
He's going to have to ease off the "When I was running Manchester...." line though, before it becomes a parody. Forgiveable for now I think however.

 

[Mikey10]

I thought so too.
He's going to have to ease off the "When I was running Manchester...." line though, before it becomes a parody. Forgiveable for now I think however.

When he began his statement on the Nepal floods last week I did worry he’d open with, “Coming from a region which gets a lot of rain…”

 

[MartyFunkhouser]

I thought so too.
He's going to have to ease off the "When I was running Manchester...." line though, before it becomes a parody. Forgiveable for now I think however.

Yeh, the PR bods will have a field day with that soon.

 

[P.D.]

Funny that Healey resigns because Starmer wouldn't come up with a plan for the 3% defense spending and now he refuses to commit to it until the spending plan next year.

 

[Rorschach]

Good news for reform voters. Boat crossings are way down, and so they don't have to worry about that anymore. We will probably never hear about that issue again.

 

[Baleforce]

Funny that Healey resigns because Starmer wouldn't come up with a plan for the 3% defense spending and now he refuses to commit to it until the spending plan next year.

almost like he wasn’t as concerned about defence as he claimed

I wonder what else it could have been about…

Thus will cost him, and more importantly the government, a lot of respect in the MoD, at a very important time.

 

[Baleforce]

Good news for reform voters. Boat crossings are way down, and so they don't have to worry about that anymore. We will probably never hear about that issue again.

And they will all vote labour now right?

Right?

 

[MartyFunkhouser]

And they will all vote labour now right?

Right?

Hahah no chance, the "you are more likely to be................." crew will be out in force as usual. Peddling their BS

 

[Glenda's Legs]

Good news for reform voters. Boat crossings are way down, and so they don't have to worry about that anymore. We will probably never hear about that issue again.

Nige has started going on about migrants coming via lorries now....

 

[Gutter Boy]

Funny that Healey resigns because Starmer wouldn't come up with a plan for the 3% defense spending and now he refuses to commit to it until the spending plan next year.

They need to bundle defence and green energy budgets together. In fact they should merge those two departments. 100% domestically owned green energy is the quickest way to achieve security in the world. Then despots like Putin and Trump become irrelevant.

 

[Rorschach]

And they will all vote labour now right?

Right?

Of course. Small boats were their main concern, so now they will be able to vote for other parties with policies that align with their thinking. Like.... eh...Restore.

 

[Rorschach]

They need to bundle defence and green energy budgets together. In fact they should merge those two departments. 100% domestically owned green energy is the quickest way to achieve security in the world. Then despots like Putin and Trump become irrelevant.

Food security is another huge national security problem.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

Food security is another huge national security problem.

Food, water, energy, shelter in no particular order ...1st priorities...aim for gold standard, ALWAYS. With zero consideration that one must make a profit.

Then health, transport

 

[Rorschach]

Food, water, energy, shelter in no particular order ...1st priorities...aim for gold standard, ALWAYS. With zero consideration that one must make a profit.

Then health, transport

Indeed.

The food security one involves external supply chains, which are pinch points outside the boundaries of the UK. Disruption there will have an immediate impact within days and a potentially catastrophic impact within a week ( 9 meals from anarchy...). You could argue most of the others are somewhat under the control of the government, or could be in an pinch. I just think that food is the soft underbelly of the UKs national security and needs more attention. I'm sure I read recently there are little to no national stockpiles. At least you have a target though (60% sufficency). We don;t even have that over here.