Starmer 'doing what he's TOLD', says Patrick Christys
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OPINION: Patrick shared his thoughts on the defence spending increase
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Big news today, Starmer said he'd cut foreign aid and increase defence spending. He said: "I can announce that this government will begin the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War.
"We will deliver our commitment to spend 2.5 per cent of GDP on defence, but we will bring it forward so that we reach that level by 2027. This means we will cut our spending on development assistance."
Let's start, shall we, by sparing a thought for the Bangladeshi shrimp farmers, the queer community in Outer Mongolia, and, of course, Rory Stewart's wife's tribal army of Afghan basket weavers.
But it doesn’t matter. You have a contract. So, you know, Turquoise Mountain, which my wife Shoshana runs, has a contract. It had another million dollars to go. Then the money just stopped.
'Big news today, Starmer said he'd cut foreign aid and increase defence spending'
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Rory Stewart is talking about Trump there, of course. And I think this all comes down to Trump. The US president came out and said things like this, and he got it right.
Anyway, I said they're taking advantage. I’m the one who, when the Secretary-General was here, as you know, two weeks ago, said that if it weren’t for me, Nato wouldn't even exist right now.
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I raised money from countries that weren't paying their bills at that time—28 countries, 20 of them were not paying, 21 to be exact. They weren’t paying, or they were paying a very small portion.
I raised over $680 billion, that was the number he gave, by saying: "If you don’t pay, we’re not going to protect you." And as soon as I said that, the money came pouring in.
Now we’ve seen what Starmer is doing—what he's been told. Starmer has openly copied Reform’s policy. He’s openly copied what the Conservatives’ Robert Jenrick called for last March.
And this is all down to Trump, because Starmer is on record absolutely slamming Boris Johnson for cutting foreign aid. He said cuts are wrong because investing 0.7 per cent in international aid is in Britain’s national interest.
This has been a cross-party position for 20 years. Successive prime ministers have kept to the commitment. Every living prime minister thinks this is wrong. There's only one Prime Minister prepared to do this, and he's sitting there.
Yes, and just two weeks ago, Foreign Secretary David Lammy showed his tremendous intellect and political foresight by saying that Trump’s cuts to foreign aid were a strategic mistake that could leave other countries more reliant on China.
Well, it’s a shame that Ed Miliband didn’t get the memo. Now, I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that his dad was a Marxist, but he’s just signed us up to a load of Chinese-funded wind farms, despite the former MI6 chief warning against relying on China for energy.
Anyway, back to defence spending. Starmer is going to spend 2.5 per cent on defence spending by 2027, rising to 3 per cent after 2030. Okay, good. Well done.
Keir Starmer has increased defence spending
PAThis means spending less on pointless foreign projects like £9.5 million on supporting accountability and inclusion in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Yeah, that’s the country where militants have started beheading Christians, and I think, as you’ve just been hearing, kids have been eating bats and dying of diseases.
Anyway, this needs to go hand in hand with other cuts. We need to cut back on domestic spending waste. The arts need to be completely slashed. Screw it. Just scrap all taxpayer funding for that.
The taxpayer should not be funding weird Ponzi projects like The Europe That Gay Porn Built. The taxpayer paid £840,000 for that research. And we need to scrap woke policies in the military.
Remember this advert that saw infantry troops pause on their way to battle so a Muslim soldier could randomly start praying?
The RAF not hiring white men. Well, I bet they wish they had more pilots now, don’t they? On the face of it, though, Keir Starmer has done a good thing here, but it’s President Trump who deserves all the credit.