UK to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP – meaning tens of billions of pounds of extra funding
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-to-increase-defence-spending-to-25-of-gdp-meaning-tens-of-billions-of-pounds-of-extra-funding-13121450
by IXMCMXCII
UK to increase defence spending to 2.5% of GDP – meaning tens of billions of pounds of extra funding
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-to-increase-defence-spending-to-25-of-gdp-meaning-tens-of-billions-of-pounds-of-extra-funding-13121450
by IXMCMXCII
29 comments
I thought there was no magic money tree? What services that we need did you sell off to pay for this Rishi?
Unfortunately that’s the world we are living in. Russian military strength is increasing all the time. The army is larger now than it was before the war started. This is a prudent move.
All that old stuff we gave to Ukraine, it all needs replacing and fast.
Good news. And thankfully it is being done now to be priced in before Labour take over so we can focus spending elsewhere. It’s a disgrace that the armed forces have been worn down so much under the Tories. I wonder how much Biden had to do with this behind the scenes?
One thing missing from the headline…’by 2030.’
Basically a half-assed attempt to win votes. If they were serious about the uncertainty we face they’d increase the spending now.
I bet the US defence industry are delighted by this news.
This is good news and I say this as a fairly lefty Labour voter. Europe is becoming a less safe place and we need to be prepared to keep our continent and our home safe. We can’t rely on the Americans and others, we need to be able to help ourselves and be a help to others.
As Tupac once said
> They got money for wars but can’t feed the poor
Can’t finish HS2, properly fund the NHS or have benefits on the level of nordic countries but can just blow up money.
The greater our defence -> the greater the cost of someone starting a war -> the more likely we continue in peace.
Any extra money should be focussed on delivering more troops, better equipment, better conditions for service personnel and to plug gaps caused by privatisation.
We should look to buy “off the shelf” equipment and standardise with our NATO allies.
It should not be used to fund contracts that go nowhere or are binned off after years of spaffing our money up the wall.
We need an actual fighting force, not more corruption and inefficiencies.
extra funding ≠ proper use of funds
great news if you’re a defence supplier
How much of this goes to Capita and their recruitment expertise?
Higher taxes for working people, not much changes for anyone else I assume
More Tories give aways before the GE to appease far-right voters.
We need a GE urgently.
This money is just to pretend “Britannia rules the world”. Nobody will attack us. We have nuclear weapons.
I love it when the Tories announce spending plans beyond the end of the year, as if they will be in power.
It’s so cute. You just want to ruffle their hair and squeeze their little cheeks.
Call me a pessimist, but all this defence money seems to be protecting the super rich/hedge fund managers through geo-politics rather than protect Joe/Jane Bloggs on the street.
I still think western govts has the monies but the deliberately choose to create wars et al for their own self-serving interests.
paid for by taking benefits & help from disabled people who need it…. rather than properly taxing certain businesses among other things
Maybe the military should just be more efficient with the money it has. Maybe the problem isn’t lack of money but wastage on middle management.
Like the Tories keep telling us is the problem with the NHS
Whaddaya know? There was a magic money tree after all!
I see. More money to Tory donors then. I see things never change. In other news. Russia be on the other side of Europe compared to the UK and crucially they would have to come through Poland first to get anywhere near us and this time compared to the last time the Poles are forewarned of a pontential invasion and are spoiling g for a fight. Now apparently the Poles have state of the art kit, which the Ukrainians don’t fully have. And more importantly the Poles are motivated to kick the shit out of the Ruskis. All the Poles I’ve spoken to hate Russians more then Germans.
A rare moment of sanity for the Tories , credit where credit is due. Still pricks though.
Assuming this solely comes out of the NHS budget, how much from a percentage terms of daily spend is being diverted from Health to Defence?
Also meets our NATO obligations im sure rest of Europe will be doing same if not already
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So there is a magic money tree. Just not for the peasants.
This is good news, however it’s worthless unless wholesale changes are made to military recruitment.
Capita are comprehensively failing at every stage of the administration process.
Are we sure it’s not the GDP dropping that makes the spending appear higher?
Sounds nice, but that 2.5% target is 2030 and we have no idea if Labour will uphold it. The announced 75 billion over the next 6 years will have a huge chunk swallowed up by the black hole deficit the MOD has, and what’s left will undoubtedly be wasted unless and until there’s a serious plan for the armed forces structure. And that’s before issues like pay, conditions, housing and munition magazine depth/reserve come into play.
Every part of HMAF need funding. So it’ll be interesting to see where it goes and how far.
But why though? That could be spent to actually improve things in the country