New-born babies will die because of the £20bn NHS cuts. Afghan civilians and British soldiers will die because of £20bn spent on the Afghanistan war. Solution: cut the war, stop the cuts.
Cost of war
New-born babies in the UK will die to pay for the war in Afghanistan
- 18 October 2011
- Robin Beste
- Cost of war
How to take 2 million children out of poverty by cutting cost of war
- 11 October 2011
- Robin Beste
- Cost of war
The cost of just one Storm Shadow missile used by the RAF to bomb Libya -- at £1 million each -- would be enough to take 222 people in Britain out of poverty for a year.
What we could do with the money wasted on the Afghanistan war
- 09 October 2011
- Brian Eno
- Cost of war
Which do you think is the best investment? asks Brian Eno. A war machine which incurs contempt and hatred everywhere for Britain? Or funding for hospitals, nurses, schools and child-care?
War in Libya they said would cost under £100m is nearing £2bn
- 25 September 2011
- Nick Hopkins
- Cost of war
While the cost of war in Libya heads for £2bn, on top of the £5bn the Afghanistan war will cost this year, David Cameron tells us there is no alternative to cutting the NHS, disability benefits and pensions.
Why is Britain spending £25 billion a year on defence? Who's coming to get us?
- 08 August 2011
- Peter Preston
- Cost of war
Who is going to start attacking the UK any time soon? Iceland, France, Germany? Russia? Peter Preston says, "Give me one believable scenario that makes sense."
$20 billion a year to keep the US killing machine cool in Afghanistan and Iraq
- 27 June 2011
- Daily Mail
- Cost of war
A staggering $20 billion dollars a year is what the US military is spending on air conditioning in Iraq and Afghanistan: enough to give every man, woman and child in those countries $333 each.
Government admits the endless war in Libya has already cost UK £260m
- 22 June 2011
- Allegra Stratton
- Cost of war
George Osborne said it would cost tens, not hundreds of millions. Now the defence minister Liam Fox has had tell the truth. The war in Libya in just over two months has cost Britain £260 million.
What's it costing British taxpayers to bomb Libya?
- 20 June 2011
- Ian Katz
- Cost of war
The cost to the UK taxpayer of bombing Gaddafi for six months is the same as the savings from ending the education maintenance allowance; or three times the amount saved by scrapping the disability living allowance.
Paying for the war in Libya by making disabled people homeless in Britain
- 07 June 2011
- Robin Beste
- Cost of war
Nine weeks of war in Libya will cost £200 million -- the same amount the government aims to "save" by making changes to housing benefit which could force 11,000 disabled people into homelessness.
Libya: on track to be Britain's £1 billion war
- 22 May 2011
- Richard Norton-Taylor & Simon Rogers
- Cost of war
We were told it would cost "tens, not hundreds of millions", but after two months the war on Libya is already over £100 million, and by September it's likely to top £1 billion.
Cutting libraries to wage war?
- 22 March 2011
- Andrew Murray
- Cost of war
David Cameron says Britain is so much in debt that welfare benefits to the poorest and most vulnerable in society must be slashed to the bone, but there's still enough to wage foreign wars.Jobs not bombs in the US
- 06 December 2010
- Cost of war
Senators yell about the cost of keeping the unemployed from going hungry, while at the same time shoving enough money to keep benefits going into the money pit of war.War spending vs public services
- 16 November 2010
- Roger Bagley
- Cost of war
David Cameron boasts that Britain has the world's fourth biggest military, at the same time as he is slashing public services to the bone.Fund education not war
- 01 November 2010
- Cost of war
AUDIO: Student Tom Wills pulls no punches in telling senior NATO advisor Jamie Shea why he's not welcome as a visiting lecturer at Sussex University.Nick Robinson loses his cool
- 22 October 2010
- Cost of war
VIDEO: The BBC's political editor, Nick Robinson, takes direct action against a placard which carried the slogan "Cut the War, Not the Poor".30 billion reasons to end the war in Afghanistan and scrap Trident
- 27 July 2010
- Robin Beste
- Cost of war
Between now the next general election, the government will spend £20 billion on the futile Afghanistan war and £10 billion on maintaining the militarily pointless Trident missile system.