Price inflation may be slowing, but Labour is letting inflation in warmongering rip. The conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon is at its worst since the 2006 war, with Netanyahu saying Israel’s latest attacks are ‘not the end of the story.’
We can be certain of that. The Israeli government wants war and keeps trying to provoke it with Hezbollah and Iran. We are expected to believe the lie that Israel is only defending itself when it uses the most sophisticated weaponry backed up by US ships in the Mediterranean.
Labour has nothing to say about this except the weakest words of caution. Meanwhile, it seems to be doing its best to create a much bigger conflict between Ukraine and Russia. Britain, not the US, is a prime mover over the Ukrainian invasion of Kursk, with the Times newspaper reporting that Keir Starmer and defence secretary John Healey were in talks for the previous 48 hours about how far to go to confirm growing British involvement in the incursion towards Kursk.
The report confirms British equipment has played a central role in Ukraine’s new offensive and that British personnel have been closely advising the Ukrainian military for two years, “on a scale matched by no other country”.
Zelensky’s increasingly strident demands for ever more weaponry are encouraged by this new Labour government, which has pledged an extra £3 billion of British taxpayers’ money in military assistance to the country, thus keeping a war between two nuclear states going that has already cost hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides and will result in a huge cost to humanity if it escalates still further.
And we can be certain that Starmer’s commitment to increasing military spending to 2.5% of GDP will take priority over pensioners, the NHS and everything else.
No wonder the arms companies are laughing all the way to the bank while people are dying in overcrowded A&Es. The FT’s report that the world’s largest aerospace and defence companies are set to rake in record levels of cash over the next three years as they benefit from a surge in government orders for new weapons is of no surprise. But it is a bonanza for arms companies paid for by us.
Increased military spending won’t make us any safer. Stop the War has launched a petition demanding that our money is spent instead on improving the lives of people – on better services, climate protection and on promoting peace, not on escalating deadly conflicts.
