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Pure falklands Toryism: Militarism to mask internal party divides, mobilise nationalism, while diverting money from social welfare.
Military spending and upgrading nuclear weapons does nothing to deal with greatest security threat to UK - climate change. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/18/boris-johnson-agrees-16bn-rise-in-defence-spending?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Military spending and upgrading nuclear weapons does nothing to deal with greatest security threat to UK - climate change. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/18/boris-johnson-agrees-16bn-rise-in-defence-spending?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The MOD ‘has continued to squander billions of pounds, enriching some of the worst corporate looters and corrupting public life via the revolving door of officials/lobbyists’.
A quote by, no not @CAATuk , but Dominic Cummings....
A quote by, no not @CAATuk , but Dominic Cummings....
Meanwhile UK's military leader mobilises anxiety surrounding 'WWIII'. No mention of one of the greatest threats to international security since WWII: invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan. https://www.itv.com/news/2020-11-08/covid-19-pandemic-has-made-world-war-iii-a-risk-uk-defence-chief-general-sir-nick-carter-says
The military continues its recruitment drive among minorities and working class communities to rebuild its reputation. The military exploited the economic insecurity of austerity, as @VmBasham detailed: https://academic.oup.com/ips/article-abstract/10/3/258/1751845and
And now the same during the pandemic.
And now the same during the pandemic.
Hard to fathom the political question of whether this gamble will pay off for Johnson amidst national crisis. Surely, in a 'post-militarism' society these sorts of wasteful and nefarious PR stunts can't pay off in terms of vote wins? Brexit-nationalism suggests otherwise.
The Conservatives don't want us to create a 'culture of dependency' through welfare spending, but want to sustain dependency on corrupt arms manufactures and remarry militarism with nationalism. Wasteful, nefarious and does nothing to increase social and environmental security.
The crisis exposed and exacerbated failed health and care systems which have been systematically disinvested, financialised and covertly privatised. The most pressing national security urgency for government spending is universal welfare and basic services, not nuclear weapons.
