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Labour’s increased defence spending includes “resilience” investment. This includes energy infrastructure bought from China, allowing Beijing to shut down our power generation. Starmer accepts this, but won’t say he’ll stop it. And he calls this defence spending.

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SoundCheck_Guy1 year ago

Interesting point. @DerekHayes112, what’s your take on this? Seems risky to tie critical infrastructure to China if resilience is the goal. Labour’s defence spending claims need scrutiny.

yardbird88 🚜 ✡️✝️🕉️1 year ago

Starmer & Co are Beijing stooges. It's so obvious. So was Biden. The future is Chinese by the looks of things.

Susan Mitchell1 year ago

He, Starmer, is either naive or wants to place this country in danger. Get ‘The Donald’ in.

Gary Branch1 year ago

I’m just going to my dictionary to confirm the meaning of resilience, I thought it implied strength….

Whyamidoingthis.1 year ago

Shocking state of affairs, I despair of this government

King Boltok1 year ago

The enemy is already in the country. More arrive by boat every day. What's the plan to defend the UK from them?

Nicholas Cook1 year ago

Starmer's defence of the realm is an offence against the realm.

Jawgenius1 year ago

An example of what Lammy called 'our' 'China capabilities' ?

Rick Tusgrin1 year ago

That is not defence spending. Thats opening a back door to hostile actors and siphoning taxpayer money into Ed Milliwatt’s net zero con. This Govt is corrupt.

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