"This government will begin the biggest sustained increase in defence spending since the end of the Cold War" PM Keir Starmer announces the UK will raise defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2027 Follow live

"We're going to give more tax money away to Boeing, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. By the way, your energy bills are going up again. Fuck the working class!"

Next he has to decide who pays.......

So all this talk of 'black holes' in the budget was nonsense? Or are they going to cut spending elsewhere?

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Black holes just got a whole new meaning! I'm curious, how exactly do they plan to fill this sudden defence spending gap without cutting vital public services? Or are we going to take on more debt like it's going out of style?

@BBCNews Looking forward to seeing how the right will spin this as bad.

Unification of Continental Europe, merging the armies and treating every sovereign state as equal, would restore and defend Ukraine without the cost and bloodshed.

So that's it. Not enough to do anything. America going, nato going and starmer comes up with this. Pathetic. Weak. Dangerous.

Hopefully he’s out by then

A cold war-sized defense budget.

I don't think Joe public grasps that we literally have no army to deploy and maintain in a combat zone. It will take tens of billions to get back there.