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Originally Posted by Carth
Paul is right about this sort of scenario being drip fed for months (if not years).
We have no army/navy/police in any great number, we have very little food reserves, water is getting to be a problem, power is a complete shit show (even after all the money thrown at the 'clean options).
Government (and previous) have taken their eye off the ball . . probably due to kicking it into the long grass.
I'm not worried about the thought of foreign attacks, I'm more worried about when the people here who have bugger all decide to take what they want . . . with violence  |
Err…
For all their flaws, I think the best signal we have that government at least recognises the problem was Burnham immediately sacking Rachel from Accounts and putting John Healey in the treasury instead. Reeves’ earlier decisions about defence spending, right at a time when the UK was deeply engaged with other European Nato members on the subject of increasing defence spending, demonstrated that she simply wasn’t capable of grasping that we do not presently live in a world where she can ignore defence and splurge money on progressive pet projects beloved of Labour activists. Healey was of course the defence secretary, who then resigned. So when he delivers his budget imminently, it will be delivered by a man who at least knows, in detail, the size of the problem, and the necessity of confronting it. That’s not to say he’ll be able to go far enough, sadly. We shall just have to see.