The Uk does need to spend more on defence to modernise and make its forces more effective.It also needs to spend the budget better.
Under the current government we have hit a new low. 6 naval vessels decommissioned before there are any replacements . Most the rest of the fleet undergoing deep maintenance at the same time, or unavailable for duty owing to a shortage of money and bad planning.
The high costs of the Ajax military vehicle programme continue with too few working vehicles delivered. The government reviews the next generation fighter plane programme, delaying this multinational collaboration with lack of enthusiasm and cash.It has the money to hire in a new flotilla of boats to pick up illegal migrants at sea, but not the money for coastal patrol vessels to protect our undersea cables and pipes.
It has the money to pay the salaries of 55,000 civil servants to direct the phantom navy and the tiny army, and to pay 1500 senior officers who command desks in the absence of battalions and squadrons.
Meanwhile the Ukraine and Gulf wars show us how quickly warfare is changing. Where are our drones, ballistic missiles and robots to defend our islands and to intervene when our commerce and interests abroad are harmed? When will we replace all the munitions and weapons we have given Ukraine?
June 15, 2026
“Where are our drones..?”
They are in Ukraine. We have factories here churning them out, just to give £800m worth of them away to be fired at Russia or Russians.
There’s no point in increasing the defence budget until we have a sensible foreign policy for a country of our size, means and (hopefully) realistic ambitions for our people.
June 15, 2026
When will we replace all the munitions and weapons we have given Ukraine
Well I suppose never , but look on the bright side I’m sure we could muster up a dads army headed by Captain Mainwaring and a few stupid boys to defend our island surrounded by water, like every thing else Britishness as very nearly disappeared with the help from Liebour/Tories/Libdems over the decades we are a laughing stock around the globe it’s just hasn’t sunk in to our politicians skulls yet