This government loves giving away money and assets to foreign governments.They love taxing us to fund this largesse.
They gave away Chagos and a big dowry to Mauritius. So big a dowry Mauritius cuts Income tax whilst we pay more. China applauds Mauritius whilst the PM wrongly claims China is against the deal!
£500 m to France to control the small boats, which then increase in numbers.
The offer of money to the EU to put us under their laws which most of us do not want.
The offer to Spain/EU to run our borders in Gibraltar with their armed police on our sovereign key naval and air base. The Spanish PM is over the moon and still claims he wants to take over Gibraltar against international law and the views of Gibraltarians.
Then there is the payment to house thousands of illegal migrants in hotels because the government fails to implement its promise to smash the gangs.
Why is this government always against us? It is the government of international lawyers, by international lawyers for international lawyers.
June 13, 2025
All Starmer’s main policies are the same as Soros’ policies.
Britain has been infiltrated and subverted at the top and it happened as long ago as 1997 and possibly 1990.
June 13, 2025
Sorry, off topic.
Israel reportedly put up 200 attack aircraft to hit Iran — do we even HAVE 200 attack aircraft? Liebour still hasn’t caught up with the real world on threat analysis.
June 13, 2025
Peter
I doubt we have had that many aircraft for decades.
Many we actually have are not fully serviceable (info from a friend who served in the RAF and is still very interested in such matters)
I remember David C chopping up our very, very old Nimrods, then sold off Harriers to the USA for £1.00, who then used and improved that technology.
We are now buying back aircraft with that technology for eventual use on our Carriers at £100’s of Millions.
This is called Political common-sense !!!!!
Clueless absolutely clueless, just like having diversity sourced pilots.
June 13, 2025
Israel attacks Iran. Trump does nothing.
Pretends he seeks peace in the world but continues to supply arms and funding to Israel and vote down UN resolutions on Gaza.
The White House, since Johnson, has long been Israeli-occupied territory. It’s just that they are becoming more brazen.
June 14, 2025
Are you happy to allow Iran to have nuclear weapons Peter?
They have said they want to obliterate Israel just for starters.
June 13, 2025
The IEA confirmed in a report that Iran has stopped co-operating. Israel states that Iran had the capacity to produce 15 bombs in short order.
They must have been given the go ahead by the super-powers.
Tremendously accurate strikes – on key personnel too. They must have fantastic intelligence – Iranians themselves have been very unhappy.
The U.K. is not the equal of Israel. Not even morally. 😭
June 13, 2025
IAEA – not the IEA, sorry.
This however is a serious infringement. Even Russia is saying that they want Iran to be non-nuclear in the same statement that they condemn the Israeli attack. Iran has just joined BRICS. Russia offers to ‘mediate’.
The U.K. Government on the wrong side, as usual. They are so terrified of all the women, children and babies they have allowed into our country that they no longer have much option. They have snookered themselves.
June 13, 2025
Snowdrop
+1
There are so many groups that want one world governance to control the, in their view, too large world population!
Sadly, this bunch are fully on board with the idea of nation states being irrelevant! The evidence is clear, wanting national sovereignty makes you a terrorist!
June 13, 2025
It started long before 1990. But, with hindsight, that was the first very obvious time they showed their hand.
June 13, 2025
Sir John,
As far as Gibraltar goes, its just one small step to go from being in the Shengen zone with all the immigration and customs checks that implies to being under full Spainish (EU) control. So, certainly another sellout by the Foreign Secretary and Prime Minister.
June 13, 2025
I love how you brexiters are now so very troubled for Gibraltar. I didn’t notice any such concern when Gib voted 96% to stay in the EU in 2016. They, like the people of Northern Ireland, knew how disastrous Brexit would be for our once-united county. Still, you knew what you voted for, right?
Reply You clearly hate democracy. Gibraltar voted by a huge majority to stay in the UK. The UK voted to leave the EU. Gibraltarians did not vote on either occasion to have armed Spanish police telling them what to do.
June 13, 2025
Gib residents always seem happy when we have visited on occasion.
Spain do not like the special tax status and zero VAT which funds most of Gibs upkeep.
Guarantee that would end if Spain gained full control.
June 13, 2025
Gibraltar is not in the UK.
June 13, 2025
If it isn’t “in” the UK then what other country is it “in”
You are being pedantic Gordon.
June 14, 2025
A British Overseas Territory for over 300 years. Not part of UK. They have their own government and parliament. Does that help?
June 14, 2025
Yes I know that MT
“Not part of the UK” you say.
Pedantic use of the word “part” by you in my opinion Is it part of another country then?
June 13, 2025
+1
June 13, 2025
@Know-Dice – he has majority support from the UK’s Legislators, 650 elected in the house of commons plus around 800 unelected in the house of lords. Without this majority support therefore approval he would have been doomed to fail.
June 13, 2025
Why is this government always against us, you ask. A rhetorical question I assume because I’m quite sure you know the answer.
It’s the ideology of those in the party, an ideology the Conservatives (watered down a little, granted) emulated from Cameron onward, and got severely bitten for it.
There are no other principles or factors involved, the ideology must be served.
June 13, 2025
Two-Tier, in a very rare example when his lips were moving and he wasn’t lying, told Emily Maitless that if he had to choose between Westminster (ie the UK and British Democracy) and Davos (Globalists and Oligarchy) he’d choose Davos because that’s where the real work gets done.
He is not working in our interests. He had no intention of working in our interests. He believes his role is to ensure that the UK is governed in the interests of Globalists, hobbled by Global Institutions and “International Law” to ensure that the UN’s “levelling down” Agenda 21 and Agenda 2030 are implemented.
June 13, 2025
Donna
+1
June 13, 2025
Bullseye…unfortunately, our political and media class, with few exceptions, do not follow what has been spelled out clearly. The globalists want no borders, one level of tax, control of resources and your freedom. They see the people with loyalty to a country as the problem, hence the determined attempt to dilute their voices.
June 13, 2025
Good morning.
I am quite sanguine about all this, which surprises even me.
Why ? Because when you are either a lone voice, or of a minority opinion it take a great deal of self belief and courage to continue. Having more and more people join you one what was, at first, a lonely path beefs up ones moral and strengthens ones conviction in their belief(s).
Whilst no one, including myself, condones the events in Southport, Balleymena and elsewhere, they are clear signs that people have realised that which I have long believed and stated – That we do NOT live in a democracy. I have said this here on this website many times and, when you deny people the right to express their views peacefully and take into account their concerns you leave little room for anything else.
Who here who voted for this government believed that they would do the things they have thus far done ? And who here agrees with its actions and think that this is for the greater good ?
June 13, 2025
I was very disappointed in the response of the PSNI chief to call it out as racism. The youth on the other end of a machete might have been a racist, but most likely just a thug. Between the police and the criminal element are ordinary citizens like us who don’t engage in criminal activity, not because the police hold us in check, but because we are law-abiding by nature. We establish the order in society. When government alienates the law-abiding citizens, they are defenestrated from their activity in maintaining civility and violence breaks out.
The government needs to remove these asylum seekers from the trouble areas to diffuse the situation, and place them in communities that welcome them for their own safety. Might I suggest Labour MPs’ homes?
June 13, 2025
Neighbourhood watch in Northern Ireland has always been more active and, arguably, effective.
Sinn Fein has now moved from ‘Brits Out’ to illegal immigrants’ friend.
June 13, 2025
I didn’t vote for them because I knew they would do what they have done.
They boast that they are getting asylum seekers out of hotel rooms, to save the taxpayer money. What they don’t tell us, is that they are buying up some hotels, with taxpayers money, to put the asylum seekers in. They are also, using taxpayers money, to pay private landlords, above the odds to house asylum seekers. They prefer to keep this quiet.
That is why I have no reason to trust this Government.
June 13, 2025
C G
Exactly
June 13, 2025
Thank you for your kind reply. But with respect, the questions were not aimed at you, they were aimed at those who voted for the Labour Party.
Can those people here who voted this government in please come forward ?
Thank you.
June 13, 2025
Indeed. We have a government who seem to be acting against voters amd tax payers at every turn. Doom to economics, net zero insanity, the dire WHO pandemic treaty, Chagos, daft energy policies, rip off energy, mad tram policies, Gibralta, NI riots…
So illegal immigrants get many, legal aid funded, appeals but Lucy Letby whose convictions are very clearly unsafe (all 15 of them) is denied one.
June 13, 2025
Doom loop economics rather!
June 13, 2025
It is abdication of responsibilities by those, nominally in charge, who do not have a clue how to run a whelk stall let alone a country. The only early solution is a run on the pound plus a failure to sell gilts to fund this government causing it to fall, followed by an early election. None of the political parties has a ready made policy platform. But whoever then gains power will have to concentrate on the essential priority of cutting back the bloated state.
June 13, 2025
Hot to run a country – Get the government out of the way and leave the whelk store owners. The Labour agenda is to over tax, over regulate, unfairly compete with them (schools, healthcare, housing, transport…and kill them.
Some regard private enterprise as if it were a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look upon it as a cow that they can milk. Only a handful see it for what it really is – the strong horse that pulls the whole cart.”
― Winston Churchill
June 13, 2025
Unfortunately not just this Government John, for decades whenever our Prime Ministers have gone abroad, or even welcomed other heads of State here, it has cost us money.
Those in charge call it “soft Power” unfortunately it just means they are soft in the head, it seems like we (the UK) give, they take, but we get nothing in return, not even goodwill in many cases.
We are now in the situation where the Government is taking more and more of OUR TAX PAID MONEY in the form of ever increasing taxes, to squander at will on their own uncounted pet projects and fantasy policies.
I see it is being reported that the Government is now “investing” (buying) Hotels for Illegal immigrants and asylum seekers, so it can say it is reducing the cost of renting.
There appears to be no end to the frittering away of £billions of taxpayer funded cash.
June 13, 2025
Ms Reeves announced increased funding to deal with the asylum backlog and the intended closure of migrant hotels before the next election. Or in other words ‘we’re going to increase the attractiveness of the UK to economic migrants by offering permanent accommodation to them once they’re here’.
June 13, 2025
Why is this government always against us
WHY Because they are Anti-British 🇬🇧🏴
June 13, 2025
I like the latest wheeze (not) of the government, buying up the hotels which the migrants use and calling them government buildings. They really do think we’re stupid.
As for Gibraltar what is there to say. As with Chagos there is no limit to the surrender of territory to foreign powers, no matter how strategically important. No doubt the Falklands will be next because they have vast oil and gas resources so if Argentina own them it will be better for Net Stupid.
I think it’s not long before this government will have to be physically removed on security grounds.
June 13, 2025
One thing missing from the reports of the Gibraltar deal is how much we are paying the EU, because you can be sure that joining Schengen and the Customs Union will surely come with a hefty fee.
June 13, 2025
This situation has been evolving over many years in front of our eyes.We have encouraged it and even legislated in favour of it.
The UK has educated the world, we have opened our borders to anyone, illegal or legal, who wants to come here, and we have continued to give money to help other countries without really thinking that those countries are already wealthy and are able to fend for themselves.
As a nation the UK is seen to be weak and will do anything for anyone at the expense of the UK taxpayer.We have squandered money and have ignored our countries own needs and well being.
The Chagos giveaway is an obvious and blatant example of this where opportunities to create wealth for the UK have been missed.
We have lost control.The white British are now likely to be in the minority before too long and we have become truly an international country; our identity has been lost.
What next;Will Christianity give way to a predominantly Muslim population?
June 13, 2025
To the last question: of course!
June 13, 2025
Well done Israel for standing up to the mad Mullahs. They are fighting on our behalf whilst our government and the EU actively import insurgents. The tide may be about to turn.
June 13, 2025
Long live Israel and the Jewish people. I am ashamed that our idiot government and some others attacked Israel by sanctioning a couple of politicians.
They don’t have the guts to sanction Hamas.
June 13, 2025
🙏🏻
June 13, 2025
I agree, well done Israel, acting in a way to make us all a bit safer.
In fact they have done what U.S.A. should have done (Obama was useless) to stop North Korea getting nuclear weapons. Pakistan should also have been stopped because even if the Pakistani regime then wasn’t reckless, it could easily be changed into a mad Islamic regime.
June 13, 2025
We have a two-tier benefit system. If you live in the UK, your Winter Fuel Allowance will be means-tested. Live abroad, and it won’t. The same applies to Child Benefit. Next, they will do the same with the state pension. People living in the UK have become second-class citizens, and our politicians don’t care or are too thick to understand what they are doing.
June 13, 2025
They believe we are compliant. They are right aren’t they? We can name those who put up a fight in England (Tommy Robinson) but in NI everybody was disgusted that their girls were raped.
They are even fighting in the Irish Republic.maybe their government does not arrest them for very much less.
June 13, 2025
Socialism depends upon making and keeping people poor. With the current PM you can add national humiliation and mass immigrationto destroy the national identity.
June 13, 2025
Why do they give it away? Because it is not their money so they do not seek value just the next soundbite.
The Conservatives were the same but at least they believed that taxes should be lowered where possible whereas Labour believe we want to be taxed to pay for their misguided largesse.
The Overton window is moving towards a more patriotic, protectionist outlook but not quickly enough.
June 13, 2025
Continuing the trend of fight the people, fight the Nation. Once there is nothing left they will make flight in hope that those they rewarded will reciprocate – in their dreams.
Parliament, the UK’s Legislators and the Blob that is infested with Socialist WEF disciples thinking that their New World order will reward them.
We must never forget it is the majority of the UK’s Legislators the HoC & the HOL that are in support of this direction other-wise it wouldn’t be happening. In fact it is the unelected unaccountable that have been handed the upper hand it is the minions that just pay their wages and the costs they have created.
Good bye UK, good bye Great Britain, England, NI, Scotland & Wales – the World rejoices
June 13, 2025
It’s not just the government. The whole of the public sector is against us. Our bureaucratic institutions do not see it as any part of their role to assist. For example, if a small charity submits a set of accounts to the Charity Commission with an error in them, that body will reject the accounts, but will not say what the problem is or offer any suggestion of how it might be corrected. The same is true of all the other regulatory bodies. Your local council will refuse to process any request unless the correct form has been completed and a fee paid. This was not previously the case. The police regard all members of the public as a threat, tasering and pepper spraying anyone who is a little bit argumentative. Hospitals function for their convenience; your time counts for nothing and do not expect to be kept informed as to what might happen or when. Just sit and wait patiently. Do not complain or they will accuse you of being intimidating, refuse to treat and you and eject you.
June 13, 2025
This really can’t be allowed to go on.
He who pays the piper MUST call the tune.
June 13, 2025
“Why is this government always against us?” asks Sir John, and answers his own question: “It is the government of international lawyers, by international lawyers for international lawyers.”
No doubt, but who can fathom these incalculable people? Is there not something about them that treachery itself would not trust?
Leading one’s country is no longer the summit of a political career, just an apprenticeship to richly rewarded service on international bodies where the inconveniences of democracy may safely be ignored, power is not chastened by responsibility, and one keeps company (and faith) only with like-minded global grandees.
June 13, 2025
There is also the cocaine aspect. Nobody who has ever been on drugs should be allowed to stand for any elected office. Indeed they should be banned from being employed by the state in any capacity.
June 13, 2025
Following 2Tier’s trading fishing for acess to EU arms money, while we chip in, our French friends have objected to this and would rather make the stuff themselves. Mr Bean would make a better PM.
June 13, 2025
Yes, as reported in the DT today. Our “dear friends and allies,” having got 12 years access to our fishing grounds (which will destroy the British fishing industry) are now acting to block British Defence Suppliers from accessing the EU’s fund to improve European defence.
Two-Tier, and our pathetic Civil Service, couldn’t possibly see that one coming ….
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/06/12/france-blocking-britain-from-eu-massive-defence-fund/
June 13, 2025
I can confirm that that is entirely true. Very good brian, Masters in Electronic and Electtical engineering (Queen’s, Oxford) earned and invests his own money, a lover of ICE vehicles, never taken drugs, and wholly British.
June 13, 2025
Is there nothing that our PM will not give away!
The list gets ever longer; Chagos, Fish, Gibralter, parts of our sovereignty, money – money money …. how long before the Falklands is no longer British?
This is called A S S E T – S T R I P P I N G
There are no real justifications for any of these give-aways.
With the economy taking a dive in April we are following France into a deep decline that will take a huge effort to get out of, if we ever do! You’d think HMG would concentrate on improving our situation instead of distributing our meagre resources to anybody that wants them – but all we get is hot air, promises and deceit.
It’s a disaster when a government turns against it’s own people – tragically that has already happened!
June 13, 2025
Well let’s keep all this in mind and make sure we vote next time in such a way as to maximise the chances of removing Labour. That will of course mean that Conservatives living eg in the red wall should vote reform. But it also means that
those Reform voters living in constituencies where there is now a Labour or Libdem MP because the centre-right was split, will need to vote Conservative. Perhaps there are one or two such voters reading this site.
June 13, 2025
Britain has effectively been hijacked by air heads, arrogant and ruthless non-entities who treat us like sheep and lambs to the proverbial slaughter.
They need to be sectioned as they are acting with impunity, like agents foreign powers.
June 13, 2025
How many people making comments about Gibraltar have actually been there? Have crossed the border between Gibraltar and La Linea? Have seen how many people do each day for work and how the economy of Gibraltar benefits from, and to some extent depends on, a relatively frictionless border crossing?
Having Spanish immigration at Gibraltar airport is much the same as having French immigration at Dover or St. Pancras International (which has been the case for many, many years).
Reply I have
June 13, 2025
I have Peter, many times.
The crossing is in the main Spanish people coming into Gibraltar daily for the many thousands of good jobs that Gibraltar provides them.
The Spanish border staff sometimes play up their own citizens and create delays.
It’s sad to see them searching every car on odd days.
It is done deliberately for political purposes not for security reasons.
Will the next stage after this dreadful deal be the loss of VAT free goods and duty free benefits for people arriving from the UK followed by the maximum 90 day stay rule as in Schengen EU countries?
June 14, 2025
It’s not just Spanish people, many of the ex-pat Brits I used to meet when travelling there for work lived in La Linea the surrounding area due to being able to get bigger, better properties at lower cost due to Gibraltar’s limited space, limited housing and restrictions on purchasing (having to have Gibraltarian ancestry to purchase in certain areas).
There is a known issue with smuggling into Spain of duty/VAT-free goods such as cigarettes purchased in Gibraltar. The Spanish border staff are simply protecting their border, and such checks are often random to avoid the existence of predictable patterns which help smugglers. UK border staff do the same.
My experience was that it was cheaper to buy goods in the shops in Gibraltar rather than duty free at the airport (at either end), although I don’t know if that is still the case.
June 14, 2025
I’ve watched many times as Spanish border guards were on a deliberate go slow developing queues on both sides stretching back with many hours of delays.
Their and your claim that they were only searching for cheap cigarettes is a red herring.
The decision to do this action was imposed at central government level to force the issue of the sovereignty of Gibraltar.
Let’s hope this dreadful deal will reduce this nonsense.
But I am doubtful.
June 13, 2025
We are nearing the point where a majority of working age people in Britain do not work.
It is pointless badgering the natives to work, or reducing their benefits, when we know that we want to take their children into institutions to raise, tax them and give the money to foreigners who will never work.
In my opinion the sooner the British government is bankrupted the better. They need to lose power and it seems our best hope is the IMF.
At that point we need to ensure that we have two capable and patriotic parties for which we can vote.
June 13, 2025
This is in line with my thinking. If the government, of whatever hue, cannot or will not control spending, then external forces must act on their behalf.
June 13, 2025
When you consider government action on the Chagos, the EU wooing, the attitude to Israel, it becomes all too obvious that there is a major fault line running through the Foreign Office. Politicians do not act in isolation even if they mouth off in isolation. You could add illegal immigration to the pot, failure on a monumental scale or deliberate.
I do not feel so concerned about Gibraltar because the people of Gibraltar seem happy with it. Many U.K. visitors to the Costa del Sol use Gibraltar as a point of entry or exit. Shengen therefore needs a facility to deal with this. Some 15,000 Spanish workers enter and exit Gibraltar daily. Spain needs a facility of control of its own population and any goods they may carry. Contraband cigarettes and illegal immigrants are an industry in that part of the World. Morroco is only 15 miles away and in a 40mph speedboat only a few minutes.
With the level of satisfaction of the deal by those directly involved should be accepted. The ultimate test is how it works in practise. Time is the arbiter of that.
June 13, 2025
Don’t forget local councils, my high street now has over 75% foreign shops ie takeaways, mini-marts, barbers, nail-bars, even two massage parlours etc ….they all granted retail licence to get the business rate silver
Each shop employs 10s and houses above 20s foreign people …my culture has disappeared within a decade
*****and I live in a nice area****so whats it like in other areas, no wonder reform are winning everywhere
June 13, 2025
After a few warm sunny days in between the downpours water companies remind us to be careful of wasting this precious resource – to fix dripping taps and pipes on our property, ETC.
If we do get water shortages it will be because water companies have not been doing their day job, by NOT building adequate reservoirs and NOT repairing leaking pipes fast enough.
Yet they and HMG will put the onus on us so that they can restrict and make more expensive our usage by imposing smart* water meters on us.
It’s disgraceful what HMG allow water companies to get away with under the banner of of Net-0.
*For SMART read ‘ Ability for supply to be turned off remotely’
June 13, 2025
Contrast that with Donald Trump who stands up for his country!
June 13, 2025
Everything this Labour government is doing is a disaster; they obviously hate the UK and can’t wait to give it away to the EU. They won’t stop immigration, legal or illegal, because they want to destroy the UK’s culture.
If you study the fall of the Greek and Roman empires, you will see that they were destroyed by precisely what is happening in the UK now. Debt, Immigration and a loss of moral values.
It will take massive pain for the people, massive courage from our leaders, and massive determination to reverse
the slide to anarchy and to deal with our debt. When a nation stops defending its borders and culture, it ceases to be a nation!
June 13, 2025
Today we learn of rising tensions in the Middle East, the first thing to change is that energy/fuel prices have risen on the markets.
The UK in this, with Two Tier Government team, along with the support from the majority in Parliament (HoC & HoL),it is denied its opportunity to respond. The UK’s Legislators have refused the UK using its own resources, they must at all times be imported and payment made to others. The UK’s economy has been handed over to these others and their whims. In addition, the UK is now denied the opportunity to protect its interest – supply chains etc. without first seeking permission from the Mauritius Government (along with paying them for the privilege)
Who controls the UK? ….not any one empowered by the electorate and not anyone paid to keep us safe and secure. But anyone the majority of UK’s Legislators (HoC & HoL) can find to hand it over to.
Why are they there at all?
June 13, 2025
You ask, why is this government always against us?
It is a performative defiance of the population, enabled by the circumstance that with only 20% support from the electorate – less than Corbyn’s electoral support in 2019 – it carries a vast Common majority.
And the Conservative Party – like the Hapsburgs – has still learnt nothing and forgotten nothing.
June 13, 2025
Perhaps we could give away all the lefty lawyers ..
June 13, 2025
“Why is this government always against us?”
Because they’re Marxists who wish to destroy our country both economically and culturally. They want to end posperity and any nationhood or pride in our country so that they can rule as they do in Russia, China, Cuba, North Korea etc. They want to humiliate us on the World stage with surrender deals such as Chagos. They want the country to become part of the third world and are using mass immigration to achieve it with the intention that the resulting social unrest can enable them to bring in tougher laws and restrictions and a one party state. Any protesters are imprisoned whilst the unidentified invaders are rewarded with free 4 star hotel accomodation, free health and social care, £40/week pocket money, free entertainment and training and the complete freedom to roam our streets at will even around schools. BTW, the PM says he will “smash the gangs” who are assisting the invaders to cross the Channel but takes no action against any of the “charities” who are openly assisting these Channel crossings.
June 13, 2025
Starmer hates the White/Heritage British. He’s in hock to the EU. He is in the process of taking us back into the clutches of brussels. Unfortunately we’re stuck with him for four more years. How much damage will he do in that time?
June 13, 2025
52 criminals (young men) were assisted into the UK yesterday; and escorted from the safe country of France…
June 13, 2025
Source… Matthew Lynn, The Telegraph
“Britain will regret abandoning the North Sea now Israel has attacked Iran
The UK is at the mercy of a volatile energy market because it cannot rely on its own resources ”
Those in the UK empowered and paid to serve the nation, along with those unelected appointees whom are all part of the Countries Legislator have by there actions decreed the inhalation of the Country and its people.
The UK should no longer pretend to be a sovereign democracy when by decree those voted under a different pretence have created a Marxist State with a Politburo in charge
June 13, 2025
Trashing a Country before viable, self-reliant and resilient alternatives were in place or even found could be said to be the height of stupidity, but it was always part of the plan – the Great WEF reset.
June 13, 2025
There are very few, if any, ‘international’ lawyers in Parliament. Our own indigenous British lawyers and Judges are mostly just as bad as international lawyers and Judges. Parliamentary lawyer-politicians are nowadays mostly bad but much worse in principle are those lawyers and Judges who manage to exercise political power via legal Judgements without the democratic accountability of their job depending upon periodic elections.
June 13, 2025
If the UK had not got involved in the daft wars of Afghan and Iraq after 9/11, we could have then spent the money – wasted on those wars – on a Dome Defensive system against ballistic missiles / hypersonic missiles and drones.
Israel’s initial budget for its Dome system back in 2007 was $100 millions. Peanuts compared to the total cost of the British tax payer on Afghan and Iraq wars post 9/11. £20 Billion.
Lastly, NOT going to war at the time was not rocket-science. Blix hadn’t been given the chance to find WMD. And we all knew that you don’t find wars in Afghan for lots of reasons. I was vehemently against them precisely for these obvious reasons (but I’m a hawk when it’s the right war).
The UK spent £20 Billion on these daft post 9/11 wars that also had important geopolitical fall-out – as well as, above all, the terrible waste of the lives of our soldiers (and others).
June 13, 2025
Also, building a Dome System for the UK would have boosted our economy and we could have then sold similar defensive technology to friendly nations. What a waste.