Keir Starrer tippt nach der nächsten Wahl zu Steuererhöhungen zur Finanzierung der Verteidigung

I thought Labour didn’t do that. This must be the new version

I’m not sure how much tax leeway the working class have left to tap.

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Anyone who thinks UK Defence doesn’t need more investment needs to listen to that Wargame podcast from Sky. Just because Russia isn’t going to invade the UK doesn’t mean that they won’t attack British interests and infrastructure. They’ve already used chemical and radiological weapons on British soil and have fired missiles at British aircraft over the Black Sea.

UK undersea cables and gas supplies are certainly vulnerable to submarine attack, and this could be done discreetly.

The UK has almost no air defence against a missile or drone attack. We’d need a Type 45 Destroyer to be in the right place at the right time to be able to conduct an intercept, and only 1-2 of those are available at one time.

The RAF has some capable combat aircraft in the Typhoon and F-35B, but nowhere near enough of them. Weapon upgrades to the F-35B are proceeding far too slowly; to conduct an air-to-ground mission, the jets would be stuck dropping bombs at point-blank range as they have no glide bombs or even short range air-to-ground missiles.

The UK doesn’t have enough armaments to fight anything other than a short and sharp conflict. Currently, there’s also not enough of an industrial base to quickly replenish armaments too.

The UK’s Defence Budget is actually lower than the 2-2.5% that is advertised due to the fact that military pensions were added into the pot in recent times.

Without a powerful conventional armed forces, the risk of nuclear war is raised. If a Russian attack did cause severe damage to the UK, politicians could well be forced to choose between throwing in the towel or resorting to a nuclear strike.

I’m really not sure how people can look at the world in its current state and think we don’t need to spend more on our military.

Heads buried firmly in the sand as per usual.

Not the £8-10 mio a day on illegal economic migrants / refugees….

Instead of raising taxes, just slash foreign aid. I’m so tired of working hard, being taxed, and the government throwing my money hand over fist at the rest of the world. I wish they’d spend that money on the country they’re supposed to represent.

I’m all for spending more on defence, we need to. But spend my money better before you come taking more. A manifesto on further tax increases is going to hand the government to Farage.

Money is fungible. Tax rises fund all government expenditure. He needs to cut back on the huge bureaucracy and welfare state.

Any more tax rises and we will be welcoming the Russians as liberators

You mean to service the ballooning benefit bill.

20% of those of working age in certain UK towns are now on disabled benefits. Even Manchester is 10%.

It’s absurd and getting worse.

Surely Starmer must know nothing he promises after the next election matters. He’s got about two years to do something – *anything* – radical enough to improve things to a degree that will change public opinion about him. Anything beyond that is a fantasy dream-world that will never come to pass.

Thats if he is in power. Who knows what stuff will happen in politics before then especially with smelly Farage about

Get fucking rid of the triple lock, pensioners cost us a fortune.

How about a 1% wealth tax on people with more than 5 mill in assets to fund defence

Give them a sense of noblesse oblige. If you are rich af and have extensive property commercial or residential here you pay the defence tax which keeps the country and your property safe.

Then we can use our existing tax structure to focus on infrastructure and money is freed up for that.

25k-32k a year salary is the hard limit for so many people in this country for what like a decade

People need to be able to atleast rent okay or get more access to housing.

I’m fine with increase in defense spending off a wealth tax.

We should also focus on civil nuclear energy and renewables that work in tandem with that.

Are taxes just going to rise until the end of time? Its this kind of nonsense which makes DOGE sound like a good idea.

Needs to replace the £3billion promised to Ukraine for the next century..

„Re elect me and I’ll raise taxes“!?!?!?!?! Is this for real?? So he’s just openly campaigning for Reform now. Perfect 

Well he can get fucked

cut the triple lock, cut aid spending , tax the rich property

leave workers alone

Also fuck spending the money on defense, spend it on the people, helping us get out of the many shit situations the public are stuck

But he won’t do any of that, it’s the working plebs who mhsf stuffer

We do we let this mob rule us?

„The prime minister insisted his government would stick to its manifesto promises but did not rule out introducing new taxes in 2029 to pay for security spending“

What a nothing-burger article.

Of fucking course the PM isn’t going to make manifesto promises for the next general election in 4 years time.

Surely cutting the approx £700mill spending on Diversity, equity and inclusion officers inside the civil service would be enough funding without needing a tax rise