{"id":1250,"date":"2025-06-02T14:02:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T13:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/riotandreason\/?p=1250"},"modified":"2025-06-05T12:27:54","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T11:27:54","slug":"starmers-defence-review-when-budgets-trump-peoples-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/riotandreason\/2025\/06\/02\/starmers-defence-review-when-budgets-trump-peoples-needs\/","title":{"rendered":"Starmer\u2019s defence review: when budgets Trump people\u2019s needs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-src=\"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/riotandreason\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/website-featured-image-9-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1264 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/576;width:1332px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/riotandreason\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/website-featured-image-9-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/riotandreason\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/website-featured-image-9-980x551.jpg 980w, https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/riotandreason\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/website-featured-image-9-480x270.jpg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>In a rare moment of clarity on defence spending by the UK government, Keir Starmer has announced a huge expansion. Avoidable deaths are happening under his nose, both at home and across the world. Feeding the war machine, this spending is out of control and out of touch. We should never be choosing bombs over basic human needs.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Starmer has today revealed that the UK will build up to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cz63y1yldq2t\">12 attack submarines and spend \u00a315 billion more on its nuclear weapons strategy<\/a>. With a clear focus on the threat of Russia &#8211; while again sweeping Gaza under the rug and treating the atrocities as someone else\u2019s problem &#8211; how and why are we spending so much?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are driving renewal across our country.<br><br>Creating new jobs, skills and opportunity, in defence industries like <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BAESystemsplc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BAESystemsplc<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DknNM9i7nB\">pic.twitter.com\/DknNM9i7nB<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Keir_Starmer\/status\/1929518078179655973?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn\u2019t really about defence. It\u2019s about ego, influence, and still being America\u2019s lapdog. NATO allies currently have a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nato.int\/cps\/en\/natohq\/topics_49198.htm\">defence investment guideline<\/a> of 2% of their GDP, set in 2014 by Heads of State and Government. Sounds democratic enough. Now, there&#8217;s pressure to push this to 3.5%. Yes, the world has changed, but fronting this change is Trump. And he wants more. Of course, whatever Trump does or wants, the UK embarrassingly seems to follow. And it\u2019s us paying the price.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A month into Trump\u2019s second presidency, Starmer\u2019s government announced that defence spending will rise to 2.5% of GDP by 2027. This came with an \u2018ambition\u2019 to reach 3% after the next general election. Sounds solid. At least we all have the same level of confidence in this government. And even if these weak plans do pull through, Starmer said this will be funded by cutting the UK\u2019s aid budget from 0.5% to 0.3% of GDP in 2027. Funding nukes over feeding the hungry &#8211; quite the priority list.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at an event on the UK\u2019s arms sales, Jeremy Corbyn says: \u201cWe&#8217;re a world threatened with environmental disaster, riven by inequality and poverty and injustice at a global level, as well as the inequality in our own society, and we are proposing to spend more and more money on weapons with the preparedness to go to war.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" data-src=\"https:\/\/jusmedia.co.uk\/riotandreason\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/42\/2025\/06\/IMG_0383-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1265 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 768px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 768\/1024;width:388px;height:auto\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Jeremy Corbyn at an arms sales discussion event in Sheffield<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Welfare vs warfare seems to be a moral conflict for the government. Recently, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.disabilityrightsuk.org\/news\/green-paper-published-%E2%80%93-%C2%A35-billion-cuts-proposed-scrapping-wca-and-changed-pip-assessment\">\u00a35 billion cut<\/a> to disability and out-of-work benefits was proposed, while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/prime-minister-sets-out-biggest-sustained-increase-in-defence-spending-since-the-cold-war-protecting-british-people-in-new-era-for-national-security#:~:text=The%20Prime%20Minister%20has%20today,of%20GDP%20from%20April%202027.&amp;text=Defence%20spending%20to%20increase%20to,3%25%20in%20the%20next%20parliament.\">increasing defence spending<\/a> to the highest levels since the cold war, with a \u2018reinvigorated approach to the defence industry\u2019. \u201cI know which I&#8217;d rather do. I&#8217;d rather help people who are living in poverty and distress and need that support because of their disabilities, rather than lining the pockets of already very, very wealthy arms dealers and arms brokers,\u201d says Corbyn.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shock &#8211; Corbyn is critical of the government. The same government that kicked him out of the party he had represented for four decades. But his criticism of warfare has extended longer than his parliamentary career. According to him, families aren\u2019t seen by the weapons industry. Instead: data. \u201cGo to arms fares around the world and you will find the surveillance equipment will be on sale. They\u2019ll say \u2018let&#8217;s show you how we used it in Palestine. We&#8217;ll show you how it worked in Ukraine,\u2019\u201d says Corbyn. \u201cThese conflicts become laboratories.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government\u2019s defence spending and associated sale of weapons to Israel have been raising <a href=\"https:\/\/palestinecampaign.org\/emergency-response-2023\/\">placards<\/a> as well as eyebrows up and down the country for months. But next to nothing has been done where it counts &#8211; inside Parliament. On 4 June, Corbyn is hoping to break the deafening silence by introducing a Private Member&#8217;s Bill. \u201cThis will call for a Chilcot-style inquiry &#8211; with teeth &#8211; into British policy making and arms purchases in relation to the conflict going on now against the Palestinian people,\u201d he says. The silence is shocking, and the inaction is deliberate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This week, I am presenting my Gaza Inquiry Bill to uncover the truth about this country\u2019s complicity in genocide. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wsbe9WeFQ2\">pic.twitter.com\/wsbe9WeFQ2<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeremycorbyn\/status\/1929462004261019775?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 2, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We can\u2019t avoid it. The geopolitical state of the world is scary. But Starmer\u2019s commitment to being \u201cwar-fighting ready\u201d, plunging us forward at a \u201cwar time pace\u201d is hardly reassuring. Particularly given how it&#8217;s being funded. With the risk of sounding like a Reform voter, we need to focus on problems closer to home. Creating more both nationally and internationally can never be justified. Not now. Not ever. Especially when fronted by an orange, self proclaimed saviour.<\/p>\n<span class=\"et_bloom_bottom_trigger\"><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a rare moment of clarity on defence spending by the UK government, Keir Starmer has announced a huge expansion. Avoidable deaths are happening under his nose, both at home and across the world. Feeding the war machine, this spending is out of control and out of touch. 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