Defence spending: Is 2.5% of GDP going to be enough?
Defence Secretary Grant Shapps discusses the prime minister's vow to boost defence spending to 2.5% GDP by 2030 and the Rwanda migration policy.
Former British army officer Colonel Simon Diggins told Sky News that spending should be closer to 3%. Mr Shapps says "the global defence industrial base hasn't expanded quickly enough to deal with the enormous requirements in Ukraine".
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They can’t even defend their beaches from dinghys….
and it will get worse when labour comes in power
But they need to let them land to keep the MP’s with something to do and aircraft industry busy taking them to Rwanda and then the return flights. Are they still paying the aFrench to keep them in France. Just the same as the warmongers need to get making more weapons of mass destruction to increase the national dept. for the investors. The English are a rich and diverse culture who have money to squander and ‘ intellectual’ ( lol) Leaders/ royalty who tend to the poor.
Why wasn't this announcement in the recent budget?
And we're still driving on roads full of potholes here in the uk👍
A proper defence apparatus is not defined by spending/squandering money, a multitude of factors some of them much more important are relevant.
So in other words Russia has demilitarised Ukraine and is well on the way to doing the same to Nato without huge amounts (100's billions) of additional deficit spending borrowing of Euro Atlantic member states govts (regimes) involved in the Ukraine War.
Yeah - doing what Europe wanted to do with NATO after the end of the Cold War but warmongering US/UK kept it going as part of the US military for obvious reasons. Are now squandering millions of taxpayers £ on weapons of mass destruction instead of improved infrastructure/ health care/ education etc.
If we tell zelensky your not joining nato we could spend the money at home on our nhs instead of a usa proxy war
another trap for labour,
Why? Starmer's brownshirts regularly say we are not spending enough.
What would this chap Schapps know? He couldn't even get the trains to run, let alone an army ...
All about profit and does he have ‘ sponsors’?
Can't Shapps has experience helping to raise funds. Previously posing as Michael Green, Shapps wrote and sold 'get rich quick' schemes - The Guardian investigation.
ABACUS Michael Green 😂
THEY WILL ROB THE POOR AND DISABLED TO GET THE MONEY FOR IT THEY KEEP SAYING IT WINNER TO KEEP THEM IN POWER
No, it will not be enough. Indeed, even thinking like that is not going to reset Defence
We know this is all about shareholder defence manufacturer profits and nothing else.
I like how he explained that even if they had more cash they couldn’t spend it. He’s absolutely right to spend that cash on a manufacturing base, also improving uk jobs. Sounds like he’s on the right track.
Scary.
Ever consider the possibility that "your' representatives may already have job assurances after they throw this war in favor of their future employers.
Of course they do, They have ‘sponsors’, consultancies etc. while in the job so they will have slightly more time on their hands if they get kicked out. They have at least 2 mortgages to keep going, and suddenly have to pay for goods/ services out of their own pocket. A hard life.
Ah, comments are disabled by Sky this time when interviewing him. I guess they're against this policy.
How about the UK just minds it's own business and we don't have to worry about defense or war.
Jeremy hunt is very quiet these days - don’t hear much about him ,
PER CAPITA THOUGH?!?
Will that be enough ? , Analysts will say : that has allready been priced inn !
Where is Sophy ? I wanna Sophy !
Best is despite this huge increase in military spending (if they actually go ahead with it), they're still cutting the size of the armed forces. Absolutely pathetic.
I don’t even know why we bother with a standing army, would much rather 70% of this money went into the navy it’s the only branch that makes sense to keep bolstering significantly that’s where our strength has always been so let’s play to it
The theory is that effectiveness is not entirely a product of size.
That makes sence for defense but the uk has never been about defense. Wer one of the most blood drenched, warmongering, genocidal cultures in history. Certain countries in the UK being worse than others. 3 guesses wich
@Josh-bn4lb yes but at the same time we still need more artillery and more infantry. There's still a chance of us getting directly involved. We don't need a military the size of WW2 but atleast 20k more infantry should suffice.
@32shumble which I get. But there has to be a limit. The Russian invasion of Ukraine has shown us numbers are still needed.
I’m sure it isn’t but the bare minimum is all we get as usual
If they mod stop wasting money in every department each year then yeah.
The navy used £ 19 million to shoot down a few cheap drones the other week. Loads of Money. They will all get medals for that.
A great way to start your day. Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
Certainly a large number of malevolent creatures in power.
Michael Green 😂
Need a standing army of 300k minimum tbh. Pathetic numbers right now
We dont even have an army ffs. We have a militia by pure numbers. No i dont count the ones that left that can get called back up if it kicks off
Depends on whether Russia defeats Ukraine, or not...
That is already a forgone conclusion. Ukraine is on its knees.
I support Russia
No it doesn’t. That may be an excuse but it’s still crap. They want to get a bit of profiteering in before the next General Election.
Michael Green Sebastian fox 😂😂😂
Lol, tory defence spending boost paid for by cutting defence spending.
By cutting disability benefit/ cutting sick note culture 🤪🤪🤪🤪
All Nato members need to get to this point. Germany? France? Italy? Spain? Step up EU.
They don’t want NATO to exist. Not since the end of the Cold War. Just warmongers US/ U.K. want it.
Recruitment is the problem and Shapps is not the leader we need
The Tories privatised recruitment at the cost of over a billion. So recruitment is outsourced to call centres and the joining process can take up to a year. Even though they failed to meet recruitment targets Capita's contract was renewed!
@@alien4422 yup, ive been joining the signals from nov last year, crazy how long my medical took alone, but should be soon now tbf, id say its more so 9 ish months. still way longer than it should though
Not Our Wars!
Would it no be cheaper and easier to just settle for peace?
war is the biggest money maker mate, dyor
There isnt even a peace deal on the table…
Tax wealth and make the rich pay for it. Fourteen years of the Tories lowering living standards and destroying public services means that I do not have anything worth fighting for. So if the balloon goes up I'm off to Thailand.
Exactly - pathetic infrastructure / health care/ education etc who would invade ? Or who would fight for 💩
Here's thought, how about we acknowledge that we no longer have the chest size to sit at the big fools table, remain in a neutral stance, put the defence money into the welfare of the citizens, close the borders properly to all those illegal entrants, build up a good gold reserve, become self-sufficient for the future of our population, we once had incredible talent for innovation, engineering, invention, yet the politicals keep selling those assets, we have no need to be global at the behest of outside interests.
imagine they sold ourland and energy to china and france, insane isnt it
Not a chance in hell - no profit in that. And what would the warmonger do?
@@niburu1508 Act even more pathetic?
Buying from abroad would mean less back handers for corrupt Tories. Thankfully they will not be in power long enough to see this through.
Yeah - they will be pushing hard for possibly their last feeding frenzy at the tax payers expense. N
To all the Russian bots, enjoy your mobilization 😂
It should be at least 5.5%
Defence against who? I didn't know we were being attacked by anyone.
Yes but we go around others at Americas behest
..Your Navy is sucks... near to junk..hope it had value in junkyard sale...
The main stream like sky news is the worst enemy to the people in the government we live She always asks brain damage questions
Them and TimesRadio are those very unfunny jokes. Propaganda/ Liars most of the media.
Hogwash
Increase the Defence spending to 4% for all NATO members. And enforce it!! .
More than a little rude this woman, unnecessarily so. I couldn't listen to anymore from her.
Grant Shapps 🤣
Get rich quick - guy?
Russia is winning the argument comprehensively on the battlefield and the final settlement will be 100% on Russia's own terms. Washington/London/Brussels over-gambled and should have took the partial win around 18 months ago with the Istanbul proposals.
Russia is on the rampage and we are twiddling our thumbs? time to build up our defences!
Many in UK support Russia 🇷🇺
@@brotherlestat305 Really? I suppose there were those who supported Hitler in the 1930`s? There is always a stupid element in any society.
2.5% is not enough , i think both *NHS & Education* big cut is needed to top up defence.
If we needed to raise it then we should scrap and the diversity crap and use the money from that.
Should be enough to provide a rainbow flag for every regiment..
2.5% just brings us back to 210 levels, pathetic.
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No, let's just plow more tax payer money into "defence" whilst we keep poking others who are way bigger than us It's a great strategy, I am sure that it has worked in the past
Works well for those patronised by the arms industry !
English warmongers never die
@@niburu1508 And don't fade away , like ls soldiers, either.
2.5% not enough, 25% is enough.
Shame we lost about 3% GDP after Brexit
But the profiteers done well out of Covid 19 and need a boost now from weapons of mass destruction before they get kicked out. But no guarantee of that happening with the English tricks.
No. It should be 8%
I think 10% to 25% is needed.
@@ahmedalsharman That percentage would cripple infrastructure, we need 8% for Military, 8% for housing, 8% for hospitals, 8% for schools, 8% Energy security (No more China ownership)! That's 40% at the moment all the above is around 15%. We don't need to cripple our Australia but we sure need to build her up. If governments looked after their people, their people would surely be proud to look after them!