>Politics latest: John Healey resigns as defence secretaryhttps://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-keir-starmer-peter-mandelson-files-defence-investment-kemi-badenoch-12593360
>>53684950112:12Defence Secretary John Healey resignsDefence Secretary John Healey has resigned.In a post on social media, Healey posted a letter which he "never expected to write", addressed to Sir Keir Starmer.The resignation comes as the defence investment plan is still yet to materialise.It also comes after Sky's security and defence editor Deborah Haynes reported last night that the UK's military chief had written to the prime minister amid concerns that an offer of around an extra £13bn to help fund a major investment plan for defence is not enough.In Healey's resignation letter, he writes: "This era for defence required further investment through the defence investment plan. "The excellent and extensive cross-government work that completed in January - overseen by you, me and the chancellor - confirmed the scale of the challenge and the rising demands on defence."Since then, you have been unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling, to commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats."Watch Sky's Deborah Haynes describe the news as an 'extraordinary development'The letter adds: "However, your DIP financial settlement – which I was first given in full on Monday afternoon this week – falls well short of what is required for defence and the country at this dangerous time."The extra support is backloaded when the pressure of operations and imperative to speed up readiness to fight is in the first two years and it rises to just 2.68% of GDP in 2030, when we will reach 2.6% next year with the investment we are already making."And he then writes: "You know what defence needs. You made the argument for this powerfully in your speech at the Munich Security Conference back in February. (1/2)
>>536849572"Without a DIP that meets the moment in this way, I am being forced to make decisions that would reduce the readiness of our forces and increase the risk to personnel on operations, and could make the country less safe."After explaining to you that I would not be able to accept a DIP settlement that does not give our forces the resources they need, I am now left with no other option than to submit my resignation as your defence secretary."(2/2)
12:44What are the numbers Healey is angry about?In his resignation letter, former defence secretary John Healey gives details about his reasons for resignation.He writes: "However, your [defence investment plan] financial settlement – which I was first given in full on Monday afternoon this week – falls well short of what is required for defence and the country at this dangerous time."The extra support is backloaded when the pressure of operations and imperative to speed up readiness to fight is in the first two years and it rises to just 2.68% of GDP in 2030, when we will reach 2.6% next year with the investment we are already making."He appears to be suggesting that the proposals from Sir Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves is to increase defence spending by only 0.08% in the next few years.As Sky News political correspondent Rob Powell says, it is a case of "the reality not getting anywhere near the rhetoric".
12:36What is the defence investment plan?John Healey has resigned as defence secretary over the prime minister's failure to agree on the defence investment plan (DIP).The plan was meant to be published last autumn but has faced a series of delays as government departments could not agree on where the money would come from - and how much.It is due to set out how new equipment and defence infrastructure will be funded over the next decade.Last night, Sky's security and defence editor Deborah Haynes reported that a figure of around £13bn to fund the investment plan had been agreed - but that the UK's military chief had written to the prime minister amid concerns that the offer was not enough.The Ministry of Defence's budget is due to rise by 3.6% in real terms by 2029.The DIP is meant to replace annual decade-long equipment plans, which were released on a rolling yearly basis until 2022, when the former government halted publication as inflation rose.On Sunday, the Public Accounts Committee, which scrutinises public spending, said delays in publishing the DIP have undermined the UK's credibility with its allies.It has meant a hold up in procuring the latest equipment, which will now be more expensive as a result, they said.The delay is "hindering the government's attempt to modernise the Armed Forces", the committee said.Sir Keir Starmer has refused to say when the plan would be published, just that it would be before the NATO summit on 7 July.
12:51NATO chief: I respect Healy 'very much'Reaction to the resignation of John Healy is swarming in.Mark Rutte, the secretary general of NATO, was asked about the development at a news conference.He said that while he had not heard about the resignation, he added that he respects Healey "very much".'Good on Healey'Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat, who is a former soldier, said Healey's letter is the "right letter to send".And his colleague James Cleverly said: "Have always respected John Healey."He clearly takes defence of the realm and defence of our interests more seriously than either Keir Starmer or Rachel Reeves."The damning line is 'you have been unable, and the Treasury has been unwilling, to commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats'. It highlights Starmer's weakness."There are also more partisan attack lines, with shadow business secretary Andrew Griffith tweeting.And John Lamont, the Conservative MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk, said the letter was "absolutely scathing".Reform MP Robert Jenrick said: "This government has all the money in the world for Ed Milliband's mad plans, foreign aid, and benefits for foreigners. But nothing for our armed forces."Good on John Healey. Shame on them. Reeves and Starmer should go too. And with them this wretched Labour government."
>UK military chief writes to PM amid worry over defence spending plan https://news.sky.com/story/military-chief-writes-to-pm-in-unusual-move-as-hopes-of-major-announcement-this-week-dashed-13552902
>>536849501I Own You
might go to the Nuclear NATO Satanic Sacrifice Ritual later on todaymight not though
>>536850508currently playing: Skrillex - Scut 2
>>536850508>>536850591it is vital to national security that YOU WONT DO SHIT
>>536849501just was gonna come here to post it myself. is this the start of the fall of starmer?
defence to 0%
>Defence Secretary Healey Resignswho cares?keir is tuff enuff
found the real>>536848056real>>536848056real>>536848056real>>536848056real>>536848056real>>536848056ignore the sky copy and paste cuckhold
>>536850693It's not the beginning but it has to be the end. If he doesn't leave this afternoon the security services must "compel" him to leave. Right now. Get rid of the entire Labour government of traitors and retards at the same time, by any means necessary.
>>536851246we're all here boyo >>536848056
>>536851326Why be so desperate to keep saying it if everyone's already in there you insecure fool?
>>536851394we're all in here lad come over >>536848056
>>536849501MOD asked for 28 billion, bare minimum.Actually needs 60 billion to do what is asked.Awarded 13 billion.It's over.
>>536851617Prepare to die. Stock up, eat well, stay fit, but prepare to die.
>>536851246
>>536851617Prepare to copy and paste from sky.com/news
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>>53685176713:39Armed forces minister reacts to his boss resigningOne of those who could be in the running to replace John Healey as defence secretary is Al Carns, the armed forces minister.A former soldier, Carns has posted a statement praising Healey, but also not resigning.It keeps him in place to potentially replace Healey.Carns says: "John Healey has given this country serious service in a serious time."He took on the Ministry of Defence at a moment when the world was getting more dangerous, not less, and he carried that weight with the discipline and decency that the job demands."I worked alongside him closely. I saw the hours, the care, and the seriousness he brought to every brief, including the hardest ones. There are issues facing this department that do not lend themselves to easy answers. The work on funding, on veterans, on legacy, on the welfare of those who serve."The threats facing this country have not paused for a change of secretary of state. Our armed forces remain on operations around the world, standing with our allies, protecting our interests, and keeping the British people safe. They deserve a Ministry of Defence that matches their seriousness with our own."That is the job. It continues today."
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op is a faggot but that's okayhe copies all nightand he pastes all day
that ctrl-c ctrl-v life
kek, done him
>>536849501Reminder: UK armed forces are a laughing stock.RAF doesnt want any stale pale and male pilots.Royal Navy has no working warships and the warships they have...have only half the weapon systems they were supposed to.The submarines are rustbuckets, none of them work.The army cant get recruits, and spends billions on garbage like AJAX which is more dangerous to the crew than it is to the enemy.
13:45'A grave moment' for UK, says senior Labour MP and defence select committee chairTan Dhesi is a Labour MP and chair of the defence select committee.He has branded today a "grave" moment for the country.Dhesi said: "John Healey has been a serious, committed and respected defence secretary, who has understood the scale of the threats facing the UK and the urgent need to strengthen our armed forces."Members across the defence committee will recognise his dedication to our service personnel and his determination to make the case for defence. We thank him for his service."That a defence secretary of his integrity and commitment has felt compelled to resign in response to the inadequacy of the proposed defence settlement is a grave moment."The government must take that warning with the utmost seriousness."The defence committee has been clear that investment in defence must be accelerated to reach 3% of GDP by the end of this parliament, and that the defence investment plan cannot be delayed further or used to disguise hard choices."It must be affordable, deliverable and fully funded, with credible timelines and proper parliamentary scrutiny."Our armed forces, defence industry, allies and adversaries alike need to see that the UK is matching its words on national security with the resources required to deliver."
>>536852424Yeah perhaps double-down on giving jeets the exception to carry religious knives after they murder someone and telling everyone else where the knife surrender bin is located isn't the best defence plan for this country after all. maybe try importing another million migrants.
>>536852424Dhesi can fuck off back to brownland.
Much better thread than that other one, full of niggers it is.
>>536849501>>536849572>"Defense secretary">Does nothing to defend our borders
>>536852702>>536852719Words cannot describe how ridiculous our situation is. Just when you think it can't get much worse, it always does. It will be like that for the rest of our lives, which might not be very long from this point forward. Get ready.
>>536852784He's a Labour MP in Starmer's government (or was) so he probably doesn't recognise it as the extremely serious problem it is. These people are insane. At least Healey had the courage to resign.
real bake>>536853301real bake>>536853301real bake>>536853301real bake>>536853301
>>536851831genuinely don't care
>>536849501it is unacceptable that starmer dawdled on this i was fine with everything else but this crossing the linehopefully we get a change in leadership
non tranny skynewsnonce thread>>536853355>>536853355
14:11No 10 launches defence of PM after Healey's resignationGovernment insiders are trying to defend their boss - Sir Keir Starmer - following the resignation of loyalist John Healey as defence secretary.They are pointing to the fact other budgets are being cut to spend on defence as showing Sir Keir Starmer is taking the matter seriously.A government source told Sky News political editor Beth Rigby: "This country is safer because of the decisions Keir Starmer has made and we will continue to act in our national interest."It is this Labour government and this Labour prime minister that is delivering the largest sustained boost to defence spending since the Cold War."We cut the international aid budget to make record investment in our armed forces, and now the PM is imposing cuts on other government departments to fund billions more."The defence investment plan will deliver the capability our armed forces need. "We will always do what is right, and needed, to keep the country safe."
What the fuck are you mongs doing with the multiple threads
>>536853535newfag
Economic rocket fuel.
>>536853535>josh retires from brit/pol/>brit/pol/ succumbs to chaoswe need him back
>>536853521>"We will always do what is right, and needed, to keep the country safe."No you won't, though.
>>536849572has he not heard of Temu for drones
>>536853366>>536853513Notice how both of these GCHQ bakes don't mention the defence secretary's resignation in the links. They're not sending their best, not that any more evidence of that were needed.
The northern irish showed how to use defence against those water cannon trucks.
>>536853816GCHQ, no. Newfag, yes. Fucking disgrace.
14:20Treasury source: 'Chancellor will always do what is needed to keep country safe'A Treasury source has just issued a comment defending the chancellor after John Healey resigned as defence secretary in part because her department was "unwilling to commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country".The source told the Press Association: "The chancellor will always do what is right and needed to keep this country safe."You can see that from her actions – a record uplift in defence spending at the spending review and then working alongside the PM to deliver billions more to fund the defence investment plan in full."
Pure lies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2ocBnraYhc
Labour have spent incredible tax raises extremely badly. Now they've got nothing left and there is no grow either. Squabbling among themselves as the country goes down the plug hole. Classic Labour government. Conservatives aren't much better. But retards keep voting for more of the same. So don't moan. Do you know whats tragic though, Labour are failing at and losing control of everything they did under Blair and Brown. Nothing changes.
Let me show you gentlemen where all those British zogbot veterans went
>>536854221Yeah I know the solution. Let's vote for the multimillionaires and billionaires who lead and fund Reform and Restore. Of course all they care about is enriching themselves at the expense of ordinary people, and blaming innocent brown people for every problem. But fuck it, who cares about consequences, let's vote for them anyway.
>>536849501so he resigned because he couldn't get enough funding to betray the british people MORE, not because of their negligent behavior towards the invading hordes of migrantsinteresting.
>>536849972This guy is a legit spanner. Hopefully the military remove Starmer and King appoints a Lord Protector.
>tfw watching Kevin the CountrymanComfy.https://www.youtube.com/@KevinTheCountryman
>>536853816RICU have taken over from GCHQ at the moment. Cheltenham is working full time on the middle east since we are out of oil by August.
>>536854583Nowt ever happens soft lad, get a grio
>be american>ram gets shot through the wallhttps://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1u2sv6c/neighbour_shot_my_pc_through_the_wall/
>>536854380Bingo. He said nothing about stopping the hordes of immigrants who we let in and give money to for free.Police the border, deport the immigrants, and suddenly there will be billions to build warships n shit.
>>536854660
>>536854298>Yeah I know the solution.You don't know the solution and you've offered no solution. You've attempted to be sarcastic and witty while shilling your left wing views but ended up looking like a complete retard. Let me tell you what isnt the solution though. Voting Labour or Conservative. You're not honestly going to try and argue with me they are after 100 years of failure are you
>da fuq Timmy gone d..aaaghhhh
>>536854660Should have bought ECC.
>>536854837What sort of shove was that ffs
>>536854213https://youtu.be/gRHbORLIATA?t=140https://youtu.be/gRHbORLIATA?t=140https://youtu.be/gRHbORLIATA?t=140(TIMESTAMPED @ 2:20)
>>536855019Looked fine to me, got the message across which was fuck off you smug nigger.
>>536854803>Shit into the ceiling.ngl I'm impressed.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e2wrre87wo
>>536854837lmao
>>536855210We are LITERALLY living in nazi germany right now.
>>536855538Cool isn't it
>>536855538how have you managed to square that circle?the national socialists actually cared about the safety and well being of their people (/germans/white people)This current political system doesn't care if white people get attacked, trafficked, raped or killed. their ideology and policies actively encourage it
>>536855538So the left were always the true nazis?
>>536855362This guy was getting european cunny for years. Only surprise is why the police didnt cover it up better (they are in on it).
>>536856067How do the police get brainwashed into this though?
>>536855624Present moment is roughly 1929 now. Or 24-29 period.Next is the economic crash, which was Wall Street in 1929. We arent there yet, but UK finances are in a dire state, with even basics like defence unfunded.After the coming economic crash, which could be by the end of this year, we will be in the 1930-32 period.>July 1932: The Nazi Party won 37% of the vote in parliamentary elections, becoming the largest party in the Reichstag.
What I don't understand is why Rupert Lowe hasn't asked Starmer (politely) if he can be PM instead? Sure, he'll probably say no, but it's worth a shot and will avoid all the voting bollocks
>>536856262Is the age of trannys almost over?
>>536856045Nazis was socialists: central planning and planned economy, extensive welfare, central planning, limited private business, price and wage controls etc
>>536856222Plenty of police are part of the rape gangs, plenty of police are taking bribes. Even for those who are not, the police dont want to be accused of racism (end of career) and if they do an arrest the HUMINT on the next beheading/bomb/etc dries up for months/years. So they just dont do anything about these kids being raped.Even the official reports say as much in more flowery language.
John Healey is a respectable man of Wakefield, just like me.
>>536856350What a sick world we live in
avin a ___ ___
>>536856350also there are muslim police officers
>>536856472jammy dodger
>>536856472virgin cry
>>536856370>man*nosferatuHe looks like he should be wafting over the battlefield collecting souls, not budgeting it
>>536856493Yup, totally at random one was run over just after he told the senior officers what had been going on.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-31164399>under investigation by a watchdog in relation to the Rotherham child abuse scandal has died following a car crash.
>>536856338It seemed to work for them as well. There's plenty of work to be done. We just need someone to mobilise the nation to do it. Unfortunately, the most likely candidate wants people to pick up dog shit and McDonald's wrappers for 50p per hour.
>>536856338the central planning is westminster pie, the planned economy is you sitting on PIP waiting for pension and eventual replacement by AI or nigger in work, limited private business is the golliwog selling vapes, american candy and offering phone repairs, price and wage controls is setting the price of milk and bread whilst increasing Wumbabo's wage monitoring the dairy aisle for 8 hours talking to Agnwingogo his uncle in the Congo.
>>536856472nazi germany
>>536856655run over by his cousin also rofl
>>536856683The counter argument is the cost was so high it put them on a permanent expansionist footing. Makes you wonder what if theyd gone capitalist and exported all them wonderwaffen instead
>>536856655Is that the same one sammy woodhouse was on about where she named a rapey copoer and he got run over?
15:00'If Healey believes the financial settlement is not enough, then we are in trouble'We've just had some reaction to John Healey's resignation from the world's oldest defence and security thinktank, the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).RUSI's Professor Kevin Rowlands, former head of the Royal Navy Strategic Studies Centre, added: "If the delay to the defence investment plan was already undermining the government’s credibility on defence, John Healey's resignation has blown a hole in its side."The immediate consequence is not just political embarrassment for No 10, but a significant loss of planning certainty at a time when the British Armed Forces, the MoD, and industry really need clarity on what will be funded, and when."Rowlands added: "Healey knows the threats we face, he knows the capabilities and shortfalls the armed forces have, and if he believes that the financial settlement is not enough to keep the country safe – to the extent that he cannot honourably stay in post – then we are in trouble."Senior associate fellow and a former army infantry officer, Ed Arnold, described Healey's departure as "a seismic moment for the government and MoD [Minstry of Defence]""For the government, it creates a sequence of political headaches in terms of a replacement, and trying to get the defence investment plan published," he said"The resignation will ensure that this government – and subsequent ones – will find it harder to be complacent on defence spending and will give it the increased public attention it rightly deserves, far more so than any speech can, no matter how well it is delivered"However, Arnold warned that the global implications of Healey's resignation are "severe", because we are just weeks away from the annual NATO summitMore broadly, Arnold said the MoD as a whole needs a "fundamental cultural transformation to become more effective in a darkening world", and Healey's resignation will "hopefully be a catalyst" for that
>>536851246>>536851763
>>536859094As AA has mentioned, just ignore anything Trump says.
>>536853941>a record uplift in defence spendingThis is obviously a fucking lie, though
>>536860754Of course it is. Akin to us being told about record levels of growth like 0.3%.
>>536855538No,We're at the weimar stage
>>536854828He's right though. Restore and Reform are both Capitalist parties who have pledged to put "bussinessmen" into positions of power. It's businessmen who want more immigration not less. You say voting Labour doesn't make any difference but it does, immigration has fallen under the Labour Government.
DIN DINS?
>>536862608>You say voting Labour doesn't make any difference but it does, immigration has fallen under the Labour Government.Just like defence spending has "massively increased," right? It hasn't.
>>536860754It is, yes.
17:30'The PM is not in control', says Reform's Tice - as he defends his own partyWe've just had some more reaction from Reform UK's deputy leader, Richard Tice, to the news of John Healey's resignation as defence secretary.He told our political correspondent Ali Fortescue: "This is devastating for the country, for all of us, because the former defence secretary John Healey has now said that the prime minister is unable - in other words, he's not in control - and Rachel Reeves is unwilling to keep the country safe."Just think about that - a chancellor unwilling to pay to keep us safe, and a prime minister who is now a puppet of his backbenchers, benefits street."It's disastrous, and frankly, I don't see how Starmer survives this."Ali put to him that Reform UK doesn't even have a defence spokesperson, and so asked just how serious they are about it.Tice replied: "We're the only party that, at the last election, said we should get to [spending of] 3% of GDP [on defence] within six years, and we showed how to pay for it."So we've always been at the forefront of this. Others have copied us, but they've said actually, we're not prepared to fund it."
17:15Iran threatens US with 'endless quagmire'Iran's top negotiator has told the US it will be stuck in an "endless quagmire" if it continues its attacks on Iran."Wrong strategies and impulsive decisions will reset the entire board for the worse, explode energy infrastructure and markets and create an endless quagmire that you will be stuck in for years," said Iran's parliamentary speaker, Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf."You will see a different Iran," he added.Donald Trump has been keen to distance his war in Iran from other, drawn-out US conflicts, given his repeated campaign promise to refrain from dragging America into any new wars.
17:45Analysis: Ceasefire 'farcical' as Trump suggests boots on the groundThe ceasefire between the US and Iran is looking "increasingly farcical," says US correspondent Mark Stone.Donald Trump "certainly seems to be suggesting" troops on the ground in Kharg Island, he says.The president earlier threatened to take control of the key oil-exporting area.Watch Stone's full analysis...
>>536854380Or he recognized if a civil war kicked off in bongistan the UK military would be crushed by rowdy soccerfans without a major revamp to make up for all the decades of grift which hollowed out the UK. Since he didn't get it, despite the collapse accelerating, and the current leadership are idiots, he quits and makes a stink about it while putting as much distance between himself and the regime as possible.He can now run for the hills and quietly disappear in the middle of shit happening rather than being stuck in the epicenter of defending the incompetents and a primary face being looked for at any captured port when the time to flee kicks off.Just look to sri lanka for how quick a corrupt 3rd world shithole can go from everything is fine to holy fuck you are running thru the streets from a mob.
Bet this traitorous cunt is A-OK with the paki pedo gangs though.https://x.com/gingerrtom/status/2064957269272351169
>>536850508might actually open that parmesan cheese and use some with my dindins tonight, might not
>>536856631Isnt that the same thing tho?
>>536865705parmesan is delectably bussin
>>536865799>>536865799>>536865799non nonce new
Fire status laddies?
>NEW: An Imam's home was "fire-bombed" in the early hours of this morning in Bolton, England
Multi-thread
>>536865820The links don't even mention the defence secretary's resignation. That is a GCHQ nonce thread full of botspam and actual paedophiles like you.
