Foreign Aid Cut To Fund Increase To Defence Spending
I have been waiting for an outraged bleeding heart to post about this and I am shocked nobody has, so I am kindly doing it instead. Starmer slashes aid to fund major increase in defence spending:Keir Starmer has announced that Britain will “fight for peace in Europe” with a generational increase in defence spending paid for by slashing the foreign aid budget.The move, just two days before the prime minister is due to meet Donald Trump, raised immediate concerns that he was pandering to the US president, and fury from aid groups that say it could cost lives in countries that rely on UK support.In a surprise announcement, Starmer announced the biggest increase in defence spending since the end of the cold war, with the budget rising to 2.5% of GDP by 2027 – three years earlier than planned – and an ambition to reach 3%.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/feb/25/starmer-slashes-aid-to-fund-major-increase-in-defence-spendingThe fact that Starmer announced it 2 days before his face to face meeting with Trump, was this purely coincidental, or a panic move to take something positive to the table in order to ingratiate himself? I would say the latter. However I am glad that the foreign aid budget is being cut at long last. Over the decades it has become hugely bloated and open to corruption and no longer fit for purpose. Farage and Reform have always advocated for it to be cut, so at least Starmer has listened. I doubt that #NoCharmerStarmer will sleep much tonight and I would love to be a fly on the Oval Office wall tomorrow!🥹
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