If we are a net importer, from the dollar transaction world (and we are), it's a good thing.
It would be better if we are a net exporter, but we are not, and it's hard to see how we can be any time soon. Our best chance was with the financial services sector, but the Tories, at the behest of the Russians, defenestrated it.
For most people it probably is yes, but by definition therefore so is everything else being discussed on this here internet.
Agreed.
Chancellor of the Exchequor doesn't appear to share your sunny view of the current government, as she has just cried her way through PMQs.
I didn't hear it, so I'm going to need to have access to more facts, to go with the feelz, to be able to analyse.
I would just say that nobody is implying that "making tangible progress" is incompatible with "still deep in the shit".
She’ll have to go before the autumn budget won’t she, whether Starmer wants her to or not? That seems to me to be the only way they can increase borrowing by junking her fiscal rules.
Let's not waste money on new ways to transport and launch nuclear weapons, that'll save a few quid.
In a World of seriously bad actors where we are isolated both from Europe and the USA, Im going to say that would be a really bad idea. And I know what happens if shot hits the fan. But the World is full of cunty madness and big stick plays.
Got to say I struggle with the point of nuclear weapons. If we're at the point of needing them, the whole world is fucked
Think about the sort of people who own and run the "defence industry" (doesn't matter which side), how their interests are broadly aligned with each other (doesn't matter which side), and who gets to sign the cheques that they insist need to be written (us).
We live in a world dominated by money. The answer is almost always to follow the money.
The point is: look at the way the countries who have them act towards the countries that don’t, vs how they act towards each other.
I’m not a fan of them existing, naturally, but they do exist, they are relevant, and so having the capability in a couple of European nations (even Brexshitted ones) is probably better than not. Especially as the US is going full mental.
I can see why Iran wants them.. and the lengths that the US is going to prevent that also speaks volumes. I guess it’s an open question whether an Islamic/Middle Eastern power having nukes would temper the western shenanigans in the Middle East or be the starting whistle to the end of the world.
That's the point. It's a shit point but a clear one. I thought the World was on a trajectory to disarming after the wall came down. Turns out, I didn't take dictators into account.
One of the common observations was that Ukraine wouldn't have been invaded if they hadn't given up their (Russian) nukes, on the promise of mutual defence.
Makes me glad we don't have much mineral wealth. Except maybe antimony.
It's not like we can nuke Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg or the Vanguard Group et al though.
