PM promises UK defence spending up to 2.5% of GDP by 2030

Rishi Sunak has pledged to increase defence spending to 2.5 percent of GDP by 2030.
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On a trip to Poland, the prime minister said the extra billions will put Britain's defence industry "on a war footing" - and Nato members cannot expect the US alone to foot the bill for defending the West.
He also announced an extra half a billion pounds of military aid for Ukraine - as well as boats, vehicles, missiles and ammunition.
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[@dancarter7840]

Cuts disability benefit then gives 500mill to a foreign war. What a pleb

[@_____alyptic]

His fans will eat it right up

[@dancarter7840]

@@_____alyptic sooner there's a general election and we can get them out the better

[@michaeldent5359]

75 billion

[@jason-the-great]

it means nothing, he's 'pledging' money that he won't have to give, he will be out of office soon and when Starmer gets in he will just undo it- so it really isn't anything to stress about.

[@keithmarshall8796]

​@@jason-the-greatStarmer will just keep on giving.

[@geeksworkshop]

I bet you money he isn't even living in the country by 2030.

[@Joey-ct8bm]

His wife doesn't pay tax.

[@AMen-yw9cr]

Which country? India, UK or US? Coz he's all over the place.

[@geeksworkshop]

@@Joey-ct8bm She does, just not in the England, the country her husband is running. The do it because they can get away with it.

[@stephenchappell7512]

Let's hope instead justice catches up with him

[@zainzoala1083]

Just like Liz Truss he will have many benefits and will be looked after as former PM . So he will always be alright

[@user-kw4zy9jh8h]

What a waste of money. Spend it on your people. Ukraine is fucked.

[@liamh2467]

What's it got to do with Ukraine?

[@MrC.1990]

@@liamh2467fuck Ukraine

[@cccp880]

Privet tovarishch

[@ETRTriad]

​@@liamh2467500 million to ukraine. So a fair bit.

[@chrisgodley5503]

@liamh2467 military spending goes up because of Ukraine it’s where we’ve been sending all the equipment we make to fight the war just like American congress gave another 60 billion but most of that goes to the military industrial complex to make weapons to send to Ukraine it’s all part of the forever wars to funnel public money into private hands

[@elifitness1923]

How you pledge £500 million to other countries but can’t even sort out the cost of living of your own people back in the UK 🤦🏽‍♂️

[@dsuse3949]

i just dont understand why the british people keep begging for handouts. do you people have no shame ?? no pride ??? lol its embarrasing lol

[@tonyb9735]

You have to understand that this is a political choice. Not helping those who are struggling in this country is government policy, and has been for the past 14 years. Look at the money they wasted on PPE - tens of billions funnelled out their their chums. Look at the money they are wasting on sending refugees to Rwanda. £500 million is nothing.

[@fenderek666]

14 years not enough to know Tory priorities?

[@markysgeeklab8783]

His own people are fine, they can just call up their Eton schoolmates if they need anything sorted.

[@dafyddroff8084]

He won’t be the PM in 2025 let alone 2030

[@michaeldent5359]

It still stands !!, they are all bought off !!

[@nofiltersenzafiltro9596]

He never planned you should thank BoJo the conservatives and Liz truss and obywankenoby

[@user-ry6uf5dp1l]

He spent his banking account or pumping uk 🇬🇧 citizens bodies part 😂payment Remember Justin Timberlake and Dakota Fanning (I think) movies 🍿 💭 that zones-out-of-times (we got that Oxford & pfize jabs ofmirco nano 🌽🚦💣chip )😂❤

[@turningaround7842]

@@michaeldent5359 facts, all criminals

[@rebelliousfighter7075]

Unelected!!!

[@BobbyDazzler888]

Crazy. Spending other peoples tax on another country first.

[@zainzoala1083]

😂😂😂 Do you mean those billionaires behind the curtains that put him there .

[@thebaneofyourexistence.3377]

You don’t elect a prime minister

[@nofiltersenzafiltro9596]

You vote for the party not the prime minister in UK we are not in America

[@jhonson7079]

We've got no money for the National Health we are cutting disabled people's benefits can't pay the teachers schools are collapsing but we've got 500 million to fight a war where will you get the money from squeeze the taxpayer even more god bless the Tories

[@bigjohn697791]

None of that will matter if we are at war It's a zero sum game. Better to have it not need it than need it and not have it.

[@yousnotright]

Don't ever think Labour will be better.

[@dianeglanville]

under Labour has got to be better under tories

[@petermorris3665]

And all caused by Labour's expensive illegal war, Labour spending all the money and bragging that there was none left, Labour mortgaging our future with expensive PFI programmes, Labour bloating the civil service with 750,000 made-up civil service jobs (To boost union membership), Labour putting over a million extra people on benefits, Labour opening the doors to uncontrolled low-wealth / low-skilled visitors and a 1 in 100 year pandemic - hardly the Tories fault!

[@deanjames2476]

I thought benefits went up 10% this month more than nurses got as a payrise

[@Bella_Kilori]

Give about 500 million but can’t help your own country’s people afford a house of there own

[@Laughs_Loudest]

England is looking like Bombay 😂

[@robspencer-kelly1636]

Give about 500 million but can’t help your own country’s people afford a house of there own.

[@user-ry6uf5dp1l]

Were homeless 🚐 🎠🎡🏕️backpacking

[@countryside_guy]

£500m for a war that isn't our but leave the elderly to starve and freeze, the homeless to starve and freeze, the NHS is struggling, people can't get a dentist, roads riddled with potholes, veterans left to rot on the streets, etc etc etc. It is beyond time we looked after our own people for a change!

[@shreddedguy679]

Speaking oh which I'm a dentist, and because of the lack of money In people's pocket, they come to me with a damaged tooth, il tell them a simple treatment they need and they will tell me rather extract the tooth because they can't afford the treatment that would save it and keep it in their mouth, its ridiculous

[@Buttmunch284]

So glad the countries that helped the U.K. in WW2 didn’t have your attitude.

[@chappy2121]

​@@Buttmunch284different war different circumstances..... Is there a difference between the US/UK war in Iraq and the Russia/Ukraine one? We're the good guys though right...

[@shreddedguy679]

@@Buttmunch284 there is a difference now we are the evil

[@doghat1619]

@@shreddedguy679 and those people are the lucky ones who can actually GET a dentist. good luck if you ever move city, you'll be stuck on a waiting list for years for an NHS dentist.

[@darrents44]

Cuts disability benefit, then gives 500mill to a foreign war. What a ****

[@michaeldent5359]

75 billion watch the press conference from Poland 🇵🇱, he is taking us to war on 3 fronts, labor is part of this, look at GAZA !!

[@scalarnai]

Just say it out loud, what a wan ker.

[@chrisharding9531]

Why not 500 million here, how are we in a cost of living crisis when Sunak can find free money lying around to give to another country before our own !

[@AMen-yw9cr]

Because we are 3rd world officially

[@stevesamson3940]

money printer go brrrrrrrrrrrr

[@davebox588]

Isn't 500 mil the amount Mone/Barrowman swindled from the UK people for dodgy PPE? Perhaps they think by 2030 we'll have forgotten about it.

[@keithmarshall8796]

You think starmer would refuse zelensky?

[@bauerjack1978]

​@@Realifeja they rather give it to mates with there private contacts

[@mathewgrover6455]

How is he going to keep the Russians out when he can't keep rubber dinghies out.

[@cccp880]

😂

[@clivewalker5465]

Invaders coming ashore in their Thousands , and Richey sunak tells us the Russians are the enemy .....

[@dominicreade9342]

Fantastic point and so true , Russia are a massive threat because they see how vulnerable we are 👌

[@Will-nq9yt]

Why promise to 2030? He won't be the prime minister for much longer 🤣

[@jhonson7079]

But this country will still be in debt

[@markdownton3185]

2030 is the landmark year for the UN, a nefarious organisation which is effectively running global politics. Kier Starmer will ensure a continuation of the same.

[@davidhall7648]

They are passing all sorts of laws before they go, they will be causing damage for years to come like Thatcher did

[@cherylujvary2563]

I dare notdpeak because of backlash

[@jhonson7079]

We will be paying back to the banks he works for 4 years to come god bless the Tories

[@Paulo-ov4yo]

Meanwhile, UK debt gets bigger, people can't afford the basics, and people living on the streets, including ex servicemen and the NHS & local services are underfunded

[@johnrussell3961]

Tory economics and Brexit creates debt.

[@nicholasc.5944]

Why u making promises dude your whole party is gone in the summer

[@richiefingers1]

November

[@dannyuk1523]

For an even worse bunch. We need to be looking at other solutions. (btw YouBoot is censoring comments before you can post them now - "We weren't able to add your reply. Please try again (smilie face)". So we'll also need proper tech that's not run by the same "people".

[@jhonson7079]

The Tories might be out soon but the debt will leave us we will be paying for years

[@nofiltersenzafiltro9596]

Labour it’s even more crazy with spending

[@markysgeeklab8783]

​@nofiltersenzafiltro9596 Labour spend more, but they spend it on hospitals and trains instead of whatever their mates are selling (mostly)

[@Foxhound304]

Stop giving my Tax money away :( spend it on our country for once

[@zainzoala1083]

Meanwhile Rishi “ We will ban your doctors sick notes . Sick people must go to work. We have simply no more money for sick people . 😂😂😂

[@umarrk3082]

He has recently sent £1.5 billion to Ukraine 🇺🇦, in addition to previous amounts. It is unacceptable to send money to a country that has no guarantee of survival or victory, especially while you are cutting benefits for disabled people. The Conservatives need to go; we have suffered enough for 14 years 😡.

[@HitchcockTheSnail]

Stasi Starmer would do the same, have no mistake

[@olivergroves2007]

Defence against what exactly? Uk and USA should not be interfering with other countries in the first place. Look after your own country & people first. Also change the name of ministry of defence to ministry of offence

[@carollane8694]

It was US/Biden interference trying to open a lab in Ukraine that kicked it off.

[@SamJ596]

Just as well the Americans didn’t share your same view back in the late 30s

[@BarryMiller-gb5fs]

No one will want to defend a county that basicly doesint help the British people so why fight for it when it will not fight for its people

[@carollane8694]

Plenty of young, fighting age men being housed in barracks and hotels tho. How terribly convenient

[@yasserali6334]

He's making the British people go hungry to feed Ukraine what a joker

[@michaelshaw9029]

And the whole thing could have been avoided. Fecking criminals the lot of them. No doubt he'll have money invested

[@markhayward7400]

Increased defence spending means decreased spending on things that actually matter to voters : health, housing, welfare, education

[@SamJ596]

Defence spending absolutely matters to every single voter. Health, housing education and welfare would suffer unimaginably if we ended up at war unprepared.

[@doghat1619]

@@SamJ596 Russia can't defeat Ukraine, despite having 15x the population. How would it ever threaten a war against the UK? People should have good healthcare, good education, good job prospects. People deserve a LIFE. Not to funnel billions towards military contractors, for a war that won't ever happen.

[@kingonr7644]

Take it from disabled people can't work and give it to another country to take life's... I think sunak should use his own money

[@ElusiveGhost1011]

Didn’t fancy using the £500m on our own country no? Typical

[@enoz.j3506]

Sunak is a first class Funt, i would, like many love to have a go!!!!!! Take the smirk right off his face.

[@derekrobinson5554]

He has no money to give to our doctors, where has he found all this money from.

[@paddyanglais91]

Money printer go brrrrrr 💵💵💵

[@MaestroPlaymaker]

Wow, just WOW. We have a cost of living crisis and spends our money

[@danielkidd1012]

Got money for war but can’t feed the poor.

[@malcolmmitchell6529]

Always

[@rez1812]

I want my taxes back, I never voted for him, never mind his useless spending

[@sharkyedits809]

50% of a billion that could had gone: to the crumbling schools and poor deprived area here at home Another waste of taxpayers money 💥💥💥

[@titteryenot4524]

Prime Minister: “Can we do boots on the ground?” Defence Secretary: “Of course. We just can’t do the soldiers to fill them!” 🥾 🥾

[@AMen-yw9cr]

We need more Gurkhas from Nepal, people here are too soft

[@Piggybank80828]

@@AMen-yw9cr Google how Britain has treated the Gurkhas, they deserve better.

[@carollane8694]

It's all being outsourced to international mercenaries

[@frasegfunk9790]

Another transfer of wealth!? 🤔

[@paddyanglais91]

The military industrial complex would suggest so.

[@lindahobster7480]

But he couldn’t afford compensation for waspi women, infected blood victims or post masters affected by the post office scandal!

[@helpeachotherall]

why ? he is cutting lot of benefits to the poor people,How sad. will not vote for this party forever.

[@Brukky1_]

HOW IS HE ALLOWED TO JUST DO THAT?!

[@mayfieldnorris4280]

He was advised to do that.

[@samirbouloudene8587]

Raise taxes and send them to Ukraine instead of investing in the country

[@janeknight3597]

All mouth and no trousers

[@scalarnai]

A busted flush.

[@godschild3640]

Money laundering, trillions from Minnesota people and God saw exactly what you did to our nations

[@lokensicarius9347]

Minnesota?!

[@hdexplicit5721]

God aint real

[@discipleaj]

Yep. The money laundering through this war is atrocious.

[@discipleaj]

​@hdexplicit5721 You'd have to know everything about everything to say God doesn't exist. So pipe down.

[@hdexplicit5721]

@@discipleaj No all you have to do is look at reality and understand god is character created by humans to explain things we don’t understand.

[@A.a.ACE..786]

Yeah let's give 500 millions to other countries for war and lets take it off the disabled and poor in our country easy being in charge and filthy rich.its obvious he's doing as much as he can to benefit himself for when he leaves.like most people in government so .nothing different their 😢😢

[@davidb6681]

Embarrassingly out of touch!

[@user-un9wj6jg1x]

'The PM promises'.....empty words, empty coffers. What a MESS the next government will INHERIT !!!

[@KyojuroRengoku98]

Almost everything in UK is behind compared to other European countries, housing, airports, healthcare, roads, Law Enforcement, right down to the water pressure in the house. Germany's law enforcement took down a coup, Belgium's healthcare ranks 3rd in the world, France has arguably the best water supply in the world, Italy has on average some of the longest living people in the world with a blue zone in their country. Norway's prison system is great too, meanwhile England still hires surgeons and GP's from Europe even though they left the EU. Their own government doesn't play by its own rules, Boris Johnson and Matt Hancock during the pandemic are prime examples. Their healthcare service is collapsing, their teachers and ambulance workers are striking too. How far has the "5th richest country on Earth" fallen.

[@AMen-yw9cr]

6th now, India is at 5th

[@MrC.1990]

@@AMen-yw9crbehind a bunch of brown people.

[@iancampbell3202]

Stop pissing our money up the wall

[@mayfieldnorris4280]

Weird comment.

[@AbdulshuhelKadir]

People in England crying about immigration and ramadhan lights while the government is giving away interest free money to Ukraine

[@Bungle-UK]

More money for Zelensky to pop in his Swiss bank account while we in the UK face record high taxes to pay for it. Beyond a joke.

[@dsuse3949]

this has been debunked as fake BRICS propaganda many times lol

[@andipeters743]

Would've been nice to have asked the working public their opinion first.

[@carlosgasparini7922]

Leaving il jobless people left to starvation but spending fortunes to sponsor wars that are not even Britains

[@impy2d843]

Well this is gonna back fire later, when tax payers are gonna burn down his house.

[@Skaramoosh5]

I don't want to fight Russia.

[@fenderek666]

But Russia wants to fight you, Camrade

[@Skaramoosh5]

@@fenderek666 hasn't yet, soooo

[@andrewowens9382]

It's a shame he couldn't spend the money on the British people 😕 like roads and n,h,s,etc

[@alpha6944]

£500m 😢Give me £100,000 and i promise my business idea will feed 65/80% of the people within 3-5 years 🥺.

[@Mattsavage69]

So the UK has plenty of money! Wow, I thought the msm said we hadn’t. This is nothing to do with Trump, he is hilarious, saying everyone had to pay.

[@user-vo6gr1us9w]

I wish we had Putin

[@jaykay5688]

So all people’s hard earned money goes to war now??????? 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[@kogaiononN]

Yes , british taxpayer money will go to a war , which is not our war !

[@magnacarta7956]

Stop giving our money away.

[@bewlaybrother4460]

Stop the boats

[@user-by3cg8jj6q]

Spend our money on our own Country.

[@canemore1]

Funny how hs can find billions for weapons but cant find tge money for teachers, nurses and doctors. Let alone a dentist

[@Marenqo]

Pleasure Sunak, i love paying taxes

[@kenwetherell9025]

Our government spending money on our armed forces are you joking we all know this government has been doing cuts and cuts on the armed forces😂😂

[@MrdjMob]

How he can promise that if he ll be booted out within months

[@Marvster98]

Let’s see them give us 500 million when we got to pay our debt back

[@50_Pence]

You are already paying it back by inflation

[@marlboroqueen]

it has to be a joke, right...............?

[@BobbyDazzler888]

Theyd like you to see the joking side of 1/2 a billion of tax payers money

[@johnbannister1173]

Showing his true colours and EU fan

[@jacquesmolders30]

A promise is not a scheduled cost. The situation at that time will prevail. Do not trust politicians promising !

[@letsdisagree]

Yeah save Ukraine. Fcuk everything else. Way to go. Smell your freedom democracy society and justice.

[@user-kf8wg6lb1p]

We need to now because you are dragging us into Wars we can’t afford. Rishi stop going to the bar and buying all the drinks on a credit card that’s maxed out .

[@marceloperini-quimicaefoto8987]

everyone wants to launder money in Ukraine, I mean, lend money to Ukraine!

[@emilyblade9676]

UK is playing soldiers when other countries are growing their economy.

[@johnrussell3961]

The EU is growing theirs by taking huge chunks out of ours!

[@alanharbud392]

...and after he admonished the British public.

[@Lochayetheview]

All these leaders that are not voted for, it is handed to them. It is the same in Scotland.

[@eddmason7686]

2.5% WoW that means we might get up to 10 soldiers

[@bonglandgreg]

According to the recruitment ads they won't be English or men, so 10 is really being quite presumptuous at this point.

[@seansean7653]

Another 500 millions, no worries my 40% tax will pay it.

[@peterdauda3351]

Suddenly they have found the money tree?

[@MaxinePayne-vb9bf]

US has just given Ukraine another 64 billion dollars, why do the UK need to give anymore. Plus the union flag should not be anywhere near him he doesn’t deserve it.

[@foxmiah276]

Rishi is rich why doesn't he send the money from his bank why from taxpayers and disability benefits

[@user-kv5fv2nv7o]

Defence spending should be 5% right now.

[@user-zg1wr8bu1y]

You would have to raise tax’s a lot to fund it

[@dawahgym9623]

I love you so much sunak my darling thanks , no one is more generous than you.

[@RomanAugustus]

Don't be surprised if you get potato guns!

[@bonglandgreg]

Well, we certainly haven't got a potato famine in parliament, the potatoes are thriving in there.

[@jacquelinecolwell1529]

Instead of paying Ukraine he should spend it on our Armed Forces.

[@johnrussell3961]

The Tories trashed New Labours army which came out of Iraq.

[@andygman639]

Well he and the members of Parliament ain't paying for it

[@petermee6049]

He could promise a moon landing by hippo's in ballet shoes singing "Happy Birthday to Ya" Nothing he says matters......they'll be gone before anything promised has to be fulfilled He knows it, I know it......we all know it

[@ChibiViolin]

500M is peanuts in a war. To put it into perspective the US spent 100M to send 25 blokes on a mission to rescue a school teacher from 9 pirates.

[@callum6552]

Is any of this money even real , or is it just to control people.

[@tomcantwell6791]

Mess why we investing in ukraine we done enough and now we screwing us over british public torries finish our country fully

[@AB-zl4nh]

Offer to wipe student debt if you join the Armed Forces for 3 years & watch recruitment skyrocket.

[@user-zg1wr8bu1y]

Yea but you would have to cut the armed forces in half to pay for it or raise tax’s to fund it

[@jonathangibson3786]

I do not consent!

[@kandykush4204]

Another £500M of our taxes off for a wash! Great stuff 👏

[@shamanahaboolist]

Thats what austerity was for is it? 🤬

[@leighbrownsmith1446]

We’ve e it got the money to support this!! The country is on its knees!! He’s got to go!

[@bauerjack1978]

Shame he can't give 500 million to fix the road surfaces in the uk

[@Gdawgydowg]

We need real change. And labour isn’t that! Please give us something different to vote for🤬🤬🤬

[@user-yc4xf8cv5y]

The political system in UK is rotten 😂😂😂

[@pattracey105]

As ordered to do so by the USA. Nothing to do with defence of U.K.

[@markdownton3185]

Meanwhile the Russian economy continues to grow while we all grub about in the remnants of a once great country.

[@bostonweddingcars]

Money laundering 101

[@bigCyril]

That’s a vote getter, I don’t think.

[@richardtruthconquersall9226]

What uk giving money to eussr . Because uk has not had a leader since thatcher

[@johnhayes1635]

The women who destroyed our housing stock

[@S0_Rhyn]

I would be in prison if stole someone's else money and gave it to Mafia, but I guess that didn't apply to him. Hey mr unelected, this is NOT your money!!! Sickening 🤮

[@TarlachOakleaf]

A curious coincidence that Sunak does this just a couple of days after the US Congress voted $60 billion in Ukraine aid.