Starmer hands arms dealers billions meant for roads and energy

Shameless lapdog of elite interests Keir Starmer has once again announced that his government will be handing arms dealers billions of pounds. This time, it’ll be taking money away from road and energy projects to pay for it.

Starmer is leaving, but still screwing us over

Starmer’s corporate cronies have long said a lack of funds is why they can’t fund public services properly. But because Big Brother in the US wants the UK to splurge billions more on arms, our subservient political class has obliged. And Starmer even had the nerve to brag about keeping public finances “under control” as he did it.

No ordinary person in the UK wanted the West to fuel war with Russia in Ukraine. No one wanted the UK to help Israel to commit genocide in Gaza. And no one wanted the UK to aid Israel and the US to start bombing Iran. These wars have destroyed ordinary people’s lives in Ukraine, Gaza, and Iran, and they’ve affected ordinary people elsewhere too.

But Starmer doesn’t care about any of that – and nor do his war criminal allies in the US and Israel. That’s how he managed to keep a straight face when announcing an extra £15bn of ‘defence’ funding.

And this, he said, is all at the expense of road and energy projects. You know – the roads and energy most people need and use every day. The government is scrapping necessary upkeep of infrastructure to line the pockets of the people who make bombs and drones. You know – the ones that most of us will never see, but destroy countless lives abroad.

As a colleague neatly put it, Starmer’s basically asking us to say:

Thank god we’ve got lethal drones to protect our potholes!

Stand up to the authoritarian bullies!

To justify his shameful handout to dealers of death and destruction, Starmer unironically insisted that:

bullies and dictators cannot be allowed to push people around.

But that’s exactly what he’s doing. Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu (and the billionaires backing them) want war and the dominance it brings. So Starmer’s pushing us to waste public money on it too, all amid his unprecedented crackdown on our rights to protest against the war crimes he’s been supporting.

It won’t improve our lives. It will only take money away from projects that would.

That’s Starmer’s legacy, though: one of screwing over ordinary people while feebly following the orders of a dystopian billionaire class. And putting a different suit in charge of the same project will not make our lives better. The only thing that will is uniting to resist – and defeat – that billionaire class.

Featured image via the Canary

By Ed Sykes