Is that his way of announcing without announcing it that replacing trident has gone up ~7% from £205bn to £220bn?
NATO is launching big attack on public services to push up spending on war and nuclear weapons.
We need spending on health and education, not the military. #NursesNotNukes
https://www.politico.eu/article/welfare-finance-nato-boss-european-parliament-mark-rutte-secretary-general-gdp-defense/
Budgets are about priorities and the British government is clear that its priority is not fixing public services or addressing falling living standards. #Budget24
Our priority: #NursesNotNukes
A week ago, the PM was announcing a below-inflation pay rise for public sector workers, insisting it was their best and final offer. Now, the Def Sec is finding billions of pounds of new money for nuclear weapons seemingly without any pushback.
They say there’s no magic money tree to fix the NHS, our schools, or the planet, but there always seem to be billions more pounds for weapons of mass destruction that can destroy us all. #WagesNotWeapons #NursesNotNukes
https://cnduk.org/cnd-condemns-additional-billions-for-britains-nuclear-arsenal/
The UK government spends over £48 billion a year on the military & £205bn on new nuclear weapons.
CND's #NursesNotNukes campaign highlights how the cost of nuclear weapons could instead be invested in the #NHS. #NursesDay
http://cnduk.org/nurses-not-nukes/
Scrap the Trident nuclear weapons system and invest in our NHS instead! The UK government is increasing the number of warheads in its Trident nuclear weapons arsenal for the first time since the Cold War. At the same time, it says it doesn’t have enough money to properly pay our nurses, who have looked after … Continued
We’re asking our supporters to tell Jeremy Hunt what they’d rather see the £billions earmarked for nuclear weapons spent on instead. #NursesNotNukes #WagesNotWeapons
⬇️ Have your say below ⬇️
https://bit.ly/41khr1b
A webinar from 2021 but just as relevant today.
The UK gov is spending billions of pounds on expanding its nuclear arsenal and on new nuclear weapons. But it says it doesn't have the money to pay healthcare workers properly. We need #NursesNotNukes!
The UK government has announced it will increase the number of nuclear warheads in its arsenal for the first time since the Cold War. And yet it continues to insist it doesn’t have enough money to pay nurses properly. If you missed it, you can now watch back a CND public meeting discussing the government’s … Continued
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