Election Year or Fear!

[ramAnag]

The ‘Russian’ thing relates to my priorities (and your lack of). Using a Derby County analogy, you wouldn’t have your wish list for incoming transfers for the new season if there was no Derby County would you? So survival of the club always took priority. Likewise, I value the place we live (the British Isles) as highest priority, from which and into which all other things flow. I therefore value defence of the the realm above the other considerations. That falls into pure defence (from let’s say Russia) defence from attack on our way of life (let’s say radical Islam) and defence from more insidious ‘actors’ (let’s say China). Just a personal view, but I’m not surprised you excluded it

Andy…I didn’t exclude anything and of course I recognise the need for defence spending. I was identifying the things that explicitly need attention and putting right after the last 14 years of neglect. Maybe defence is another…I wouldn’t know but it may well be.