Enrique Colòn frankie ✪ Let Freedom Ring Dan The Halfway Post Sorry, what? 😅 Estonia gave ~2% of their GDP to Ukraine, as did Denmark and Lithuania. The US gave 0.5%, less than 11 EU countries. And if we're talking absolute $$, the EU has also given more total financial aid to Ukraine than the US. Stop spreading Trump propaganda.
Nigel Farage MP 0.2% of GDP isn’t £13M it’s closer to £6M ? Why doesn’t he inject the Chagos Islands money to really boost the budget and move much faster.
Who would have thought a British PM would try to spin an increase of 0.2% of GDP on defence spending as game changing! At a time when the UK is at its weakest it has been since the Crimean war! Keir Starmer must really hate us! For anyone confused this means our Prime minister
James Cleverly🇬🇧 Here is the accurate figure: 0.2% of GNI (not GDP) would be a saving of £5.3 billion (going by 2022 statistics) Important article on countries we should not send ODA to 👇🏻
Piers Morgan Keir Starmer Even if you believe that it’s performative nonsense from the PM. If threat increased may I suggest that increased defence spending start now not 2027 and by rather more than 0.2% of GDP. By 2027 2.5 will be less in real terms than 2.3 now as the economy is about to collapse
Keir Starmer So not £13billion which you said in the Commons 🙄 The 0.2% reduction in foreign aid and 0.2% rise in defence spending, is about £7billion extra a year compared to what would have otherwise been spent had the defence budget remained at its 2.3% of GDP level.
The Polecat Lewis Goodall Interesting comment. UK Aid to Ukraine is running at about £5bn a year, including £3bn in military aid. 0.2% of GDP is little over £5bn
Boris Johnson 0.1% gdp aid West gives Ukraine is 2% of Russia's gdp. It spends 5 x more on its war. The West, including your government, never gave Ukraine enough to win, so sit down and be quite.
Peter Stefanovic We could rejoin the customs union and single market increasing trade and raising an estimated £40bn in taxes annually which would enable defence spending to rise by 0.5 or 0.6 % of GDP. Alternatively maybe 0.4% and add 0.1% or 0.2% to foreign aid. Which is the harder choice ?
Rt. Hon Ben Wallace Starmer seems out of touch with the costs of military hardware and munitions, this extra 0.2% will just get swallowed by R&D & Sector inflation outpacing GDP. A typical career politician, useless !
Piers Morgan Keir Starmer 0.2% is significant ! I have a bridge to sell you. By 2027 our gdp will have tanked with this lot so that means a real terms cut. Economics is not your strong point. Most of it will be eaten up by more civil servants in the mod anyway. 🤡🌏
