Grant Shapps slammed for UK defence | Susie Boniface
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- čas přidán 26. 04. 2024
- “Grant Shapps will say anything to anybody. Everything he said is just about where the public isn’t.”
It’s “astonishing” that Grant Shapps thinks “everything’s fine” when it comes to defence, says The Daily Mirror's Susie Boniface.
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This man was absolutely useless when he was the Housing Minister. How he could be trusted to become Defence Secretary is beyond belief and in my opinion dangerous for the country.
Yes, it's unbelievable.
He's an absolute tool
I'm constanty surprised that Mr Fake Names Shapps ever gets any responsibility. But these days, I can no longer say "I can't think of anyone less suited for it" given the abilities of the current party in power wouldn't fill a teaspoon.
He reminds me of Chris 'Failing' Grayling. Utterly useless and embarrassingly inept with all his ministerial positions.
Michael Green
Sebastian fox 😂😂😂
The Tories should never have cut defence in the 1st place. Cameron devastated UK Forces.
I remember when Conservative PM Margaret Thatcher devastated UK naval forces in the 1981 Defence Review (just before the Falklands War in 1982). (This included selling or scrapping 1 carrier, 2 amphibious landing ships, and 20% of the navy’s destroyers and frigates - the very ships that were needed in the Falklands conflict).
Grant Chapps is like Sunak Became a politician as a HOBBY. Average is too high a target for him to reach - God help the UK over the next few years - Defence Light😢
"We know where the public is" - they want the Tories out of Government ASAP. Make them pay on voting day!
One of our local MPs said to me that, "Turkeys don't vote for Christmas," I replied, "They do if it means losing fewer turkeys."
"Hoping the waters wont wash them away". Do you mean the sewerage sweeping down the rivers ???????.
I recall reading that Defence spending was 2.7% of GDP under the last Labour Government. If that's the case we are supposed to be cheering and waving our flags over a vague promise to "increase" Defence spending by 2030 to less in real terms than they inherited 2 decades before?
@leecooper8589. Inflation under Labour peaked at 2.3% and the Tories 'reduced' it to 4.6%. Taxes, policing , NHS waiting lists and crime have all been "reduced" under the Tories , even zero boat crossings that were zero under Labour have been reduced to 250+ a day😂😂
His priority is his tribe and thats not the English they are bottom of the list
@Puffball-ll1ly
Exactly, Ukraine is about revenge on the Slavs and it doesn't matter if their Ukrainian or Russian.
Hmmm, my dog just went nuts when he read the previous comment
Britain.
_"the gift that keeps on giving"_
😂
The Tory ministers and MPs are thinking “Britain, the grift that keeps on giving.”
New great expression on British humour
Chapps had too much Schnapps talking about Germany.
This is what happens when businessmen get involved in politics.
That is not the diagraced Grant Schapps. That is Sebastian Green and I claim my £5 prize!
Put him in charge of the civil service , all the tools together
There sending some of them to Rewanda to process the ones we are sending over there. There asking them for volunteers we could hope Shapps and Sunak will volunteer???
Where the public is? Seriously, the general British public are undereducated and completely unaware of defence needs or plans. Sunak wants to be Thatcher in the Falklands. We watch from the continent and laugh.
Why the dig at the civil service unions!?
Their seditious behaviour?
Because they’re easy targets.
@@jimthompson9370 What seditious behaviour. Specify
@@MrDeadhead1952 Brexit. Visa’s. Is that enough?
@@jimthompson9370 No. What's seditious about either?
The prime minister needs to step down he doesn't do anything for the British🇬🇧 people🤬😡😡
Does a lot for Modi ( Indian pM letting in a million Indians as they send cash home like most economic migrants) on the hope we scrounge a 💩 trade deal with them pre GE like the really bad Ozzy one 😖! .. just to say they have a deal😏
A November election would be hilarious. All the tories would lose their jobs right before Christmas 😂
They get a winding-up payment of 2 months when they loose their seats. But still looking forward to that day.
Schapps is absolute 🤡
Rod Liddell….get a life sir, your obsession about working from home is so passé ………just be happy Millwall stayed up……
His obsessions are usually trivial, meaningless matters.
I found today that the Air Force is having difficulties finding enough fighter pilots to train the next generation of fighter pilots and the pilots we do have are leaving for better paid jobs. An airline pilot earns double the pay of an experienced RAF jet fighter pilot according to the figures I was given. Increments in pay was either frozen or well below inflation most years since 2010. The RAF are pleading for retired pilots to resume their careers with little consideration that many ex-pilots would be taking a drop in salary. Another victim of this government's policy of depressing the income of public sector workers.
Smoke and mirrors feels like.
Defence spending is abysmal, just when it's going to be needed.
They should be talking about getting rid of "Grant Shapps" what a third rate politician. They sacked him and then re-hired him (because they were so desperate)
Apparantly they are freezing it for 5 years...Then raising it by 2.5 % lol. Its a sleight of hand again.
We have 7 million on NHS waiting lists, we really don't need to go to war or spend money on military, we spend half what the Germans do on their health service.
Imagine the NHS waiting list if Putin keeps heading West
@@Boghopper1979 Putin can't even get out of the Donbass, he'll never get past Poland
@@JuliusFawcett Poland has no tactical nukes.
@@JuliusFawcett If he gets as far as Poland then the UK as a fellow NATO member would be obligated to join the war along with all other NATO members. Ukraine is all that stands between Putin and WWIII.
@@kevinsmarts9953 obligated by who? We don't need NATO, we need to spend the money on the NHS now! People are dying now! People are long term off work because we don't spend enough on the NHS today! Putin is not an imminent threat, he arrested ivanov this week, the regime is crumbling. We need to look after our own today.
I'll bet he's the first defense secretary that has 4 different identities
Let's have a general election then everyone will know where "the people are".
How on earth did the PM think Shapps should be made Minister of Defense, its beyond me. He couldn't have done any research on his history.
Spending loads on defence is really important now.
I think that's what people said in 1939, too.
Can't Shapps previously wore a name badge pretending to be Michael Green selling get rich quick schemes. He also previously resigned over a tragic bullying scandal.
Shapes as been taking two many apps he doesn't no what day it is.
Stop the contracting out of the military, let our military do what they do best for themselves. After all the amalgamations the numbers were much lower. Then Capita was contracted for recruitment and that has been a total disaster. They cut the equipment budget so that has to be addressed so at least he had given something but much more is needed.
I think part of Capita's contract has been to deliberately stop as many people from joining the armed forces as possible simply because the Tories don't want to pay for it.
Absolutely agree!@@debbiegilmour6171
I love that I could tell that was Susie talking before I read it.
IT'S TIME THE MILITARY TURNED ON THE GOVERNMENT, LIKE WHAT IS HAPPENING IN AMERICA. 😂😂
Shapps makes 'failing Grayling' look like the brain of Britain.
Turning the lights off wasn't to save electricity it was so that the bombers could not see where the towns were. Reinterpreting history again.
It was called a black out because all lights had to be off so the German bombers couldn't see the towns and cities. Its the same reason that even now if you buy blinds or curtains that completely block out the light they are called black out blinds/curtains.
"Comrade Colonel , what is the strength of the British forces?"
"One second Comrade Putin while I turn on the TV!"
Spend on supporting the economy, rather than made up preventable conflicts.
I love his optimism 😅
Should be 3%4 GDP base line in times were living in
I think the key word is COMPETENCY
Three stooges coming down the steps.
Sounds like Rod needs to shut his trap, too.
Is Liddle taking Moscow gold? So he wants two members of the security council to be without a functional Government at the same time?
“When I see what Russia achieved in building up its defence industrial base in two years of the war and what the west has achieved, I think something is wrong on the part of the west,” Kuleba said.😂
Russia is actually fighting a war. A war which they started. They ramped up their military spending because they had to, as Ukraine didn't roll over for them as Putin thought. They've emptied their prisons for war fodder, have lost over 50,000 men and keep throwing their people into this meat grinder. Let's see how many in the UK want to sign up to that insanity.
Russia is spending 23% of GDP on defence, and the UK is spending 2.3%. So Russia is on a war footing, and the UK isn’t.
You can't put a boy to do a man's work.
THEY ARE. TO BUSY GIVING UKRAINE MONEY UK DEFENCE COULD HAVE USED THAT MONEY.
They won't need to because Ukraine are doing the fighting now.
@@tw25rw Don't confuse them with straightforward logic.
Susie Boniface needs to come clean with her support for Israel
I have no confidence in Grant shapps
Grunt Shapps..ex "Minister of all trades" but "Master of None" The biggest Wally in the House.
Are Rishi’s trousers too short? Maybe he’s too short for his style of walking or too short for the job
The political system in UK is rotten 😂😂😂
Seems like the english public is struggling to have a comprehensive understanding of the cross roads between economics and politics. Here in the USA we have similar difficulties. In order to have more funds available for defense, one has to have more income. So one must increase productivity and sales, including to foreign lands, in order to have more money available for defense spending.
Michael Green 😂
Rowanda has started yet,don’t get to excited..
He has been uselessat anything he has been near. He is another about to lose his job.
Michael Green
Chloe Tory.
is it Shapps I thought it was Michael green or was it corrine stockheath,check your history and he was done for plagirism another tory criminal!!!
They let any clown on this podcast
Russia is at 6% 😢
Most of what Russia produces is artillery and old style tanks. They spend a lot on refurbishing old tanks and artillery. Russia actually produces 3 million rounds of artillery ammo a year. We do not use much of those primitive weapons.
They also have a not very big economy.
@ragingmonk6080 Russia has the most powerful battle tested military in the world now. Britain like a small devil dog can only bite ankles and run away
@@Puffball-ll1ly LOL, Russia showed that they have no military. The world laughs and the military industrial complex is now saying China is the real threat. Russia fights like it is WWII. LMOA!!!
@@Puffball-ll1ly battle depleted you mean. Tested and regularly failing.
Chapps should stop dying his hair.
This government is hanging around like a Bad Smell !
Overall, I'm sure Susie has well-meaning intentions.
However, I detect an underlying anxiety in her voice, as I do many others, with the drumbeat of war getting louder in the distance...
We are talking politics, so they're walking a line before an election. After which, if they win, shall probably increase defence spending to 3%, within 6-18 months, as this is logical, because to do it now would alienate part of the electorate, which would be political suicide.
Ideally, it needs to be 4-5% of GDP as we are in Cold War 2.0.
Civilization is just a veneer...
If you keep one eye on the past, you are blind in one eye, but if you forget the past, you are blind in both...
You may not want war, but war will find you.
So if you want peace,
Prepare for war.
Ex. RE
Ubique
In 1962, the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis at the height of the Cold War, the UK spent 7% of GDP on defence. Now, the UK is spending only 2.33% - 1/3rd as much.
@timonsolus
Exactly, buddy 💪🏼
If I were in charge, I would demand real action on defence, with an immediate increase of 1%, then 0.5% year on year until we hit at least 4.5%+
I would also make sure that our armed forces are at the front & centre of housing, social support, NHS+, etc...
To those who say we can not afford it, I say we can not afford not to...
@@gadgetgus : Absolutely. The rich need to be taxed more to pay for it.
I’ve voted Conservative all my life but this shower are woeful.
That’s because they aren’t really Conservatives anymore. They are UKIP in all but name. The traditional Conservatives were kicked out of the party or silenced by Boris Johnson in 2019.
Yeah 2.5% by 2030 joke but we can give Ukraine millions possibly billions
Ukraine is not given actual cash. The UK sends millions of pounds worth of equipment that it already has. The cost is how much has to be spent to replace it and as a lot of it is old and would need replacing soon anyway the actual cost is not nearly as high as the figures branded about.
@@kevinsmarts9953 we will have to disagree
@@BrianFairlamb I'm explaining the facts of how funding is provided. You can disagree of course but you are wrong.
For example the Storm Shadow missiles which the UK provided and proved invaluable to Ukraine in sinking those ships either side of the new year are only meant to be in service until 2032 when it will be replaced with the next generation missile.
@@kevinsmarts9953 Its irrelevant all that equipment costs millions or more and at the end of the day its the tax payer who funds those , my point was how come we can give millions of pounds worth of equipment away but we cant reach our commitment of 2.5% now instead of 2030 because in reality we should have reached 2.5% years ago, but we have been cutting our defence budget for years , that's why Shapps had the Gaul weeks ago to say if it came to war we would be protected by NATO , while we give everything away , they have been cutting to the bone for years , everyone knows it.
@@BrianFairlamb It still doesn't change the fact that come 2032 loads of those missiles would have to be destroyed so by giving them to Ukraine it is not actually costing the tax payer anything. This isn't the same for all the equipment sent of course. My point was that the value attached is not the same as the actual cost in tax money. The UK has only used Storm Shadow itself in the Gulf war and even then it was the cruise missile variant and not the anti-ship version that was sent to Ukraine.
I completely agree that funding has been too low for the last 14 years, before austerity it was at 2.7% of GDP and if it had remained there then the support that could have been given to Ukraine and the safety of Europe would have been significant and many lives could have been saved.
Who is this woman that they dont show her face? Is she a stand up comedian? She is not funny at all and if she a political commentator she has no credibility talking this way.
Susie Boniface can always be relied on to turn on the hysteria tap.
Has she no idea that some regard her as the poster girl of the vacuous chattering classes?
Her income is derived by scribbling something or other and by pitching up to a studio every now and again and providing the light relief.
Frankly I'm somewhat surprised her husband allows her to have a job when clearly there's housework, with her name on it, to be done at home.
Outrageous!
And gives rise to the question should women be educated to secondary school standard at all?
Obviously there's one, or perhaps two, women who could attend a uni but not to read political science.
Dressmaking or secretarial courses perhaps but let's not go mad.
Happy to debate of course.
What's there to debate with a misogynistic bigot?
It's perfectly acceptable to critique her opinions. Casual sexism, saying women should be at home doing the housework and questioning whether they should be educated, that's totally beyond the pale in 2024. Those views pretty much tell me that you, or your opinions, belong in a different era and totally voids anything else that you've got to say, even if it's apposite or salient.
@@grizcuzWell put, the person is a fool.
@@royboy565
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
You're an idiot.
Why not read and re-read the post until you "get it".
Is that you Jacob Rees-Mogg?
General election now,for goodness sake just go 🤡🤡🤡😡👿
Anathar clom tori 😊😊😊😊😊