The Green Party’s Deputy Leader spoke to LBC yesterday about defence spending. Asked if it should go up, Rachel Millward said: “I think we need to spend more on diplomatic relationships across Europe, across working out who our allies really are. You know, we can’t take peace for granted. I think this is this this is a serious an incredibly serious and dangerous time.” Genius…
Asked if more needed to be spent on defence, Millward said: “Well, I think we’re seeing, aren’t we, that we need to look at alternative structures and alternative ways of keeping the peace across the world and that needs to take massive amount of effort. So, but this is certainly not, you know, the focus of my daily role.” Starting to fall apart here…
Asked if she agreed with the Defence Select Committee’s view that an extra £29 billion must be spent on defence, Millward said: “I don’t know. I’d have to look at that and we’d have to think about what our position is.” And there you go…
Millward – who sits as a deputy leader of Wealden District Council – was previously mocked by the public in Crowborough for claiming that incoming asylum seekers are “doctors, engineers, and surgeons.” Guido also hears Millward skipped a meeting held by the MOD with local army and Air Force cadet representatives last week to sort their accommodation after being kicked out of Crowborough training camp. Which now contains asylum seekers…
After being blocked from standing at the Gorton and Denton by-election, Andy Burnham said at the Centre for Social Justice:
“I’m very much focussing on my job. I’ve said everything I think I’m going to say about that.”