Jeremy Corbyn has presented his vision of an “independent” foreign policy in the New Statesman today. Apart from complaining about Maduro’s arrest, he suggests about two actual elements of said foreign policy:
“In 2024-25, the UK spent more than £60bn – or around 2.5 per cent of GDP – on “defence”. Starmer has pledged to increase this to a staggering 5 per cent by 2035. Imagine if we spent as much time talking about climate alliances – and how to empower them – as we do about military alliances. Imagine if the money we spent on killing people overseas was spent protecting the planet that we all depend for survival.”
Apart from that Corbyn – who recently founded a now-dead party – suggests abolishing the veto of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and instituting an “expanded, rolling membership on it.” A vision which manages to be entirely vague and clearly disastrous at the same time…
Overheard by a co-conspirator in Parliament, minister Chris Bryant speaking to Tory MP Paul Holmes:
“You must be happy now that all the bastards are leaving.”