Zack Polanski has claimed that the EU should take up the role of global military policeman. He previously said the UK should team up with Mexico and Brazil as NATO alternative…
Matt Forde asked on his podcast with Polanski whose role it should be to police the globe seeing as “Britain has failed in its role as a nuclear power… and we just sort of sit here and go, ‘oh well, it’s not our role to police it’… if it’s not our role, whose role is it?”
Polanski replied: “The EU. So I think if you were gonna-” Forde chimed in: “Or NATO?”
The Green leader attacked NATO:
“Well, I think there is a role there for NATO, or we’re gonna get into this conversation, I’m sure, but Donald Trump has so much power in NATO that I think that it becomes impossible to make a sensible, coherent decision that isn’t about United States militeralism [sic] or them making more money from their military-industrial complex.
In fact, 86% of our arms imports in this country come from the United States. I think that’s a dangerous issue of resilience, and whether that’s as manufacturing our own weapons or using procurement across Europe, I think it’s time to rebuild those ties with our closest European neighbours.”
Guido sympathises with co-conspirators who struggle to keep abreast of Polanski’s military-industrial-geopolitical stances. Nice to see him backing massively expanded local defence manufacturing…
Speaking at an IPPR think tank event in London, the Health Secretary compared striking junior doctors to mutinous sailors.
“I feel like we’ve turned the ship, the boat’s going in the right direction, except some of the crew are trying to row in one direction while the rest of us are going in the other. You can’t make progress that way. We are seeing an improving NHS, and we’ve seen improvement despite resident doctors’ strikes, but the fact is, performance would have been better and there would have been more money to invest in staff and services if the BMA hadn’t been undertaking the strike action.”