That's about £5.5 billion a year which is the equivalent of around 9 % of the current defence budget. Not really a small sum of money. (View Post)

I agree. We need to accept we are effectively moving to a wartime situation and act and spend accordingly. I still think we need to have a radical rethink of Government and what we expect it to provi… (View Post)

Except this isn't a preferential or transferrable voting system so, yes, the poll does of course show exactly what TSE is saying. (View Post)

Difficult to say for sure but, sad to say, I can easily see that being the case with Trump in charge. I mean, the man starts wars because someone annoyed him on X. I hardly think it is a stretch to t… (View Post)

Scarily for the UK it is 1.4 (View Post)