Probably keen to represent GSK, AstraZeneca and financial services companies. Though to hell with the rest of us.
Comment on Tax cut for Musk, Bezos and other tech billionaires on the table, Starmer confirms
imrighthere@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Could somebody explain to me why the UK keeps bending over for trump ? You have a bit of russian in the house or something ?
IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
floofloof@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
From an international perspective, it just makes the British government look scared and weak.
TheTonDog@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Blame the historic “special relationship”. We’re a US vassal state, out of touch with the rest of European sentiment.
lemmus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 11 months ago
That’s not actually correct. The missiles (the rocket part) are indeed leased from the US, and the maintenance every few years is thus done by them - which keeps the cost down. The warheads are the UKs.
A freshly serviced trident missile should be good for 5-7 years (although they currently get serviced more frequently).
If the UK falls out with the US then we have a number of years to either build or own replacement or buy/lease them off another country - France for example has several options in this space that could be easily adapted.
We are where we are because nobody could imagine the US going rogue like this, a failure of imagination for sure but our nukes are in fact in our control
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chathamhouse.org/…/uks-nuclear-deterrent-relies-u…
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