New Year in London: Mass Poverty is Deeply Rooted. Ongoing Praise for NATO Militarization Ukraine
Billions sent to neo-Nazis while Britons endure neoliberal austerity.
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The traditional London New Year fireworks display last night was dedicated to a dead queen and neo-Nazis on the endangered list in Ukraine.
A huge moment – Ukraine’s winning song Stefania featured in the London firework display. 👏 🇺🇦 pic.twitter.com/Q5L2qRSFuj
— ESC Conor ☘️ (@ESCConor) January 1, 2023
Let’s call it what it is—a perverse acclamation for a dead monarch and genocidal maniacs in Ukraine.
No word how much this gaudy tribute of support for mass murder and war crimes will cost the average Briton. The state is focused on spending stacks of money on bombs and bullets to be sent to psychopaths in Ukraine. It is far less concerned with the welfare of its own citizens.
“Poverty is deeply rooted in the UK, with a decade of cuts meaning millions of families across the country are struggling through financial hardship,” reports Big Issue. “Many more are being pushed below the breadline as the cost of living crisis hits low-income households the hardest.”
Over 14 and a half million people—more than one in five—live in poverty in the UK, including 4.3 million children, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
The cost of living crisis will worsen poverty rates, with more than one million people set to be plunged into poverty this winter. Many will struggle to afford the basics to live and rely on food banks, and the newly established warm banks, to survive as temperatures plummet.
In May, then Prime Minister Boris Johnson promised “the dispatch of an additional £300 million of military equipment. Within days that has been increased by a further billion pounds to £1.3 billion,” the World Socialist Web Site reports.
By November, that figure had increased to 7.09 billion euros, only overshadowed by the free-wheeling dispensation of truckloads of borrowed fiat currency by the USG and “EU institutions,” according to Statista.
As Russia began its SMO to rid the threat posed by neo-Nazi psychopaths and terminate NATO’s plan to emplace missile batteries and other offensive military equipment on a shared border, the British Ministry of Defense (sic) “announced that it plans to invest 238 billion euros ($270 billion) in state-of-the-art military equipment and necessary support services,” according to TheDefensePost.
“We have entered a new ‘competitive age’ of resurgent authoritarian states and diversifying threats,” UK Secretary of State for Defence Ben Wallace explained.
“As the threat changes, we must adapt, remaining clear-eyed about what capabilities we need, retire those that are less relevant, and invest in areas that will give us a strategic advantage.”
However, the threat of British subjects enduring malnutrition and freezing to death in the winter does not seem to be a concern for Rishi Sunak, the new Prime Minister, a former Goldman Sachs banker, and Chancellor of the Exchequer (tax enforcement and appropriation).
Sunak is known as the “hedge fund prime minister.” He is worth nearly a billion dollars and is the richest man to hold the office of Prime Minister. He is a cherished member of the financial elite, and as such believes the little people must suffer while the state diverts billions to the purchase of death machinery for Zelenskyy and his neo-Nazis henchmen.
Much of the war materiel sent by Britain, the US, and European “partners,” is targeted and destroyed by Russia before it can reach the front. Additionally, a large percentage ends up in the hands of miscreants in Africa and elsewhere, as Ukraine is run by money-grubbing oligarchs more than willing to steal and sell weapons to terrorists.
As for the fate of the average Briton, The Globalist reports,
But as with all Goldman Sachs-trained bankers, Sunak believes in austerity. He is a continuation of Boris Johnson who believes in cutting public investment and public support for health and poorer areas, while protecting the better off. (Emphasis added.)
In other words, the UK, like the USG, is primarily dedicated to pushing the neoliberal project forward, despite the cost to the majority of the population, which is kept in blinkered ignorance.
Brits continue to vote for and expect to be taken care of by self-serving careerist politicians, many of them professional liars, cheats, and sociopaths. The appointment of a Goldman Sachs banker to act as Prime Minister should be a wake-up call for all British subjects.
Millions of Britons may miss a meal or two while shivering in the cold, unable to pay to heat their homes, but Zelenskyy and his genocidal-minded neo-Nazis will get their blood-stained hands on more missiles, main battle tanks, self-propelled artillery, armored personnel carriers, fighting vehicles, etc., all of it destined to be blown to smithereens by the Russians.
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