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https://spectator.com/article/voters-get-the-politicians-they-deserve-so-get-ready-for-pm-polanski/

We have not woken up. Not the electorate, not the politicians. Defence is only the most obvious of those areas where we reside in a delusion which allows us to spaff our money on welfare payments for people who identify as ‘anxious’, rather than on defending the country. Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves et al know that we need to invest in our woefully denuded armed forces, and yet the current spend is still a lamentable 2.3 per cent of GDP, despite all the rhetoric. Instead, luxuries remain at the top of the spending list.

Then there is energy. We have the highest energy prices in Europe for industry and the second highest (as a consequence of taxes) for domestic consumers. Donald Trump’s war against Iran has raised the prospect of our country running out of food, never mind oil, and yet our Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband, is wholly averse to drilling for oil or indeed to any attempt to provide energy for Britain which is not based upon milking the supple breasts of transgender otters for their sweet-smelling carbon neutral nectar. This is an absurdity. Ed is not an idiot. He must know. And yet he is trapped in a luxurious ideological prison where the imperatives of 30 years ago are the only ones that matter.

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