UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace: he even looks shifty, doesn’t he?
Why is the UK’s Defence Secretary, Ben Wallace, so popular among Tory voters? If he has his way, he’ll turn the world into a radioactive cinder!
Wallace has been making a big show of defiance against Vladimir Putin, saying that the threats of nuclear attack from Russia are worthless because he is outnumbered and outgunned by Nato.
But that won’t help if Putin actually launches a nuclear strike. There is no defence against such an attack.
Wallace reckons that Britain’s nuclear weapon-armed submarines are “deep underwater, hiding, waiting, in case Britain needs to be protected”.
But they’ll only be asked to decide whether to launch their missiles – and even then, only if the United States approves of it – after an enemy (possibly Russia) launches a nuclear attack against the UK.
By then, it will be too late for all of us. We’ll either be dead as a result of bombing, or we’ll die soon after from radiation poisoning, and that’s not a pleasant way to go.
There is only one effective way to use nuclear weapons, and that is not to use them at all.
Wallace is wrong to rattle the sabre at Putin because he is taunting a man who appears willing to go nuclear despite the consequences – which are that his entire country will become a radioactive hell very soon afterwards.
The simple fact is that the UK doesn’t have to broadcast that it is helping Ukraine.
Our government is entirely capable of arming Ukrainian forces to the hilt without ever letting Russia know how its enemy received the weapons.
Shouting about how we can poison Russia as badly as it can poison us does not help anybody.
By doing so, Wallace is attacking his own fellow citizens more than anybody in Russia.
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Headbangers: Liz ‘War Head’ Truss and Dominic ‘Air Head’ Raab.
Don’t get your hopes up – she hasn’t learned her lesson.
Instead of demanding that the UK send warplanes to Ukraine – thereby provoking Vladimir Putin to nuke us until we glow, Liz Truss is now suggesting that we merely send the parts.
So now she wants us to send self-assembly kit planes to the eastern Europe conflict. How is that better?
It seems War Head Liz has been reminded that Nato policy is not to provoke Putin; the United States recently vetoed a Polish plan to deliver fighter jets for that very reason.
But she – and Air Head Dominic Raab, it seems – is still calling for western nations to declare in as loud a way as possible that they are helping Ukraine.
So my question remains: what is wrong with these people?
If they want to help a beleaguered fellow nation, then they can do it in the tried and tested way – covertly. They send it by secret routes and they don’t talk about it.
Blathering loudly and continually that they are ignoring Putin’s threats and will do whatever the hell they like will only attract harm.
Perhaps that is what Truss and Raab and the rest of the Tory headbangers really want.
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Warmonger Liz: the foreign secretary has been rattling the sabre too loudly at Vladimir Putin when any conflict between the UK and Russia would be like sending this toy tank out to shoot down a nuclear missile.
Q. When a maniac with his finger on the nuclear button is warning that sending weapons to help another country will be an act of war, what do you do?
A. You remove Liz Truss from public view because she will instantly decide that it’s a good idea to dare him.
That’s right – after Vladimir Putin said he would consider it an act of war if western countries send aid to Ukraine, Truss is saying we should provide warplanes.
She’s a lunatic.
The sensible course of action for any national government wishing to help a beleaguered fellow nation is to provide that aid covertly. In fact, the UK has already been accused of this, with Russia alleging an SAS operation has taken place.
But of course, with no proof, any government has what’s known as plausible deniability. We can say any claims are nonsense and we wouldn’t dream of it.
Truss should follow the example of an alleged 56 fellow MPs – on all sides of the House of Commons – who find it extremely easy to hide their alleged sexual misconduct from us all.
Warmonger Liz: the foreign secretary has been rattling the sabre too loudly at Vladimir Putin when any conflict between the UK and Russia would be like sending this toy tank out to shoot down a nuclear missile.
I’m not saying Vladimir Putin reads Vox Political.
It is far more likely that Yr Obdt Srvt, looking at the available evidence, came to the correct conclusion about what was going on.
In an article yesterday, I stated that Putin’s decision to go to nuclear alert, said at the time to be because of “aggressive statements” by the West, was a serious demand for western nations to tone down their rhetoric, and the West has taken that seriously.
We should be hopeful, I continued, because it would stop Liz Truss from putting her foot in her mouth every time she opens it.
The Queen of Cheese’s latest boneheadedness has been to support calls for UK citizens to go to Ukraine – a move which, if it happened, would almost certainly be seen by Putin as the UK sending troops to that country (despite an official statement from her colleague, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, that this will not take place).
Unable to stop the flow of gibberish from her mouth, Truss claimed that anybody going to Ukraine would be fighting “for democracy”.
It’s exactly the kind of inflammatory talk that is likely to push Putin over the edge and endanger us all.
Here’s the confirmation that I was right:
So there you have it – direct from the Russian president’s mouth.
If UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson had any sense, he would sack Truss – simply as a gesture to show that the UK does not want to provoke nuclear war.
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Liz Truss: even though it is unlikely to be serious, we can hope that Putin’s nuclear threat acts as a deterrent that stops her from making stupid, ineffectual threats against a country that could squash the UK like a bug.
The UK’s right-wing media may be doomsaying at an industrial level but the Russia-Ukraine crisis is not as horrifying as they’re saying.
For starters – as This Site and others suggested would happen – Ukraine and Russia are to hold negotiations for peace, at an undisclosed location on the border with Belarus.
Russia’s Vladimir Putin had suggested talks take place in Minsk but Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was reluctant to go to a country that had acted as a staging post for the Russian invasion of his country.
It’s a reason to be hopeful, although Mr Zelenskyy said he was not convinced the meeting would have a positive outcome. However:
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he needed to use every opportunity to secure peace.
Bet then – just when some of us were starting to think we could see an end to the crisis – Putin announced that he is putting his country’s nuclear forces on “special alert”.
He said it was because of “aggressive statements” by the West.
It has been widely interpreted as a threat to launch nuclear missiles against western countries. So – an escalation of tensions and we should all be terrified, right?
Well, no.
Mature analysts are saying Putin may now believe he has miscalculated the amount of resistance his forces were likely to meet in Ukraine, along with the response from western nations that have proved more united than he expected.
So he has reached for new ideas – including the nuclear option. The trouble is, nuclear warfare is pointless for him – insane, in fact – because the west would respond by sending its own nuclear arsenal to turn Russia into a radioactive cinder. Mutually Assured Destruction – there’s a reason the acronym is “MAD”.
So – again – it’s unlikely Putin actually means he’s prepared to use nuclear weapons.
That’s a good thing too, isn’t it?
But – there’s always a “but” – it is a serious demand for western nations to tone down their rhetoric, and the West has taken that seriously.
And this brings me to the last of my reasons to be hopeful: It stops Liz Truss from putting her foot in her mouth every time she opens it.
The Queen of Cheese’s latest boneheadedness has been to support calls for UK citizens to go to Ukraine – a move which, if it happened, would almost certainly be seen by Putin as the UK sending troops to that country (despite an official statement from her colleague, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace, that this will not take place).
Unable to stop the flow of gibberish from her mouth, Truss claimed that anybody going to Ukraine would be fighting “for democracy”.
It’s exactly the kind of inflammatory talk that is likely to push Putin over the edge and endanger us all.
So we should welcome the decision by western leaders to modify their tone. Hopefully it means Truss will be told to hold her tongue until the crisis is over.
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Dictator Johnson: like all fascists, the only rights that interest Boris Johnson are his own – which is why he has announced he intends to abolish yours – and stop the courts from ruling that anything he does is illegal.
The last week in UK politics was seismic – in terms of the changes it announced.
Boris Johnson is using the Tories huge Parliamentary majority to change our way of life, fundamentally.
Here’s what they have started. But what can you do about it?
1. The Conservatives are ending your right to protest.
And they announced it at precisely the wrong moment. After a vigil for a woman who had been kidnapped and murdered – allegedly by a policeman – turned into a riot when policemen started attacking the female participants, Home Secretary Priti Patel introduced a new law that allows police to arrest anybody for making a demonstration that is noticed by anybody else.
There’s no point in protesting if you’re not allowed to make enough noise for other people to notice it, of course.
The move has been interpreted – correctly – as an attempt to head off protests against the Conservatives’ planned political changes that will alter the UK from democracy (albeit a not-very-progressive one) into a full-blown dictatorship.
2. The Tories are giving the police huge new powers of oppression
The example I used was the new power to arrest travellers – not for committing a crime, but on suspicion that they might do so in the future. This comes with a power to confiscate their homes.
Priti Patel’s Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is full of similar increases of oppression, against people in all parts of the UK’s society, we’re told.
3. The Conservatives are continuing to turn a blind eye to crimes against women – especially if they are committed by the police
Hate crime is the trademark of Conservative governments in the UK since 2010. They have stirred up hatred against migrant workers; they’ve stirred it up against people with long-term illnesses and disabilities. Their new Police Bill will stir up more hate against minorities, while failing to protect more than half the population from crime.
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill sets the penalty for attacking a statue at 10 years imprisonment. That is twice as long a term as the starting-point sentence for rape.
We discovered this in the same week that a serving police officer walked free from a court after admitting assaulting a woman who was just walking home at night, using his police training to try to wrestle her to the ground while flinging misogynistic verbal abuse at her. His colleagues had tried to ignore her complaint when she first filed it.
Oh, and after we were told the Metropolitan Police had learned its lessons from an incident when two of its officers published WhatsApp posts of them posing with the dead bodies of two murdered women, another Met officer was alleged to have sent a “vile” post about Sarah Everard, while guarding her body.
4. The Conservative government thinks giving £2.6 million to a firm based in a country that is hostile to the UK – for communications equipment (think about it) – is money better-spent than giving nurse’s an above-inflation pay rise in reward for their work against Covid-19.
5. The Tories are hoping to strike trade deals with nations across the word that violate the human rights of their citizens.
Like is attracted to like, it seems; the Tory government is ripping up the human rights of UK citizens.
6. The Conservatives have announced that they will spend billions of pounds adding 65 warheads to the UK’s arsenal of nuclear weapons.
The UK does not have the facilities needed to fire all of these missiles and in any case it would be madness to do so, as it would certainly lead to the destruction of the entire nation in a retaliatory nuclear inferno.
7. The Conservatives have announced an attack on democracy with a plan to change the voting system at local elections to favour them.
They are using the result of a 2011 referendum – about a different subject – to justify changing the system by which Combined Authority mayors, the mayor of London and police and crime commissioners are elected from a form of proportional representation by which those elected must be supported by more than half of the electorate to the old FPTP (First Past The Post) system by which the candidate with the most votes wins, even if supported by a tiny minority of the electorate.
8. The Tories are following through on their threat to end the separation of powers that prevents the UK from falling into dictatorship, by curbing the courts’ ability to rule government actions illegal.
Boris Johnson was caught breaking the law over Brexit and the prorogation of Parliament in 2019 – when he actually misled the Queen in order to get her to end a Parliamentary session early – and he’s butt-hurt about it.
As a result, he intends to ensure that the courts will not be able to stop him from doing anything he likes in the future – no matter how many laws he breaks.
These are just the highlights – of which the worst must be Boris Johnson’s plan to put himself and his government above the law while subjecting the rest of us to increasing oppression.
The big question now is: what are you going to do about it?
We know that a quarter of the UK’s population is 100 per cent behind Johnson because they voted for him and his party – right? Granted, a small number of them might be wavering now because of the extremism of the changes listed above – and remember, they are only events that happened last week – but there remains a significant rump of Tory support.
About a third of those who are left are children who are too young to have their opinions taken seriously by the political elite.
That leaves around half the UK’s population to stand up for democracy.
But the question remains: How do you protect your freedoms when your right to do so is being taken away?
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Terrifying: it’s not quite a Nazi salute but Boris Johnson’s policies come straight from the Adolf Hitler playbook – except Hitler didn’t have nuclear weapons and Johnson does.
Warmongering UK prime minister Boris Johnson is reversing plans to reduce the UK’s arsenal of nuclear weapons after a review of foreign policy.
From what the news reports are telling me – and they are confused – it seems he wants to start a war with a country bordering on or within the Indian or Pacific Oceans and wants to set off a few nuclear weapons, to show how hard he is.
Well, he’s a blowhard, that’s for sure.
And a liar. We knew that already, but today’s reason for saying it can be summed up with the following tweet:
There's apparently no money for nurses to get a proper pay rise.
But there's billions available for even more nuclear weapons.
Yes – Johnson has said there is no money available to prevent nurses from receiving a real-terms pay cut, yet it seems he has plenty to spaff around on penis-substitutes that nobody in their right mind would ever take out of their box.
He’s going to halt a planned reduction of our nuclear stockpile to 180 warheads and instead increase it to 260 – a rise of around 45 per cent. Nobody’s saying what this will cost but we’re looking at many billions of pounds.
Already Johnson’s cheerleaders are making stupid suggestions that the UK will be invaded if Johnson doesn’t start piling on the kilotons. This is nonsense.
The 195 bombs we currently have possess a yield of 100 kilotons – nearly seven times as much as the Hiroshima bomb. Setting off even one of them would be devastating enough – and the only situation in which that could be envisaged is one in which other countries were threatening – or doing – the same.
If that happened, there wouldn’t be a UK to invade.
As a deterrent, 195 warheads is many more than enough. How many times do these damned fools think they can blow up the world?
The backlash has already started:
Let’s not bother with a ‘Children in Need’ day this year.
Let’s have a ‘Trident in Need’ day and give all of those nuclear billions to poor children instead.
Cap on Trident nuclear warhead stockpile to rise by more than 40% https://t.co/WeVrS7le47 Yet we're told that Covid has decimated the economy to such an extent, we can't afford to pay NHS & public sector workers a decent wage. Strange priorities !
Well, guess what: if Johnson gets his way – and with the majority UK voters gave him, he will – this is the only form of protest that his government will allow in the future. Silent protest.
People won’t be allowed to congregate in the streets with banners, and made speeches, or make any visible or audible show of protest because that will provide Priti Patel’s puppet police with the only excuse they need to wade in with their truncheons, break heads and make arrests.
As a result, most of the population – you know the type; the ones who are happy to be distracted with celebrity gossip and junk TV about buying houses – won’t even know there’s anything wrong.
That’s the reason the anti-protest law is being imposed, of course.
Remember when Hitler took power in Germany? He built a bunker in which to plan a massive war, built up his army and stockpiled weapons, while controlling the majority of his population with propaganda and persecuting any dissenters.
For decades, people said it could never happen here in the UK.
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Buddies: Johnson and Donald Trump seem to have shaken hands on a deal to replace Trident, without bothering with trifling matters like… I don’t know… democracy.
When did Parliament approve the plan to buy new nuclear warheads, replacing Trident, from the Pentagon?
I don’t remember that vote!
And if the UK’s MPs haven’t decided on it, then the decision hasn’t been made, and the United States government has no right to say it has.
That wouldn’t stop Boris Johnson telling them it had, though.
What do you reckon? That Johnson has done a secret deal – unilaterally – with the US?
That he intends to place it before Parliament as a fait accompli – a done deal that the UK now has to honour – probably under threat of losing trade deals with the US in the future?
So much for democracy!
Johnson’s Parliamentary majority is such that he would have had the decision he wanted if he had put the deal before MPs in the proper way.
So why did he do it like this?
To show that he can do what he wants? That he is, now, the UK’s dictator?
Britain has committed itself to buying a new generation of nuclear warheads to replace Trident, which will be based on US technology. The decision was revealed by Pentagon officials who disclosed it before an official announcement has been made by the government.
The revelation has dismayed MPs and experts who question why they have learned of the move – which will cost the UK billions of pounds – only after the decision has apparently been made. It has also raised questions about the UK’s commitment to staunching nuclear proliferation and the country’s reliance on the US for a central plank of its defence strategy.
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Amazing. Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson’s first response when asked why she can’t go into a pact with Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour is that he wouldn’t press the nuclear button:
Asked why she could never do a coalition deal with Labour, Jo Swinson’s response will blow your mind. Not poverty. Not hunger. Not homelessness. Not Bedroom Tax. Here is where her priority lay….. (20 seconds video) https://t.co/uaImwb9LyZ
While she is right that new prime ministers’ first job is to write a letter to the captains of the UK’s nuclear submarine fleet, telling them what to do with their missiles in the event of a conflict, she should also know that they don’t have to order the use of those missiles.
Indeed, Edward Heath – of the Conservative Party that Ms Swinson supported so wholeheartedly in the Coalition Government – told them to sail to Australia or New Zealand rather than use their missiles.
He said if a nuclear strike was launched on the UK, there would be nothing to defend and it would be better for them to seek a new life elsewhere.
That is just one example.
For all I know, every UK prime minister has done the same.
But we know now that Jo Swinson would launch nuclear missiles, even if it was pointless to do so.
And this psychopath thinks the electorate will put her in a position to do so.
No thank you – let’s have a Corbyn-led Labour government that will help people live, not plan to enable their deaths.
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The UK and other nuclear powers support a non-proliferaton treaty, which prevents the spread of nuclear weapons – but it has been criticised as ineffective [Image: Getty].
You’ve probably already guessed why Theresa May is unlikely to sign any treaty limiting arms sales of any kind.
It’s for this reason:
Her defence secretary, Michael ‘Bomber’ Fallon, is already looking forward to selling them for a huge profit to anybody with the cash, regardless of their credentials.
And, as Billy Connolly once famously said, the brilliant part is that they could fill any so-called nuclear missiles they sell with doughnuts – anybody insane enough to try using them would get their just desserts (literally).
Even in the shadow of the crisis provoked by North Korea, greed will win over human lives every time.
People who voted for this lunatic’s idea of “strong and stable” leadership should have known that.
Pressure is mounting on Theresa May to sign up to a UN treaty calling for the eventual elimination of nuclear weapons.
More than 120 nations endorsed the global treaty at a summit in July, which warns that a complete ban is the only way to prevent the “catastrophic humanitarian consequences” of the use of nuclear weapons.
Britain and other nuclear nations opposed the move, but critics have called on the Prime Minister to change course this week when the treaty will be opened for signatures at the UN’s annual general assembly.
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