Starmer has today said that he will make the UK  a ‘battle-ready, armour-clad nation’. What this means is that he will spend billions of pounds more on new submarines and arms while continuing to impose austerity on ordinary people and driving people further and further into poverty.

His war-mongering talk of war-readiness and a new era of threat are a cynical attempt to deflect any criticisms of his policy of cuts and austerity. His call for everyone to be part of the defence of the country is an attempt to label anyone who opposes his obscene militarism and austerity as unpatriotic. But we will not be distracted by his vile rhetoric. His statements that we are under threat are a deliberate lie. The only threat to UK citizens comes from this government and from the cuts and austerity it is imposing on us.

No UK citizen has been killed by the imaginary enemy Starmer is arming against, yet up to 400,000 have been killed by over a decade of austerity and many thousands  more will die if Starmer goes through with the cuts to disability benefits. What Starmer is doing is re-distributing money from the poorest in society into the already bulging pockets of arm dealers.

Starmer is waging war; he is waging a class war against the ordinary people of this country. But we will stop him!
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