UK to boost defence spending to 2.5% of GDP, Sunak says
UK to boost defence spending to 2.5% of GDP, Sunak says
PM announces plan to increase spending to £87bn a year by 2030 on visit to Poland
The UK currently spends 2.32% of GDP on defence.
Had to scroll quite far down the article to find out what the current % is.
Which is higher than the minimum required spending for a NATO country, although some don't spend that much.
the minimum
requiredrecommended spendingFTFY
UK timelines are hilarious. China will have finished one 5 year plan and then an entire other 5 year plan by then.
They can't even embezzle properly.
In the UK's defence it doesn't have the luxury of simply ordering change to happen.
China: Oh so your house stand in way of glorious five year plan for bullet train connection of country. Fuck you! You no have house anymore!
UK: I'm awfully sorry but would it be possible to draft plans for possibly building a new railway line made up fifteen year old technology to potentially maybe come fifteen miles close to your house? What's that? Oh I do beg your pardon, no I don't want to challenge this in the ECHR. I do apologise. Please allow me to buy you a cup of tea.
That being said, the UK sucks balls at planning and building and I don't think this will now ever improve. We've hit peak UK about twenty years ago in that regard 🥹.
It also doesn't help if after getting planning permission to build a new railway you then cancel the project because the prime minister is supporting a dipshit.