filoria@lemmy.ml to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year agoBirmingham, Britain's second-largest city, is being forced to dim lights and cut sanitation services due to bankruptcywww.abc.net.auexternal-linkmessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up1159arrow-down11
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minus-squarezurohki@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down4·edit-21 year agoThe UK has spent 12.5 billion pounds on Ukraine in the last 28 months, which at around 5.4 billion per year is 0.4% of the UK’s budget. That’s not an elephant in the room, it’s a mouse under the fridge. It’s not being mentioned because it isn’t significant. The downvotes are because obvious disinformation is obvious.
minus-squarePowerCrazy@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·1 year agoHmm 12.5Billion pounds eh? How much would it cost to “keep the lights on” in Birmingham do you reckon?
minus-squarezurohki@aussie.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·1 year agoThey could always tax the rich, but sure, let’s pretend that the only possible option is the one that helps Russia. There’s a reason why that government is polling so low that it may not even be the opposition in two weeks.
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down5·1 year ago15% of UK households went hungry as of February this year, I’m pretty sure 12.5 BILLION pounds could’ve done a lot of them, but instead that money was spent in Ukraine. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/27/health-emergency-15-of-uk-households-went-hungry-last-month-data-shows The deplorable regime in UK doesn’t give a shit about its own people, let alone Ukrainians.
The UK has spent 12.5 billion pounds on Ukraine in the last 28 months, which at around 5.4 billion per year is 0.4% of the UK’s budget. That’s not an elephant in the room, it’s a mouse under the fridge.
It’s not being mentioned because it isn’t significant. The downvotes are because obvious disinformation is obvious.
Hmm 12.5Billion pounds eh? How much would it cost to “keep the lights on” in Birmingham do you reckon?
They could always tax the rich, but sure, let’s pretend that the only possible option is the one that helps Russia.
There’s a reason why that government is polling so low that it may not even be the opposition in two weeks.
15% of UK households went hungry as of February this year, I’m pretty sure 12.5 BILLION pounds could’ve done a lot of them, but instead that money was spent in Ukraine. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/feb/27/health-emergency-15-of-uk-households-went-hungry-last-month-data-shows
The deplorable regime in UK doesn’t give a shit about its own people, let alone Ukrainians.