According to the UK Independence Party website UKIP will try to achieve the following if they gain power at the 2010 general election: The Defence Budget is of course a result of the country’s defence commitments and society’s willingness to pay for them. Defence spending dropped sharply at the end of the Cold War. A […]
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As I understand the UKIP policy on defence it simply means no change, just more money.
Defence should mean defence, not sorting out the world’s problems as if we were some kind of international police force.
What happens in the world is none of our business except and unless it is a direct threat to our country that we cannot solve by other means.
I quote the £billions spent on ‘defending’ against the Warsaw Pact USSR, which suddenly, simply and mysteriously, folded – the threat proved to be no longer a threat.
Had we gone to war, as we have done in Iraq and Afghanistan, there would have been a nuclear holocaust and nobody would be here arguing on this forum.
War should always be a last resort answer, but all too often in this world it is a first and only reaction to a problem.
I disagree with UKIP policy, if you can call it a policy, and suggest instead we adopt the BNP policy, Defence means defence, not pre-emptive attack at the request of USA or UN.
We should mind our own business, just for a change.
Britain has enough problems of its own, without burdening ouselves with the worry, loss, and cost of overseas wars. Those we go to war against will not show or feel any sense of gratitude towards us.
Defend our own borders, instead of invading others.
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UKIP Policy on Defence