The Guardian

If the right wants money for defence, it can start with MoD wastefulness – or even the pensioner triple lock | Polly Toynbee (opens in new tab)

There is nothing left to be squeezed from disabled people or families, yet some continue to bang the same old drumWhat’s it to be, warfare or welfare, social or military spending, guns or butter? Hermann Göring coined that phrase calling for re-armament, “Guns will make us powerful, butter will only make us fat.” In her “” speech, Margaret Thatcher in 1976 warned that the Soviets “put guns before butter, while we put just about everything before guns” – though defence spending in her time, an...

Read the original article
Sign in to keep reading the full article.

Keyboard Shortcuts

Navigation

Next / previous post
j/k
Open post
oorEnter
Preview post
v

Post Actions

Love post
a
Like post
l
Dislike post
d
Undo reaction
u
Save / unsave
s

Recommendations

Add interest / feed
Enter
Not interested
x

Go to

Home
gh
Interests
gi
Feeds
gf
Likes
gl
History
gy
Changelog
gc
Settings
gs
Discover
gb
Search
/

General

Show this help
?
Submit feedback
!
Close modal / unfocus
Esc

Press ? anytime to show this help