As I posted on social media last night:
The UK is to substantially expand its nuclear deterrent by buying a squadron of American-made fighter jets that are capable of delivering US tactical warheads that are likely to be stored on British soil.
They added:
The announcement by Keir Starmer at the Nato summit marks the most significant change in Britain's nuclear posture since the end of the cold war, with US bombs set to return to the UK, and is bound to provoke alarm among arms control experts and campaigners.
And crucially, they noted this:
Under the plan, the UK will buy 12 of the F-35A jets, which are capable of carrying conventional munitions and also the US B61-12 gravity bomb, a variant of which has the explosive power of more than three times the weapon dropped on Hiroshima.
Link those paragraphs together, and what is clear is that we're paying £1.2 billion for the privilege of acting as couriers for US nuclear weapons.
We won't control them.
We can't fire them.
We just deliver them.
I then wrote this as a result:
And if you don't get that message, the Dutch NATO General secretary referred to Trump as Daddy yesterday in one of the most sickening moments in international 'diplomacy' ever.
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For you he’s a nobody, but I lived under Rutte’s abysmal governments.
The only backbone this slimey **** ever showed was in lying to Parliament as PM.
4 times.
His infamous quote, that has entered common parlance as meaning to lie, is
“I have no active memory of saying that”
I wrote this in response to Viceroy Murray’s nuclear conversion. https://dearscotland.substack.com/p/the-viceroys-road-to-damascus-nuclear
The UK’s nuclear ‘deterrent’ is well and truly controlled by the US:
Most don’t know that in July 2024, Labour amended the 1958 Mutual Defence Agreement (MDA), a treaty under which the US provides the UK with nuclear weapons material and expertise without which Trident couldn’t function. Officials deleted a long-standing sunset clause that required Parliament to renew the agreement every ten years. The UK’s nuclear arsenal is now permanently dependent upon the US, making a mockery of the UK government claim that its nuclear weapons are “operationally independent.”
Slightly relevant to this, and more than slightly shocking, is this post from Craig Murray:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2025/06/dystopia-uk-genocidal-raf-squadron-targeted-by-palestine-action-is-owned-by-a-hedge-fund-and-leased-by-the-raf/
Now I understand why Rachel Reeves’ outrage over Palestine Action’s vandalism was at least in part because they targeted “privately owned assets”, which seemed an odd thing to say at the time.
“To cause damage to military assets, but also to cause such damage to privately owned assets, it is unacceptable whatever your views are on what’s happening in the Middle East,” she said ahead of Cooper’s statement.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g83l33wdeo
This has been known about since 2000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Strategic_Tanker_Aircraft
Daddy? The word is too cuddly, has too many nicer connotations.
Trump is a bully and a thug.
The posters are great.
“Trump is a bully and a thug.”
You forgot to add “incompetent”.
Trump is an incompetent bully and a thug.
I fixed it for you!
Sorry Tampa. Trump is not an incompetent bully, he is quite good at it. He is incompetent, a buly and a thug 😉
I am not sure you have that right.
Pilgrim Slight Return says: Daddy? The word is too cuddly, has too many nicer connotations.
It’s not some random thing, it’s very important to understanding Trump and his appeal
Gil Duran : https://www.theframelab.org/trumps-maga-party-goes-full-strict-daddy/
George lakoff : https://george-lakoff.com/2016/03/02/why-trump/
but we could stick with ‘Strict father’ which is less cuddly. I guess “daddy” has started being used instead because it seemed demeaning but you’re right that it can sound cuddly too.
£1.2-billion looks like protection money to me, paid to the World’s premier gangster.
From the i newspaper today:-
“New nuclear-capable F-35A jets can’t be refuelled by RAF air tankers.”
But who will control the arm-weapons switch – US President/General, a US billionaire, AI, a hacker or Mr Starmer?
Our tankers are a private finance initiative, unbelievably.
another political leader who’s wealth will no doubt significantly increase upon leaving office, that tells me everything i need to know about these people.
Anyone remember ITV wrestling, “World of Sport” with big Daddy (real name, Shirley Crabtree),
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Daddy_(wrestler)
Giant Haystacks, Jackie Pallo and one “face” wrestler, whose name I can’t remember?
It was like watching a very carefully choreographed, carefully rehearsed and fairly brutal ballet performance.
Seems a good match for King Daddy Donald.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Big_Daddy,_circa_1983.jpg
🙂