Military Keynesianism

With millions starving througout the world, unemployment and homelessness on the increase in the West, tensions mounting in the middle east and the price of oil pushing the cost of everything up - what the country really needs is.....two more aircraft carriers! Going just for you for four billion pounds! Twenty times the money we promised to Africa three years ago and didn't get round to paying but hey don't look at that look at this - ten thousand jobs safe-guarded!! That's, ok, 400 000 pound each job and we could have spent it on oooo the NHS, solving the ten pence tax rate fiasco or giving knackered soldiers from Iraq a proper house to live in... . . .but we've got slender majorities to defend.

Sarah McCarthy-Fry is the Blairite MP for Porstmouth North, where these wretched, useless war-machines are to be built. She is the full on corrupt corporate cash hound - public school old tie network creepy slimely pole climber. The party needs dog's bodies like this and so the MoD wrangles the deal. If you can ram your nose up as far as it will go, you will be rewarded for it eventually. Though, given the national mood at the moment, the good people of Portsmouth will probably kick her out in 2010 anyway.

Still, four billion quid on two boats. I feel safer already. It's been done so that Britain can 'project its power in any part of the world' and - o no not this again - 'can punch above its weight'. It's just corruption - all military spending is.