John Redwood: Labour weakened our national security long before the Iran war
Equal justice apparently isn't equal anymore.
Lord Redwood is former MP for Wokingham and a former Secretary of State for Wales.
The government has spent its first one year eight months undermining our national security, just in time for a war.
This government of international lawyers, by international lawyers for international lawyers has used its own skewed and incompetent interpretations of human rights, net zero, post-colonial settlements and other international treaties to sell us out and weaken our security. When in doubt they argue the foreigner’s corner.
It has gone for the most extreme version of net zero policy. This makes us more energy dependent on Europe. The high energy prices it induces are leading to closures of refineries, petrochemical works, fertiliser production, steel blast furnaces, and many other energy intensive plants. Our own oil has to languish in the ground whilst we pay more for imports that come in on diesel tankers. The agricultural policy makes us ever more dependent on imported food.
If the government knew our history, they would know that we have always been invaded by continental European enemies . The Romans from Italy succeeded in 55 BC, the Nordic Vikings in the post Roman occupation, the French Normans in 1066 and the Netherlands in 1688. The Germans failed twice in the twentieth century, The French failed around 1800, the Spanish failed in 1588.
Our defences have relied on a strong navy and more recently on sea power buttressed by air power. The country suffered badly in the two world wars of the last century from submarine attacks on shipping making it difficult to supply food and munitions from abroad. Dig for victory, home shipyards, UK chemicals for explosives and home produced steel for weapons were all crucial to survival. At peak production in 1943 the UK made 26,000 warplanes in UK factories. We couldn’t make 24 today.
This government is so keen on reducing UK CO 2 output it overlooks the fact that most of its food, energy and industrial policies increase world CO 2 by making us more import dependent. After years in the Common Agricultural policy which drove down our home produced food, they are now giving grant and permits to wild our farms or get them to move to solar panels. Apparently, we need to shift farms out of farming or tax them to close them down. We currently rely heavily on imports for steel, chemicals and weapons.
Who would supply those if our seas were prey to the enemy or if our European suppliers were occupied? We would not be able to outlive a submarine blockade of our trade.
Over the last week against the background of evidence of the evil intent of Iran and its allies, the government has moved to give away powers over Gibraltar and to pay money to Spain on top of the give aways. Gibraltar is our …
Equal justice apparently isn't equal anymore.
Lord Redwood is former MP for Wokingham and a former Secretary of State for Wales.
The government has spent its first one year eight months undermining our national security, just in time for a war.
This government of international lawyers, by international lawyers for international lawyers has used its own skewed and incompetent interpretations of human rights, net zero, post-colonial settlements and other international treaties to sell us out and weaken our security. When in doubt they argue the foreigner’s corner.
It has gone for the most extreme version of net zero policy. This makes us more energy dependent on Europe. The high energy prices it induces are leading to closures of refineries, petrochemical works, fertiliser production, steel blast furnaces, and many other energy intensive plants. Our own oil has to languish in the ground whilst we pay more for imports that come in on diesel tankers. The agricultural policy makes us ever more dependent on imported food.
If the government knew our history, they would know that we have always been invaded by continental European enemies . The Romans from Italy succeeded in 55 BC, the Nordic Vikings in the post Roman occupation, the French Normans in 1066 and the Netherlands in 1688. The Germans failed twice in the twentieth century, The French failed around 1800, the Spanish failed in 1588.
Our defences have relied on a strong navy and more recently on sea power buttressed by air power. The country suffered badly in the two world wars of the last century from submarine attacks on shipping making it difficult to supply food and munitions from abroad. Dig for victory, home shipyards, UK chemicals for explosives and home produced steel for weapons were all crucial to survival. At peak production in 1943 the UK made 26,000 warplanes in UK factories. We couldn’t make 24 today.
This government is so keen on reducing UK CO 2 output it overlooks the fact that most of its food, energy and industrial policies increase world CO 2 by making us more import dependent. After years in the Common Agricultural policy which drove down our home produced food, they are now giving grant and permits to wild our farms or get them to move to solar panels. Apparently, we need to shift farms out of farming or tax them to close them down. We currently rely heavily on imports for steel, chemicals and weapons.
Who would supply those if our seas were prey to the enemy or if our European suppliers were occupied? We would not be able to outlive a submarine blockade of our trade.
Over the last week against the background of evidence of the evil intent of Iran and its allies, the government has moved to give away powers over Gibraltar and to pay money to Spain on top of the give aways. Gibraltar is our …
John Redwood: Labour weakened our national security long before the Iran war
Equal justice apparently isn't equal anymore.
Lord Redwood is former MP for Wokingham and a former Secretary of State for Wales.
The government has spent its first one year eight months undermining our national security, just in time for a war.
This government of international lawyers, by international lawyers for international lawyers has used its own skewed and incompetent interpretations of human rights, net zero, post-colonial settlements and other international treaties to sell us out and weaken our security. When in doubt they argue the foreigner’s corner.
It has gone for the most extreme version of net zero policy. This makes us more energy dependent on Europe. The high energy prices it induces are leading to closures of refineries, petrochemical works, fertiliser production, steel blast furnaces, and many other energy intensive plants. Our own oil has to languish in the ground whilst we pay more for imports that come in on diesel tankers. The agricultural policy makes us ever more dependent on imported food.
If the government knew our history, they would know that we have always been invaded by continental European enemies . The Romans from Italy succeeded in 55 BC, the Nordic Vikings in the post Roman occupation, the French Normans in 1066 and the Netherlands in 1688. The Germans failed twice in the twentieth century, The French failed around 1800, the Spanish failed in 1588.
Our defences have relied on a strong navy and more recently on sea power buttressed by air power. The country suffered badly in the two world wars of the last century from submarine attacks on shipping making it difficult to supply food and munitions from abroad. Dig for victory, home shipyards, UK chemicals for explosives and home produced steel for weapons were all crucial to survival. At peak production in 1943 the UK made 26,000 warplanes in UK factories. We couldn’t make 24 today.
This government is so keen on reducing UK CO 2 output it overlooks the fact that most of its food, energy and industrial policies increase world CO 2 by making us more import dependent. After years in the Common Agricultural policy which drove down our home produced food, they are now giving grant and permits to wild our farms or get them to move to solar panels. Apparently, we need to shift farms out of farming or tax them to close them down. We currently rely heavily on imports for steel, chemicals and weapons.
Who would supply those if our seas were prey to the enemy or if our European suppliers were occupied? We would not be able to outlive a submarine blockade of our trade.
Over the last week against the background of evidence of the evil intent of Iran and its allies, the government has moved to give away powers over Gibraltar and to pay money to Spain on top of the give aways. Gibraltar is our …
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