Starmer Inks $11B Fighter Jet Deal While UK Austerity Bites
Al-Monitor reports Turkey's Erdogan and UK's Starmer inked an $11 billion Eurofighter deal in Ankara. The headline glosses over the optics: Starmer, whose party purports to represent the common British person, is brokering massive weapons contracts. This is the same UK that recently approved licenses for arms sales to Israel, even as international bodies raise alarms about potential human rights
violations and what many deem war crimes in Gaza. (Amnesty International has repeatedly documented such sales and their impact). One might wonder about the timing, given the ongoing humanitarian crises linked to military conflicts globally. Instead of focusing on vital domestic needs or championing peace, a potential future PM is selling tools of war. It appears some political leaders find it
easier to arm nations than to mend their own. The working class can wait; global arms manufacturers, apparently, cannot.