25 August 2021
I picked up the Star at the Minsterley Show on Saturday and enjoyed reading your column. Some readers will take it seriously and believe every word as gospel!
Boris Johnson had months to persuade Biden (not to pull out of Afghanistan). Yet, you wrote, he "could do nothing about it." I don't think he even tried in NATO to get them to think again, did he?
Many readers will believe 7% instead of 2% would have made all the difference in Afghanistan and given us victory instead of defeat.
Many readers will think we can go marching into any old poor and defenceless country like Afghanistan, not just the actual four times since 1839 but forty times, especially if we maintain the overseas aid cut from 0.7% to 0.5% and up armaments expenditure from 2 to 7%.
You wrote about "defending our realm" and Britannia ruling the waves. Is this exactly what we are doing with our £3.5 billion aircraft carrier sailing the waters of the South China Sea, right now? You and your readers are thrilled with that. But what if China followed our example and sailed their warships in the North or Irish Seas or the English Channel? And, we are even getting a new £250 m 'Britannia' to further shock and awe the world with another vanity project to impress!
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