What's best for Britain - Kill or Cure?

FRAGINAL-NOYPI

Health care must be financed instead of spending millions for missilles. Prioritize the health of the people rather than the useless nuclear warheads.

Roxy

I'm really cross with Labour for pursuing Trident, after years against it in opposition. I agree that healthcare, education and decent social housing should be priorities (and would produce a society in which unrest and division were reduced) and I don't hold with their views that a deterrent is necessary. If we sorted out the world's problems (poverty, discord, alienation) we wouldn't need these weapons of mass destruction - which after all, are designed never to be needed. Madness.

loathsomedog

The NHS can run perfectly well on the money it has. It's been mis-managed since Thatcher introduced business management. She was advised by American war strategists to implement war like business strategy to public services as well as her large scale capitalist privatisation policy.

Unfortunately, and quite obviously, the NHS isn't really like a war and instead of improving the thing, all she managed to do was introduce very expensive managers with no experience in medicine. The current Labour clowns are just flailing and spinning out P.R. yarns about targets being met.

MRSA, a result of mis-managed dirty hospitals, kills over 1000 people a year. If Al-Quaeda killed 1000 UK citizens every year, how much would the government spend on weapons then?

Stop Trident now.
We have no-one left to bomb.

nativexile

Cure. But it would be good to see the results of the latest UK paranoia. We still see ourselves important enough to buy such hardware. Will it deter Abdul from Wolverhampton, or some person who was born Jerry Smith in Leeds, who decided to read the Koran and become Waseem?
Roxy - Mr. Blair was helped by the Tories to win the argument, but we're told it's not over yet.
Talking of war, other than Trident - people who are wounded in the Eastern 'conflict' now wonder if the NHS will even consider looking at them upon arrival.

my priorities as a Brit, survive the week at work without killing someone and get wasted and laid at the weekend.

cassidy

Its obvious what the biggest majority of Brits want and it isn't spending billions on Trident nuclear subs

BeachBum

Britain and the USA both have a similar flaw of not recognizing proper priorities. I am of the belief that a healthy nation is a prosperous one. Not to mention, taking care of your citizens is simply the humane thing to do...

Barbara Doll to you

Tridents is for national insecurity. NHS is only for sick individuals. What's their priority?

claire_trus1

whats the point in having more nuclear weapons it only takes one to ruin a country. why dont the fat cats that sit on there arses all day listen to the people of this county n sort out the nhs instead of spending loads on missiles and the stupid Olympic games which by the looks is gonna cost more than has ever been put into the nhs

rebel

thank god there are still a few real,sane,sensible people left.

g.m

Not kill but sadly to late for cure !!!!!! to many have got there feet in now and make sure things will never be the same !!!! im off out of it as soon as possible , its sad but true

dsclimb1

without defence we would all speaking french or german by now and that is just off the last 2 centuries.

No one can tell what will change in the next 50years, so we should have a credibal defence. When the next global war kicks off fighting over gas, water, food, shade :-), britain will be glad we have decent deterent, the peace camps won't save you, bit an army camp might, or a navy submarine many miles away, threatening Shanghia.

gorglin

They should be security first, housing next then food security
and employment, in that order......................................

Saadi

Cure ......... Cure ................. Cure.......

mowhokman

keep nhs as we dont want to go down the same road as the yanks. keep trident as it keeps our freedom. pull out of the east and let god sort them out. stop immigration from easter conutries.

grumpyoldman

The NHS is costing too much due to too much "managing" by incompetants! Billions have been poured into it's coffers without any improvement in performance.We need to make it more efficient and use the money to pay the real people i.e. Nurses and Doctors. Having said that we still need to protect ourselves from any aggressor, whoever and wherever they may be,so we need to maintain a credible defence force.As for the wars in the Middle East they were none of our business and we should not have got involved in them! The Eurofighter is not necessarily a pile of junk but is the result of collaboration between a number of countries with very different requirements and priorities and is therefore not the ideal aircraft for any of it's roles.Remember, if you design a horse by committee you end up with a camel! The Eurofighter is therefore a Jack of all trades and probably Master of none.

qleophathyr

michael w

Prevention is the answer, surely. Many billions have already been found for the NHS and still it struggles. Trident is necessary for now and its replacement is also necessary for now. What happens as this century draws to a close may change that priority. And the Eurofighter can hardly be described in your terms, unless you helped build it and know something I don't. As for pointless Middle Eastern wars, I agree but it's not so long ago that Iran was at war with Iraq, Iraq invaded Kuwait and was on the point of taking on Saudi Arabia. These wars had nothing to do with our defence expenditure at the time.

JAY

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jes1brian

cure always.s they have let the Moran,s out of the nut house.and now they are running it.is there any hope for us.

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