EU deal on Ukraine loan could boost UK if it agrees to help pay costs
British firms could get more opportunities to supply defence equipment to Kyiv if agreement can be reached
If UK taxpayers send moeny to Ukraine then some small part of that will come back to UK capitalists.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper just to give the capitalists a cheque directly?
That applies to a lot of things.
If the aim is to help Ukraine then surely they should buy whatever is best?
Otherwise how are they different from Trump?
I do hope if Macron ever gets ill he refuses to take any medicines not developed in the EU.
No! We love giving money for nothing to our Black Broadcasting Corporation because they’re lovely and nice, but the evil capitalists can crawl away and die. We don’t need capitalists or farmers, we just need far right racist taxpayers to do their duty and support the rest of the world. Admittedly, Ukrainians aren’t especially black or brown but they do a nice line in male models, which counts as diversity…
On the subject of male models the haste to drag the Chagos giveaway over the line is now palpable. Almost as if there was concern about further disclosures.
Fortunately it’s now looking like that deal might be as thoroughly buggered as a Ukrainian rent boy:
https://order-order.com/2026/02/05/chagos-bill-pulled-again-as-starmers-surrender-deal-falters/
“will not return the Bill before the February recess” – do we think Starmer and Hermer will last that long in office?
The military-industrial-financial-media-politcal complex.
AKA the top 10% of society (in terms of power not virtue) who need removing from power and being sent to scrub toilets for the rest of their lives.
Much the same as my proposal for ‘foreign aid’ – give the money directly to Switzerland’s banking system and cut out the middle-man!
I’d prefer to give it to Bjørn Lomborg at the Copenhagen Consensus.
Actually, I’d just give it all to me!!!!!
Wouldn’t it be cheaper just to give the capitalists a cheque directly?
The Keynesian multiplier might make the subsidy option cheaper than the gift. The cheapest option is to do neither.
The trick is to give money which is spent on weapons that we sell. The buyer smugly congratulates themselves on how thay’re got the stuff really cheaply, but over the following years the unsubsidised cost of spares and maintenance turns a profit. A bit like selling a printer at a loss and then making all your money from selling ink – just on a much bigger scale.