No compromise over Trident

OF ALL THE DECISIONS Ed Milliband says he will take if he becomes prime minister; perhaps the scariest would be the one he would be drawn into making under duress: the one he would be forced to make if he wished to continue as prime minister – and we all know from the episode with his brother when Ed wanted to lead the Labour Party what entailed. He will do anything to first of all gain power, and then to hold on to it. Ed is a Marxist via Machiavelli (a truly amoral combination). He will willingly betray all and sundry to advance himself in politics. He comes from a political family; and he is his father's progeny in the ideological sense of the word - he is a Marxist prince.

                Michael Fallon, the Defence Secretary, has launched (sic) an attack on Ed over our Trident submarines, and has doubted Ed could be trusted to keep them, and not barter them away or compromise their strength through an alliance with the SNP. Fallon has accused Milliband of repeating the same course of action against his nation as he took against his brother to become leader of his party; and will continue to do so to remain in power as a prime minister.

                Fallon used the phrase "stabbed in the back" to describe the way Ed treated his brother. This has brought an imbecilic response from the Guardian's Left wing infant phenomenon; and considered a L'Enfant Terrible by the Right: Owen Jones, who has taken to twitter to describe Fallon's use of the metaphor of stabbing in the back thus; "… [Fallon's] metaphor is deeply sinister. It is a classic anti-Semitic trope".

                Quite rightly the Left's infant phenomenon has been generally ridiculed for his accusation that in some way Michael Fallon is anti-Semitic; it only goes to show to what lengths the lexicon of political correctness is prepared to go to mould language to its will; and to the lengths they are prepared to go to protect the PC idiom.

                Michael Fallon is not anti-Semitic because some twerp in his ideological infancy condemns him as such. I doubt if even the paper he rights for; yes, you have guessed it - the Guardian; which supports his wretched tweet is in agreement.

                Perhaps Polly Toynbee should take Owen under her wing and invite him this summer to join her in her retreat on the Algarve, to hang out; where he can learn from the mistress of liberal conceit and hypocrisy how to avoid such idiocy of the kind he displayed against Michael

MICHAEL FALLON IS NOT anti-Semitic - but he is a hypocrite. He seeks to warn the nation of the dangers of weakening our nuclear defences, and the threat it puts upon our nation's security (and he is right to do so).

                As our Secretary of Defence, he is also right in his rhetoric when it comes to Trident. But Trident is the nuclear option, the final option we may sooner or later be forced to deploy (although we will need a new and less feeble set politicians from all parties prepared ever to deploy it under any set of circumstances , including a first strike form our enemy). But such an option will become the first option of if our armed forces do not have sufficient finances to provide our nation with conventional forms of defence meant to prevent nuclear deployment from ever happening in the first place.

                The MoD represents to all the politicians from whatever of the three main parties; a constant source of easy pickings when it comes to having to cut back on the nation's finances. No party stands up for our nation's defences on such a scale as they do the NHS. The MoD's budget has always been the first to be pared down when it comes to politicians seeking to reduce public spending; and the process will continue under whatsoever government  (coalition or not) that comes to power – and if the Tories win further cuts will follow (some reports have said that our army will be reduced to 50,000).

                Fallon, as defence secretary, knows what is needed in matters of this nation's conventional defence.  It is the lack of such a sufficiency of defence spending we now face thanks to Fallon that may lead to what should be the unnecessary deployment of nuclear weapons. The more you scale back conventional forms of defence the quicker you hasten the use of nuclear weaponry; because you begin to rely upon them as the main option in the hope of deterring your enemies. Eventually, the more we, as a nation, pare down our conventional forces, the more we will rely upon the nuclear option to 'safe-guard' our nation. And what if Ed is elected?

                Not only will he match the further cuts to our defences that the Tories have promised, but will also have the SNP baring down on him get rid of Trident. Angela Sturgeon has said that it is her party's intention to make the vanquishing of Trident, her red-line. So unless she turns out to be another Obama with her talk of red-lines, then what will be left of our nation's defences will be further imperilled (perhaps fatally so) if either Labour or the Tories are given a majority – but, has as seems likely, because of the SNP, Milliband becomes prime minister, in either a formal or informal setting (back-room deals), then chaos can be expected: the tolerance of the English will once be tested to ever greater limits.