PM’s defence spending spree smacks of a bygone era

Sir, – So the Tories have decided to give the defence industry £24.1 billion of taxpayers’ money.

This is the biggest increase in 30 years.

The aid budget will be slashed to pay for it.

Yet again Tory priorities are giving money to the fatcats, the cronies and the donors at the expense of those in most need.

This profligacy is being done on the same day that warnings are being issued that the UK economy faces the worst contraction in 300 years.

Johnson laughably claimed he is doing this to keep “the public safe”.

This is the kind of imperial fantasy that the Tories have of a post-Brexit return to the days of Empire.

Britannia once again ruling the waves.

This is blather. Under Johnson the UK has become a pariah and a laughing stock.

Scotland now has an opportunity to leave.

What is unforgivable is that Nicola Sturgeon and her gang have given Johnson a veto on when any referendum can be called.

The SNP leadership are trying to turn the independence movement away from radicalism. The voices they want to hear are; pro-Nato, pro-banker, prolandlord, pro-hunting and prolandowner.

All to be “respectable”. These are not the voices that will win independence.

The time for direct action is almost here.

Alan Hinnrichs. Gillespie Terrace, Dundee.