Britain bullied by United States

BULLIES quite often have a wee runty sycophantic pal with delusions of grandeur who runs errands for them. The UK is the United States’s runty wee pal in Nato. We now have a super-carrier, the first of two, but no planes to fly from them till our big pal lets us have some (“Mighty warship sails out of Rosyth”, The Herald, June

27). We all live on a huge static aircraft carrier; the floating kind are offensive not defensive weapons. We are building new atomic submarines yet we have no nuclear missiles to fire from them other than those our pal will rent us.

We already spend a greater percentage of our GDP on defence than any of our European Nato partners yet some want us to spend more on gunboats to impress the natives and guard the outposts of the Empire. Excellent idea; get Theresa May to shake that money-tree again as there is no fat left on the emaciated bodies of the NHS, social services or education system.

Perhaps we could use the £6 billion set aside to renovate the Palace of Westmonster or put plans for HS2 back in the cupboard. Did nobody listen to the coded warning of impending financial doom the Governor of the Bank of England just issued (“Pound soars as Carney hints at interest rate rise”, The Herald, June 29)?

David J Crawford,

Flat 3/3 131 Shuna Street, Glasgow.