Posted on 06/11/2026 5:57:32 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
British Defense Minister John Healey resigned on Thursday amid a dispute over military spending, accusing Prime Minister Keir Starmer of failing to commit the government resources needed to defend the country at a time of heightened threat.
The unexpected resignation, accompanied by a scathing public letter, compounds the pressure on Starmer when he is facing a likely leadership challenge and exposes the crisis at the heart of government - how it can ramp up defense spending when there is no money to spare.
Britain's defense and finance ministries have been locked in talks for months over how to meet rising demands to increase military spending, delaying the publication of Britain's Defense Investment Plan, which was expected last year.
Military leaders have stressed that the plan is needed to meet the rising threat level at a time of frequent Russian incursions into British waters, but the government is already struggling to reduce debt while the overall tax burden is at its highest level in decades.
The high-profile resignation comes as Starmer struggles to hold onto power, after Wes Streeting resigned as health minister in May and as another challenger, Andy Burnham, attempts to return to frontline politics to launch a leadership bid.
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Russia is not a threat to the UK. Even if Putin regards the UK as a threat to Russia, he sits and laughs as he watches the UK destroy itself.
Russia isn’t the military threat. Argentina is. If Trump so much as hints approval, the Malvinas are gone. Argentina will likely remove the inhabitants, who despise the Argentines.
The social threat of the Muslim population probably can’t be solved at this point. The white Brits are in the position of the white South Africans. Perhaps Trump will take in refugees from white Brittain.
They're Socialists. So the answer is no because they'll vote Democrat which will turn this whole country into California.
We'll take Tommy Robinson. But nobody else.
No. They would not be refugees they voted for this crap. Refugees typically are from a totalitarian state where they have no rights nor protection. The Brits chose this path.
True......the US was neutral during the first Falklands War,,,,, but the ‘special relationship’ was strong then.
no dough to get even a single submarine ocean-ready nor any other blue-sea boat out-of-dock except for a single destroyer, HMS Dragon ... how pathetic that the country that built a navy that ruled the seven seas 200 years ago now has only a SINGLE blue-sea boat ... that’s what a tsunami of invading ignorant antithetical peasants plus 80 years of socialism does to a country ...
Defence Secretary wants Union Jack on every Barrow submarine
...Defence Secretary John Healey says he wants a “bloody Union Jack” on top of every missile submarine made in Barrow...
“Russia is not a threat to the UK. Even if Putin regards the UK as a threat to Russia, he sits and laughs as he watches the UK destroy itself.”
I don’t know how many times Putin and (and other Russian leaders) has told Europe to close their damn borders (definitely a lot), but European leaders know better...
I suspect that Russia would be a lot happier with a bunch of self-immolating Whites in Europe, than a radicalized and very dangerous caliphate.
“True......the US was neutral during the first Falklands War”
Just as we’re ‘neutral’ during the Ukraine War. We were helping the UK quite a bit during the Falklands, obviously.
We’re giving Ukraine a lot of help, under the table.
Just as we were giving the Brits a lot of help, even before Lend-Lease.
We do not need to spend more money on bombs and bullets.
We need to spend more on housing, schools and our NHS instead.
A roof over your head. Enough food to feed your children. A public health service you can rely on in your time of need.
That is what real security means.— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) June 11, 2026
VERY SLOW FUNERAL OCCURRING FOR THE UK.
The UK defence secretary has resigned, hitting out at @Keir_Starmer as an utter failure who won't put a penny towards defending the United Kingdom.
Well over £2bn a year goes on housing invaders in hotels.
£15bn on welfare for them. pic.twitter.com/srWxy8C2It— Tommy Robinson 🇬🇧 (@TRobinsonNewEra) June 11, 2026
Healey wanted to spend 5,000 pounds per year on defense but Starmer wants to spend only 1,000 pounds per year?
Why woud a communist as a PM wants to increase money for defense when he already close to his objective to destroy this imperialist capitalist country?
ITV News
Two ministers resign over defence spending in major blow to Starmer’s leadership
Dan Jarvis has been appointed as the new defence secretary following John Healey’s resignation earlier on Thursday in a dispute over military funding.
His resignation was shortly followed by that of his Parliamentary Private Secretary, Pamela Nash, and Armed Forces Minister Al Carns, the latter of whom laid into the government more broadly, saying: “The machinery of government itself has been left to decay”.
A former soldier, Jarvis was first elected as an MP in 2011 and held a variety of shadow front bench roles before serving on the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy in 2017.
In 2018, he was elected as the first Mayor of South Yorkshire, and after leaving the mayoralty, he was appointed Shadow Security Minister in September 2023.
In a statement released after Jarvis’ appointment, Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said he was pleased to make the appointment, as the government works to “meet the growing threats facing our country.”
He wrote: “My first duty is to keep the British people safe, and I will always do what is necessary to protect our national security.
“I am pleased to appoint Dan Jarvis as Defence Secretary as we strengthen our armed forces and meet the growing threats facing our country.
“This Labour government is delivering the largest sustained increase in defence spending since the Cold War.
“In a dangerous and volatile world, we will give our armed forces the capabilities they need to defend Britain and keep our nation secure.”
Healey resigned after a row with the prime minister over military spending, accusing the PM of making the country “less safe”.
He wrote to Sir Keir Starmer to resign from the position with “great regret and reluctance”, citing disagreements about defence spending ahead of the release of the delayed Defence Investment Plan (DIP).
Healey said the prime minister has “been unable... to commit the resources that the nation needs to defend the country” and that he has “no other option” but to resign.
He added: “I am being forced to make a decision that would reduce the readiness of our Forces and increase the risk to personnel on operations, and could make the country less safe.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVIfEZH89eY
But I wonder if Carns might have another reason for getting out...
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