Poland’s Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Radosław ‘Radek’ Sikorski speaks to Newsnight about the impact of Ukraine’s ongoing offensives into Russian controlled territory, why the UK needs to spend more on defence and not welfare and why Sir Keir Starmer could make a good Foreign Secretary. Interview by Lucy Hockings.
June 30, 2026
Cartoon from the Telegraph:
“You are spending £65 billion on defence and £365 billion on welfare.”
Ludicrous but true. The socialist welfare state is just a Labour Ponzi and always has been.
Britain could easily double its defence budget. However, it probably needs even more than that.
The reason is that we spend £15 billion/yr on the sub-launched Trident strategic nuclear system. The subs are ours but Trident is US supplied.
The US is hostile to Ukraine and getting hostile to the UK. A VanZkov presidency would make things even worse.
And we are only a heartbeat away from that.
We need to urgently restore our independent strategic deterrent and once again produce our own tactical nukes.
I’d estimate a cost of £100 billion for that. And that’s before we’ve doubled the army, navy and Air Force.
Benefits moochers should be told to fuck off.
It was Sikorski btw who revealed putler’s offer to carve up Ukraine between them :
“Russian President Vladimir Putin allegedly tried to tempt Poland into invading Ukraine with the goal of partitioning the country in 2013, former Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski told Ben Judah in an article in Politico.”
https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-offered-to-partition-ukraine-with-poland-2014-10
Sikorski, whose wife is Anne Applebaum, is pro-Ukraine (and pro-UK), but the fascists; led by Nawrocki, are stirring up anti-Ukraine hate once again.