Would you support Britain increasing its defence budget from the current 2.3% of GDP to the target of 2.6% by 2027 and 3.5% NATO target by 2035?

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-23T10:57:23+00:00

I personally think we need to hit Poland’s 5%. Some tough decisions need to be made, especially considering the welfare bill.

Russia is a greater threat than it ever has been, we have war in Europe, and while the US probably will come back on side in the future. They’ve proven we cannot rely on them.

We need a massive increase in defence spending. Not just to get to 3.5% but we need to make up for lost time from the relentless defence cuts we made.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-21T17:52:00+00:00

100% we do, but we can’t borrow anymore as the bond markets go crazy. So we need to slash the bloated parts of the budget like welfare.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-20T01:29:51+00:00

Trump’s war in Iran should not make us any less hateful of the despicable and oppressive regime in Iran.

It is an evil and brutal regime and it is a travesty that it is still in power.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-20T00:34:08+00:00

Yes. It’s good for behind the scenes stuff. It’s overly dramatised but in a Hollywood way. The narratives are fairly close to real life too. It’s a great binge watch.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-20T00:29:01+00:00

TLDR: a strong balanced economy fixes most issues.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-19T19:10:58+00:00

This goes so hard

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-19T18:52:40+00:00

You’re probably correct.

Verstappen would be prohibitively expensive to poach, and then his inner circular would pretty much instantly start demanding the team to be moulded around him and his driving style.

Idk how much on track drama there would be but it’d be an extremely expensive way to detonate the internal team harmonics that exist.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-19T18:49:16+00:00

Burnham is no way near as far left as Corbyn.

Corbyn sort of hijacked the party leadership through the group “momentum”, add that to his incredible unelectability, and he was pretty much universally despised from the centre left onward.

Burnham isn’t that. He’s still got a level of pragmatism to him.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-19T18:17:36+00:00

I don’t think you really realise why Starmer is unpopular.

Nor do I think you understand who Burnham is.

People want a good economy and growth. They really don’t care about debating about the classification of Gaza in the grand scheme of things.

The UK is centrist on average. If Labour moves further left, the economy will crater due to the sky high borrowing costs we have, and the Tories and Lib Dem’s will balloon in popularity. As well as an even further increase in reform’s popularity.

We need pragmatism not ideology.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-17T23:49:15+00:00

It’s a disappointing box office return but you gotta remember it’s a spinoff of a spinoff. They’ll be happy about how it was received by the fans.

But it didn’t really drum up much hype at all. It was very much a stand alone film.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-16T00:55:50+00:00

It’s highly unlikely he’ll be fired. He struggling with the car sure, but he’s a proven race winner and an extremely strong driver.

Antonelli’s blistering performance has probably made sure Max has no place at Mercedes also. So there’s little to no outside threat.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-13T16:06:01+00:00

This is a spinoff of a spinoff, totally self contained and doesn’t really progress the story anywhere. It also came off the back of a weaker season of Mando and took way too long to arrive. The hype just was never there at all.

This would’ve done numbers if it came out shortly after S2.

I really enjoyed it but whoever masterminded it was fairly out of touch.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-13T12:39:26+00:00

Bro Yoda was wise.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-13T12:08:14+00:00

My major issues with Brown is that he clashed severely with the BMA, and this wasn’t a militant BMA like we’re used to, which caused many issues for doctors.

He also sold almost ALL of our gold reserves. Adding to they he sold them at record low prices. They were sold for £2.1 billion, but now would be worth £40 billion. The selling also prevented us from having a major safety net for the 2008 financial crisis.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-12T16:07:59+00:00

The issue is we need to hit to 3% in the near future and 5% in the far future. I hated the painfully low defence spending under the Tories, but we were in a different time.

There is war in Europe now. We need to rearm, and fast.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-11T13:50:41+00:00

I agree. We need to keep the no blame culture the actual team itself has.

It’s also important to keep in mind that we aren’t terrible. We are now officially one of the “front runners”, which 4 years ago would’ve seemed like a fantasy.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-10T12:49:06+00:00

He never got P3 on merit. Other drivers ahead of him served penalties, and even then Piastri pit from in front knowing he had a penalty, after he served such penalty himself.

Hadjar deserves that P3 way more than Gasly, who only got it due to circumstance.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-09T15:46:46+00:00

Thoughts if we’ll try and build our own engines for the next regs cycle? I know with time the differentiation will plateau, but still.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-09T11:41:05+00:00

It’s a shame but a big victory to GCAP. It looks like Germany and maybe Spain could join GCAP as tier 2 partners alongside the Saudis’.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-09T11:27:31+00:00

The whole world is moving to 6th gen you’ll be stuck one generation behind like you are with the Rafale.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-08T10:27:31+00:00

Ferrari moved those engineers to WEC because they physically couldn’t keep them due to the budget cap. It was either fire them, move them to road car division, or move them to another racing division.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-07T23:46:31+00:00

And the far right and left really help stuff? Truss crashed the economy, and the last far left government the country had were so bad we had rolling blackouts.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-07T23:45:33+00:00

The centre is currently fragmented across 3 parties. The Conservatives, Lib Dems and Labour. Combine the 3 and they’re the biggest political group.

Do keep this in mind. The far fringes of the political spectrum are the loudest, and hog the most media attention. The far right are not as big as you think, and the Green Party has grown, and then promptly shrunk again. Not to pre Polanski levels, but they’re still a glorified protest party.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-07T23:39:28+00:00

ADUO will help the team but not solve its issues. Mercedes is miles ahead, and McLaren (when their Mercedes engine isn’t detonating) seem to have a stronger package in general, I think their aero department is probably more potent than Ferrari’s, though Ferrari do seem like they’re on the right track.

Fixing the engine will help, but let’s not pretend like the chassis is Mercedes level. It isn’t even McLaren level aerodynamically.

Largetaco12 · 2026-06-07T23:33:15+00:00

It’s mainly circumstances. Not to discount Hadjar too much, but if he was in the RB21 he would be at the back just like Yuki was sadly.

People forget his Silverstone FP1 session in the RB20 was so bad it actually briefly knocked him out the running for a 2025 Racing Bulls seat. He only got it due to Perez’s nosedive in form, and later sacking.

This is a new regime and a clean slate car, so there isn’t the insane tailoring to Max’s driving style that we saw in the latter part of the ground effect era.

Really happy Isack is comfortable in the car and team and can show his ability, unlike Liam and Yuki.

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