Stop Press: Mr Sunak was flying to Kiev as we went to press to give President Zelensky £2.5 billion of UK taxpayers’ money for more weapons.
The Bible says:
Prov 14:12 (cf 16:25) There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
We were about to celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace in December 2023 when four former UK defence secretaries urged Prime Minister Rishi Sunak to stop ‘dithering’, as they put it, over more UK funding for Ukraine’s war effort against Russia.
The Daily Telegraph reported their demand came on Christmas Eve.
How much has gone already?
The UK Government gave £2.3 billion pounds in 2022 and again in 2023 but has not yet announced how much will be sent in 2024.
Former Secretaries of State for Defence, Sir Michael Fallon, Ben Wallace, Dr Liam Fox and Sir Gavin Williamson are all demanding the British taxpayer stump up at least another £2.3 billion pounds. That’s forty pounds for every man, woman and child in the United Kingdom.
It’s enough money, as the BBC show here, to buy two and a half thousand MRI scanners or pay for four hundred thousand hip operations. The Government have already given twice as much as that already. But no-one asked British taxpayers if they wanted to pay that money. As usual, the elite have just decided it and imposed it on hard-pressed people.
More young men in coffins
The money will put more Ukrainian and Russian young men in coffins. The war-mongers think that makes them look tough. Three of them have even been pictured in military fatigues. Ben Wallace couldn’t keep out of them. Macho Gavin Williamson was pictured on a training course ‘breaking the ice’.
The man who started the idea of the UK fighting Russia to the last Ukranian, Boris Johnson, wore civies as he walked around in Kiev meeting Vlodomir Zelensky. But he too has been pictured in military garb.
It goes without saying that none of the four former defence secretaries nor Mr Johnson, nor Mr Sunak will actually go to the front line and put their own lives at risk.
A no-cost demand
The psalmist says:
Psalm 120:7 I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
In fact their demands for more weapons cost them nothing. Meanwhile, in the real world, the war in Ukraine is at a standstill. It’s advancing nowhere and still destroying lives and property on a daily basis. It’s killing young men, bereaving mothers and making widows of young women.
It is a tragedy, and the United Kingdom bears responsibility for advancing it and cheerleading for weaponry around Europe and in the Americas. The British Government does not care about the lives of British subjects. It is of course not their job to care, it is their job to protect. They may say it is not their job abroad to do either. Ukrainian, let alone Russian, lives do not matter to them. But when they deliberately put foreign lives at risk rather than seek peace, that invites judgment.
The Bible says:
1Pet 3:11 Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.
Follow the money
It all becomes clear when we follow the money. The UK’s billions are going to the arms manufacturers. What is little known is that politicians are constantly rubbing shoulders with them at lavish dinners.
According to Forces Watch, The arms manufacturers fund these gatherings under the ‘Armed Forces Parliamentary Scheme’.
Forces Watch say: ‘The scheme involves MPs or Peers spending at least 15 days in a year with either the Army, Navy or RAF, visiting both UK and overseas bases. The optics of dressing up as service personnel seems to appeal to a militarised parliamentary politics – more than 90 parliamentarians … graduated between 2014-2020.’
The AFPS then hold a ‘Graduation Dinner’. Clearly the aim is to ensure more MPs and Peers are sympathetic to the UK Armed Forces, to armaments and also to military action. Forces Watch say ‘over 50%’ of the ‘more than 90’ were Conservatives, which means just under 50% were not. Labour’s Toby Perkins and Liz Kendall even posted a picture of them posing in a tank at an arms fair. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has also appeared in military fatigues.
A time for peace
There may or may not have been a time for war, but this is surely the time to beat those swords into ploughshares. It is a time to do what the prophet Jeremiah said and build and plant. Please look at our Bible read points below.
Somewhere in the world, secret negotiations are going on. The Lord Jesus said
Matt 5:9 Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
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READ: Eccl 3:8b; Micah 4:3b (cf Isa 2:4); Jer 29:5
PRAY: Pray the Lord will bless the efforts of the peacemakers, convict our leaders of their own need of the Prince of Peace and bring this war to an end.
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