#HealthcareNotWarfare: No Increase in Military Spending

Prime Minister Boris Johnson

In the face of the greatest crisis since the Second World War, Boris Johnson has chosen to prioritise military spending over the biggest threat to safety and security for people in Britain right now, which is undoubtedly COVID-19.

Even during a pandemic Johnson says defence should come first but this extra money will be spent increasing Britain's offensive capacity, not protecting the population. We believe the effort to save people's lives and care for people in a crisis should have priority over new technologies of mass killing.

To: Prime Minister Boris Johnson
From: [Your Name]

I am writing to protest your recent drastic increase in military spending. It is unconscionable that the military should get its biggest spending increase in 30 years at a time when the UK's faces its gravest crisis since the Second World War. The effort to save people's lives and care for people in a crisis should have priority over new technologies of mass killing.

The £16.5 billion increase means that the UK is by far and away Europe's biggest military spender at a time when it has the highest COVID-19 death toll across the continent due to the government's pitiful response.

With a crisis in social care and hospitals cancelling essential operations due to under-funding our government must prioritise the health of the population over increases to our military's offensive capacity.

I urge you to halt this ludicrous increase in military spending and invest in the public services this country so desperately relies on.