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Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

50% of the budget? 50%??

Well you heard it here first folks; news flash! Corbyn has promised to spend £400 billion on Uni students. You've been reading too many tabloids again Brillo, you can't just make up ludicrous statistics and expect people to say "ehmegerd rly, how awful so much moneh!".

You could say "Doesn't the NHS need it more?" about every single piece of budget funding. Yes the NHS needs funding. That doesn't mean that there aren't also other important areas. In fact, there is ample evidence to suggest that a population with a generally higher level of education is likely to ease the burden on health services. Social deprivation massively increases the rate of chronic illness. Or in other words... More money being put into education DOES help the NHS.

And finally

Trident is not a nuclear defense system, it doesn't protect us from anything.

You do realise that the last nuclear bomb that was dropped, was dropped because there wasn't a threat of retaliation? And you do realise that we all want a World free of a nuclear threat? but the reality is, many of todays cultures have nukes, Pakistan have nukes, and that is the reason we are in Afghanistan.

The nuclear deterrent is the reason we had the Cold war and not World war III. And having a leader that say's they are not prepared to press the button, makes us weak with regards to countries and cultures that do have nuclear weapons and are prepared to use them against us. And it also sends out a message that we are all talk and no action.

I would love to be like the neutral countries of WW2 and not have to be bothered about world affairs and expect others to defend our neutrality, but the reality is that we are the historic model of Democracy that every notion of state Democracy around the world is based upon and consequently we have a responsibility to defend our ideology no matter what