RichardJMurphy, 
Just wait: politicians will be shaking the magic money tree very soon https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/15/just-wait-politicians-will-be-shaking-the-magic-money-tree-very-soon/. The scale of government spending, and what it is spent on, is always a matter of political choice. The problem is that military action is always deemed to be high priority and meeting need is not.
