Keir Starmer says he would use nuclear weapons if needed

Great, he’s saying the exact same thing every prime minister since we got the things has said, as he should. Why is this news?

Needed? I want a PM who will use them if things start looking a bit iffy.

I really hate how much of our election cycle revolves around nuclear war, a situation that has never occurred and is 99% likely to never occur. May as well ask what they plan to do in the event of an alien invasion.

I love this bi-annual slapping the cocks on the table where everyone gets stoked someone’s willing to help bring about a nuclear holocaust.

Edit… I’m not arguing for or against nukes, it’s just a pretty pathetic spectacle.

Edit 2… for anyone who disagrees I strongly recommend the documentary ‘Countdown to Zero’ and maybe a viewing of the fantastic yet horrifying ‘Threads’

The only sane response you can give. It’s the entire point of MAD. This wouldn’t be anywhere near as hot a topic if it wasn’t for the last time this came up during an election run and the main opponent gave a wet blanket response because he was and is dogshit at geopolitics.

I see we are at the most pointless part of the election cycle..

God do I hate these weapons. So many people wank themselves silly over us nuking someone (I remember the crowd at Corbyn’s QT in 2019), but fucking watch Threads, you’ll change your minds after that.

I do solely swear to you, the British public, that one day I may, God willing, reduce as many as several hundred thousand people at a time to nothing more than bleached shadows on walls, in your name, if it’s already being done to us and we’re all dead anyway.

What an absurd fucking island we are.

I really wish we could have a frank conversation about nuclear weapons and implement launch codes to prevent a rogue launch. Every other country has this, it’s terrifying and negligent that the UK doesn’t have any system in place.

Well he wouldn’t use them would he?
Bloody weapon that he is with his tank photo op playing dress up. He couldn’t use a suicidal Tory government to his advantage let alone a nuke.
He’d authorise them, and the professionals would thankfully take over from him at that point before he clarified the target twelve times. 
‘let me be clear, it is very important to listen to this point. These nuclear weapons are the subject of much misreporting about my views and capabilities. So I would like to set the record straight and clearly state for the whole audience that we have some very clearly defined definitions of them which will be made publicly available as soon as my team has released them’

Bloody farce. Let’s see Sir Kier threatening to joist Putin and that’s something I’d like to see 

What he says on TV and what he writes on the Letters of Last Resort might be very different things. The important thing is that Russia/China have to believe him.

Great is he going to get us out of this proxy war with Russia in Ukraine that has nothing to do with us.