OPINION – austerity, military spendingAgainst a background of 15 years of austerity and the government’s Strategic Defence Review we will be marching at the People’s Assembly No More Austerity demonstration under the banner ‘Welfare not Warfare’. Starmer said his Defence Review was “a blueprint to make Britain safer and stronger, a battle-ready, bomber-clad nation” but is no such thing. British Palestinian activist, Leanne Mohamad, who almost unseated Wes Streeting at the general election last year, will also be marching. At home, the Labour government under Keir Starmer is continuing austerity, cutting vital services and entrenching poverty. She said earlier this week that PCS members will be there in their thousands saying no to austerity and no to war.