British PM Willing to Nuke Hundreds of Thousands; Parliament Approves Funding

Insists Not Having Nukes Would Be 'Gross Irresponsibility'

by Jason Ditz

In one of the first high profile parliamentary debates since she took over the premiership last week, British PM Theresa May today insisted she would have no hesitation in ordering nuclear strikes abroad that would kill hundreds of thousands of civilians.

The somewhat blunt, somewhat genocidal answer appears to have been the right one for the crowd, as it wasn’t long thereafter that parliament agreed to spend upward of $40 billion modernizing their nuclear weapons arsenal. Many analysts have suggested that the $40 billion is a gross underestimate, and the nukes will end up costing far more.

The question about massacring civilians with a nuclear strike is a common one during such debates, and historically one prime ministers dodge. Former Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe said he believed it was a question no prime minister would ever directly answer.

But with Labour’s leader Jeremy Corbyn being open that he “does not believe the threat of mass murder is a legitimate way to go about international relations,” and that he absolutely would not kill millions of innocent people, May ultimately decided to go the other, pro-nuclear holocaust way.

May went on from answering the question to insist that not keeping their nuclear arsenal would be “gross irresponsibility,” Defense Secretary Michael Fallon also backed the move, claiming North Korea is a growing threat and that nukes “are not going to disappear.”

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