Tomorrow [Tuesday 3rd November], at a Defence
rally in Central London, is expected to say:
Hackers have taken control of supermarket fridges and freezers
across Europe, turning up the temperatures and destroying
thousands of pounds of food. Imagine someone being able to ruin
the food in your local supermarket without ever setting foot
inside.
North Korean hackers have just stolen more than $6 billion in
cryptocurrency. Hostile states can steal billions to help finance
their regimes without firing a single shot.
Hackers targeted power and heating plants in Poland, shutting
down equipment at one facility supplying heat to 50,000 people.
The operators prevented a wider disruption, but imagine someone
being able to threaten your heating from behind a computer
screen.
The threats are already reaching into our everyday lives,
but Labour is failing to take them seriously. Last week's Budget
was the moment to fund defence, but instead we got more delays,
more excuses and another plan to make a plan.
While Britain faces growing threats, Labour is busy apologising
for things that happened 200 years ago, entertaining demands for
reparations and watering down immigration plans to please
its backbenchers. Meanwhile, businesses are closing, welfare
spending is rising and defence is being neglected.
It isn't about stockpiling baked beans, it's about
building a strong economy, getting people back into work
and having a military no one would dare challenge.
Labour puts social security before national security,
while we would make the difficult decisions they refuse to
make.
