Keir Starmer must listen to Neil Kinnock’s lightbulb moment about the woefulness of our defences

Kinnock is right

IT’S fair to say we haven’t always seen eye to eye with Neil Kinnock.

But Keir Starmer must listen to the ex-Labour leader’s lightbulb moment about the woefulness of our defences, and our security now being “in peril”.

With the increasing threat from ­Russia and China we cannot limp along spending just 2.3 per cent of our GDP on defence and vaguely pledging 2.5 per cent at some unspecified point.

That budget must be dramatically and imminently increased to three or four per cent, as Lord Kinnock says.

Not just because Donald Trump may insist on it if Nato is to continue as it is.

But because we simply MUST snap out of decades of complacency about our own strength and our air defences . . . and spend big to upgrade the lot.

Further tax rises to fund it will finish off our already shaky economy.

So cuts must be found elsewhere — welfare, Miliband’s Net Zero insanity, foreign aid and the vast, bloated civil service.

The PM may imagine all those are vital.

Nothing comes near the importance or urgency of our national security. Nothing.

Pervs go free

THE fewer online paedophiles we jail, the more online paedophiles there are.

Weaken the deterrent and the perverts don’t think twice about leering over illegal videos or photos of child sex abuse.

There was public outrage when BBC star Huw Edwards dodged prison despite possessing the worst Category A material.

But only 17 per cent of sickos like him were jailed last year, less than half the proportion in 2010.

Meanwhile overall offenders soared from 1,459 back then to 3,220 last year.

The Sun wants every pervert caught with the gravest material caged automatically — to help prevent kids falling prey to what is a horrific global trade.

We hope the Government, awaiting its sentencing review’s report, is listening.

Bang up more of these monsters . . . we are certain overall offences will fall too.

Bach-ing mad

IT’S the maddest new tactic yet in the ­failing war on drugs.

Cops telling families terrified by violent junkies to repel them with classical music, as if a Strauss waltz or Schubert sonata will have them fleeing like ­vampires from daylight.

But it gets worse.

Residents are also advised to play it quietly to avoid upsetting neighbours.

Soft classical music?

It’s both woke and hilariously inept.

But it is enraging too.

Because the real solution to the dealers and addicts making life hell near London’s Abbey Road studios is to send cops mob-handed to cart them all off and confiscate the supply.

Is a simple raid too much these days for the Met to Handel?