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Why waste money on bombs and bullets when ventilators are what’s needed?
SYMON HILL invites readers to join the Peace Pledge Union’s call for military budgets to be reallocated to tackling Covid-19
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WHAT’S the difference between a ventilator and a fighter jet? Britain doesn’t have a shortage of fighter jets. 

In recent years, British ministers have spent billions of pounds of public money on 48 F35 fighter jets. 

They will not make us any safer. Like all weapons, they contribute to making the world less safe. 

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