"What if the government were to realise that the world threats haven’t changed in the last five months? What if they actually concluded that what we are living through shows us those threats are potentially increasing?"
it doesn't matter Bob - they've spent the last 2 months in the UK telling people their only hope of staying alive is more spending on the Health Service, that these people are heroes, that they are Saints. The Govt is pouring cash into to "save the economy" - you have kids making posters and videos about the health system
They can't turn round in 6 months and say " we've changes our minds - we need the money for some more F-35's" - actually they can - but they'd be hanging from lamp posts in Westminster before the night was out........