Look At Our Shiny New Military Weapon While Shivering

Every Government receives a certain amount to spend and how it decides to spend it is based on it's own politics and ideology so what it spends on Welfare, NHS or Education is a decision they make, they can raise or cut it depending on the leader of the day.
The Conservatives decided early on to not fund the NHS as much as other Governments, a decision which after 10 years of serious underfunding, came back to bite it hard when COVID-19 hit and staff, bed and PPE shortages had it panicking.
Years of Austerity and a cut in Foreign Aid were sold to us as essential to reduce the UK debt and the Boris Johnson Government seem to have taken the only other route to book balancing, raising taxes.      
Come April the extra 1.5% of National Insurance will hurt when it comes alongside utility prices rising by 54% and inflation reaching an expected 7% and the foolishness of Brexit will further reduce choice and spending power so it is galling to read that the Government is writing off £9 billion of unusable PPE and £4 billion in COVID fraud.
Something which has been crept quietly out is the £1.4bn the Government have set aside for a new military space programme which 'underpins vital, battle-winning technologies' and 'seek out and seize the enduring strategic advantage opportunities offered by space'.
The book balancing doesn't seem to have affected the weapons of war, the defence budget was increased by 12% in 2020 to £50.6 billion, twice as much as it spends on Employment.
The defence budget includes the UK's 255 Nuclear Weapons which costs £4.5 billion annually which is weapons we will never use and if we do, there will not be a World left afterwards to worry about but it is worth remembering that the next time the Government of the 5th richest nation in the World
wrings it hands and announces cuts and tax rises, it is a question of what they are spending it on and not how much they have to spend.  
At least GCHQ will be able to watch you shivering in your house from seven miles up come April.