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Originally Posted by jaxie
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Applied knowledge service?..... Is this another name for fake news site? :/
The govt is attempting to distance itself?...
But let's look at that article...
He added: "We have banned land mines. We have banned torture equipment. We do not supply arms anywhere in the world for internal repression or external aggression."
On Indonesia, Mr Hain said: "The fact is that we have not sold arms under the Labour government to Indonesia which could be used for internal repression or external aggression."
He added: "
Under the last full year of the Tory government they sold £443m worth of arms to Indonesia. Under the first full year of the Labour government that was £2m."
Shadow Defence Secretary Iain Duncan Smith accused the government of hypocrisy over its approach to arms sales. "While Conservatives welcome the news of a strong defence industry, Labour face the continued embarrassment of their blatant hypocrisy on arms sales," said Mr Duncan Smith.
"All of the pre-election talk of turning swords into ploughshares has been shown up to be another part of the great Labour lie. Labour preach a holier than thou policy on arms sales, but the truth is that
they have continued exactly the same policy as the Conservatives."
So the conservative policy
isto maximise arms sales?
And they continue to do so, as we are now being made aware.