[jaxie]

Originally Posted by Brillopad

That's how the voting system works, and it was about another million more. In any public vote those with less votes have to accept defeat and make the best of it. Everyone can't get what they want, someone has to lose. Constantly whinging and moaning about it doesn't reflect well on the losing side.

[jaxie]

Originally Posted by Merry Corbynmas

Ah right, we have justified selling arms to Saudi as they have been said to share intelligence?

Are you saying that all arms sales end when there is a labour government. Lets have a little glance back to just before 2010 when the cluster bombs were sold to Saudi, well goodness that was Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Your friend Corbyn's mates sold them the bombs.

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by jaxie

Are you saying that all arms sales end when there is a labour government. Lets have a little glance back to just before 2010 when the cluster bombs were sold to Saudi, well goodness that was Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Your friend Corbyn's mates sold them the bombs.

Nope, it was thatcher.

The admission came in advance of a statement by Britain’s defence secretary, Michael Fallon, admitting that UK-supplied cluster bombs had been used by Saudi Arabian-led forces. Fallon told the House of Commons that a “limited number” of BL755 cluster munitions exported from the UK in the 1980s had been dropped by the Arab coalition.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...er-bombs-yemen

[jaxie]

Originally Posted by Merry Corbynmas

Nope, it was thatcher.

The admission came in advance of a statement by Britain’s defence secretary, Michael Fallon, admitting that UK-supplied cluster bombs had been used by Saudi Arabian-led forces. Fallon told the House of Commons that a “limited number” of BL755 cluster munitions exported from the UK in the 1980s had been dropped by the Arab coalition.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...er-bombs-yemen

The government referred to in these articles in regard arms and hypocrisy were Labour.

http://www.gsdrc.org/document-librar...-arms-exports/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/503495.stm

[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by jaxie

The government referred to in these articles in regard arms and hypocrisy were Labour.

http://www.gsdrc.org/document-librar...-arms-exports/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/503495.stm

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.