Owen Jones - Britain Has Sold Its Someone To The Household Of Saud. Shame On Us

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Owen Jones has written a pretty expert article inwards the Guardian today virtually Kingdom of Saudi Arabia exposing the BS us a Western morality: but banking company jibe the color of the money? 

The West is starting WW3 with Russian Federation because it was said they 'annexed' Crimea, where no i died, no shots were fired, no armies marched, no tanks rolled, together with no i resisted. The Ukrainians look to hold upwards quite happy to hold upwards business office of Russian Federation together with non business office of civil state of war torn Ukraine, but the Western press inform us that the Crimeans are scared to protestation inwards representative the Russian Federation undercover police pull shoot them. But when hundred of thousands of people, including women together with children, move out inwards Yemen, they're non besides fussed. 

Saudi Arabia is a tyranny that threatens all of us. It was key to the rising of the Taliban, al-Qaida together with Isis. It subjects women to monstrous oppression, maintains the decease penalization for gay people together with “witches”, bans all political parties together with costless media, together with uses British together with United States of America weapons to butcher civilians inwards Yemen. Britain’s alliance with the House of Saud exposes our ruling elite’s beak of “human rights” abroad every bit a crock of lies. Foreign regimes are arranged into a hierarchy of villains; but the guild is non decided on the terra firma of how villainous they are, rather how hostile they are deemed to hold upwards to western interests. There are many reasons why our country’s crumbling social guild has lost whatsoever legitimacy. This blood-soaked pact is every bit striking every bit any.

Take our political elite. When he was prime number minister, Tony Blair piled pressure on the attorney full general to destination a massive corruption scandal involving a Saudi arms deal. Since the Saudi-led onset on Republic of Yemen began, the British authorities has licensed £4.7bn of arms exports. British armed forces advisers involve hold even worked in Saudi state of war rooms. Federal Republic of Federal Republic of Germany has now halted arms exports to the Saudi regime; but fifty-fifty if to a greater extent than western bombs are dropped on schoolhouse buses, at that spot is no gamble the Tory authorities volition follow the German linguistic communication lead.

The Saudi regime spends hundreds of thousands on British MPs – generally Tory, but to a greater extent than or less Labour: from unusual trips to gifts. On one such trip, inwards Apr this year, Labour’s Paul Williams cooed that his “previous notions involve hold been blown out of the water”; that he had “seen a modern, progressive Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that has totally changed my sentiment of this country”. His Saudi funders must involve hold been delighted: the charge per unit of measurement of beheadings has doubled under the crown prince, Mohammed bin Salman; women’s rights activists and the country’s most prominent dissident have been arrested; together with thousands involve hold been butchered yesteryear the Saudis inwards Yemen. Shipping over gullible British parliamentarians on stage-managed trips to projection a faux icon of reform is a expert investment. Williams protests that he tin run across “the absolutely atrocious things the regime does”, but stresses the “economic together with social reforms taking place”, unable to convey that he was used.

The Guardian

Britain has sold its mortal to the House of Saud. Shame on us