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Previously on "excuse me... there's something in my eye"

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  • BR14
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    Most of our GDP is from selling each other our Grannies.
    FTFY

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  • DimPrawn
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    You've got it all backwards. A string of empty platitudes towards Saudi will be the UK's response for as long as they have got something we want, oil.

    Yes £6billion of arms sold to Saudi by UK weapons manufacturers. The UK has a GDP of $2.7 trillion. Selling weapons to Saudi is a skid mark on GDP.
    Most of our GDP is from selling each other our houses.

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by vetran View Post
    You know arms sales are about selling weapons?
    You've got it all backwards. A string of empty platitudes towards Saudi will be the UK's response for as long as they have got something we want, oil.

    Yes £6billion of arms sold to Saudi by UK weapons manufacturers. The UK has a GDP of $2.7 trillion. Selling weapons to Saudi is a skid mark on GDP.

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    Never said we were. But why are we trading with people who see fit to fly a 15 strong team out to Turkey on a private charter to use a bone saw to dispose of their opponents?

    You know arms sales are about selling weapons?

    Problem is that people who want to buy weapons aren't normally that nice.

    Its like Unilateral nuclear disarmament its pointless someone else will supply the bang, what we need to do is drive a global motion to stop dealing with such people. But they have so much cash!

    We may have a chance with the murder of Mr Kashoggi, lets hope our government and others grasp it.

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by TwoWolves View Post
    Why do the western left support the Iranian regime anyway?
    Probably because they don't depend on MSM for their sources of information.

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  • scooterscot
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    Originally posted by TwoWolves View Post
    Why are we responsible?
    Never said we were. But why are we trading with people who see fit to fly a 15 strong team out to Turkey on a private charter to use a bone saw to dispose of their opponents?
    Last edited by scooterscot; 18 October 2018, 09:40.

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  • TwoWolves
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    Why are we responsible? It's Iran that should stop it's proxy war to start with.

    Why do the western left support the Iranian regime anyway?

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  • northernladuk
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    Originally posted by scooterscot View Post
    No idea why the UK supports this terrorist sponsoring country.
    You do really...

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  • scooterscot
    started a topic excuse me... there's something in my eye

    excuse me... there's something in my eye

    Yemen air strike: The school that's lost 42 children


    Try watching this video without bottom lip quiver. Imagine if that was your local school.

    You may well remember - the pictures were hard to forget - the scene in Yemen in August when dozens of schoolchildren and adults were killed in an airstrike. The strike was carried out by a coalition - led by Saudi Arabia and backed by the US, the UK and France. They are supporting Yemen's government against the Houthi rebels - backed by Iran.
    In three years of fighting, at least 10,000 people have been killed and millions have fled their homes.
    Our correspondent Orla Guerin - with producer Nicola Careem and cameraman Lee Durant - sent this report from Dahyan in northern Yemen.

    Meanwhile.. . BAE Systems will go to the Saudi ball - No idea why the UK supports this terrorist sponsoring country.


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