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Friday, November 9, 2012

''Human rights and military sales, not a good fit''

From Public Service Europe

''The British prime minister insists that he speaks up resolutely for human rights, especially the non-discrimination of women. There is no sign that his Middle East audience, who he is attempting to sell military planes, hears what he is saying – argues our resident satirist Schadenfreude

The British Prime Minister is back from his second visit to the Middle East where a top item in his programme was masterminding a campaign to sell large numbers of Typhoon jets. The Typhoon was originally an interceptor but it is now a ground-attack aircraft. Parts of it are made in Britain. One of the inducements is the offer of a joint base in the Gulf. Unexpected from a country, which gave up on East of Suez decades ago.''

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