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Britain's shame or putting great back in Britain?

UK remains second biggest arms exporter with £11bn of orders

British manufacturers recorded second highest figure ever in 2019 despite court order restricting sales to Saudi Arabia

www.theguardian.com

 

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It's shameful. All those lives lost and ruined. Increasing terrorism, instability, forced migration

Someone will be along, if "we" didn't sell them they'd buy from USA, France, Russia, Israel etc.

Yes great, the butcher's apron.

 

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Arm the unemployed

 

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It's shameful. All those lives lost and ruined. Increasing terrorism, instability, forced migration

Someone will be along, if "we" didn't sell them they'd buy from USA, France, Russia, Israel etc.

Yes great, the butcher's apron.

Should give them away

It's Britain's shame that very few school children have any familiarity with assault rifles unlike our russian friends

 

[Kevbad the Bad]

Should give them away

It's Britain's shame that very few school children have any familiarity with assault rifles unlike our russian friends

Tbf, she is disassembling it.

 

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Tbf, she is disassembling it.

And putting it back together in less than 20"

How many British teens could do the same, either to an ak, M4 or SA80? And that's before we get onto shooting

 

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As Tony Benn once said, if we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

 

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It is back, it is bigger it is more vile and lethal than ever before.
Nice people to do business with "Outside the exhibition halls, reality hits. “Please be aware,” a polite protester tells visitors, “that many of the countries you are doing business with are on the UK government’s human rights priority list.”

There is even a section for "medical innovations"

‘War is back. People want to stock up’: inside Europe’s biggest arms fair

Military spending is at an all-time high – and from laser-guided drones to dog armour, there is no shortage of hardware. Our writer visits the vast ‘supermarket of death’ that is London’s DSEI shop floor

www.theguardian.com

 

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Having used many of BAE’s products we should encourage them !

Sudan Syria and the Congo combatants would have been reduced to fisticuffs by now.
The woeful SA80 would be a rusting pile of shit by now wouldn’t even make a good club even the bayonet couldn’t hold an edge!
Teamed up with the crap Indian training ammo you’d be unable to murder anyone the rest of their range is eye watering expensive likely to turn up years late for instance the law 80 a stupidly large disposable anti tank rocket turned up in the 90s and had to be renamed the 94mm to hide the fact it was ten years late and obsolete.
BAE producing world peace with really shit and over priced weapons