Ethical mess for UK’s arms trade
One, again, wonders how this links up with the topic of Westminster intimating refusal to engage in military trade with an independent Scotland. Likewise we now know, from an MPs’ committee investigation, that Britain exports arms to several governments that Westminster otherwise speaks ill of – including Iran, Zimbabwe, Belarus, Argentina and even Syria, where it appears that British arms suppliers are selling to both sides in the conflict there.
What an ethical dog’s breakfast. Can we expect Nato member states to be holding their next strategic meeting in the North Korea capital, Pyongyang?
Ian Johnstone, Peterhead