Al Yamamah: Conservatives silent, yet again
Written by Mark Pack on 17th January 2007 – 1:27 pmPMQs today - Ming Campbell questioned Blair about the blocking of prosecutions for corruption over the Al Yamamah arms deal with Saudi Arabia, and as for the Tories - silent yet again on the issue.
It’s clearly a very sore point for Blair (you can tell how rattled he is by how rude he is in response) yet once again the so-called “Official Opposition” have run a mile from the issue. Could it be because they have rather more connections with Saudi arms deals and money than they would rather we knew … ?
Note: the Liberal Democrats have a blog dedicated to Al Yamamah and related issues: www.corruptionisacrime.com
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17th January 2007 at 2:16 pm
God Ming is pathetic! No one cares less about arms and the Saudis - does Ming have any other interest other than international affairs?
Blair is irritated because he gets bored with swatting Ming’s patheic attempts to find an issue that interests people.
I’m no Tory but at least Dave had a question about an issue that is really bothering people.
17th January 2007 at 3:36 pm
Why when you click on Gordon Greige’s name does it direct you to Suz Blog?
17th January 2007 at 8:39 pm
I don’t think these trolls know how to control themselves - especially after they’ve had a few.
Remember the late Alan Clark MP: “I don’t particularly care which bunch of foreigners is killing which other bunch of foreigners.” And that was a defence of the arms trade, please note.
No, as long as a handful of rich people grow richer, and a few million Third World sub-racials get wiped off the planet, everything is wonderful in Troll House.
See how aristocratic notions of social and racial hierarchy get passed down to the courtiers?
Wannabes like Gordon Greige might like to think that Cameron and Osborne respect them. Don’t be deceived. Look again at Clark’s dictum and substitute “grammar school oik” for “foreigner”.
There was a picutre of George “Hang Nelson Mandela” Osborne in one of the papers yesterday. The look said it all. “I’m a rich Old Etonian toff. You lot are smelly, proletarian scum.”
18th January 2007 at 10:31 am
Ming is correct to pursue this - it is not a foreign affair - it is a domestic one of great import.
Blair has subverted the rule of law for short-term gain, but how can business have confidence in a country where the rulers exercise arbitrary power?
It is an issue of yet more erosion of the rule of law and the basis for a free society in this country.
19th January 2007 at 12:41 am
I notice some praise in the Telegraph for Ming:
Ming is the dignified one in a House of very common types
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/18/nsketch18.xml
29th June 2007 at 7:39 pm
i just hope that everyone in the defence industry remembers what u lot did and does not vote for you. u r a national disgrace. why not ask what Lockheed martin or Boeing did in Saudi
29th June 2007 at 7:48 pm
Hello, Mr/Mrs/Ms/Dr Smithers. Do you by any chance know g arkwright?