Author Archives: Kaye Stearman

The Independent View: Arms deals with India – why Lib Dems should say no

PM Cameron’s heavyweight government plus business trip to India went swimmingly, so we are to believe, despite that diplomatic faux pas about Pakistani support for terrorism and Indian discontent about proposed immigration quotas. One fortunate outcome for Mr Cameron was that both issues diverted attention from a highly contentious arms deal involving arms giant BAE.

Under the deal, 57 Hawk jets will be manufactured under licence in India with BAE’s Indian partner, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL), with technical support from BAE. Roll-Royce also gets a slice of the deal as its jet engines will be used in production. The deal is …

Posted in Op-eds and The Independent View | Tagged , , and | 8 Comments
Advert

Recent Comments

  • Peter Wrigley
    Here's an extract from a Jonathan Liew article in today's Guardian (4th August): " . . .[W]hat if migration is only a problem to those who want it to be? Wh...
  • Rif Winfield
    One thing we should bear in mind is that Andy Burnham seems genuinely convinced of the need for adopting proportional representation (although he will have diff...
  • Peter Martin
    "the jobs are there, the young people are there........." It's not so simple. We aren't talking about fitting round pegs into round holes. The...
  • Nigel Jones
    In North Staffordshire we have a proposed boundary between North and South which makes no community sense. It retains a dividing line in Newcastle-under-Lyme wh...
  • Andy Daer
    I expect a more believable theory would suggest that modern Israeli Jews are trying to expunge the memory of apparently docile European Jews being annihilated b...