In this season of peace and love, it is not just turkeys who are getting chestnuts rammed up their jacksie and a Hakim cruise missile down their chimney. This year the UK has merrily ignored Amnesty’s list of those who are naughty and nice, gifting Saudi Arabia with £3bn of arms, legitimacy and a lump of coal.
A Foreign Office diplomat explained; ‘Bombing impoverished countries is not just for Christmas – we’ll be doing it all year round. Just think of us as Saudi Arabia’s ‘little helper’. And Human Rights Watch best not peek on Christmas Eve, just in case they spy Santa dropping BL-755 cluster bombs from his sleigh.’
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