Thursday, April 09, 2020

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, LAV exports are on the cards again

Oh, and look: while no-one was watching, the Liberal government signs a renegotiated deal to export light armoured vehicles (LAVs, also known as small tanks) to Saudi Arabia, a country with an abysmal human rights record, which has been shown to be using such vehicles in its ongoing war against the Houthi rebels in Yemen.
So, this is now no longer an inadvisable and probably illegal deal struck by the previous Conservative government, and inherited by the Liberals against their better judgement. This is an equally inadvisable and probably illegal deal of the Liberals' very own.
Really? What are they thinking.

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