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For the Love of Ideas
'not in my name':
is the british government enabling wars on innocent people?
'short term profits are being put ahead of the wellbeing of people. We don’t know where these weapons are going to end up. We don’t know who they are going to be used against'.
A Warship Lauches a Sea-based Airstrike. Source: Republic of Korea Armed Forces
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"Fighters for world peace".
"Crusaders for human-rights".
"Leaders of the free world".
Ever heard the British Government call itself any of these?
Around £7.7 billion of Britan's GDP last year came from arms sales. But it regularly faces criticism for who it sells those arms to. British-sold weapons can prop up human-rights abusing regimes across the world, or they can be used to combat them.
I spoke to Andrew Smith from the Campaign Against the Arms Trade. He exposed some facts about this revenue the British Government may not want its populace to be reminded of.