Well there was me rubbing my hands in glee each time the news had stated that the ongoing SFO investigation could seriously damage the UK defence industry and our links with the loathsome Saudi regime. The thought of many already subsidised up to the hilt defence industry jobs being lost sounded like a bonus.
 http://www.caat.org.uk/publications/economics/subsidies-factsheet-0202.php
There has to be a better way for people to spend their time rather than being paid by taxpayers to invent ever more vicious ways to maim and kill people around the world. I guess this cancellation of the investigation only goes to prove that if something sounds too good to be true in this unjust world then it invariably is.

Our closeness to the Saudis is another of those "special relationships" made in hell. There seems to be no limit to how our country is prepared to toady and arse lick to the Saudi goverment and even be blackmailed by them. This is invariably in order to maintain oil supplies and grotesque arms deals with one of the most repressive and undemocratic regimes in the world. This has been going on for decades irrespective of which political party we have in power. Back in 1980, ITV produced a very well researched TV docudrama depicting the true story of how a royal Saudi princess had - let's say - acted in a somewhat loose manner.
 http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=%22death+of+a+princess%22+saudi&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0277667/
She and her lover paid the ultimate price for their adultery when they were beheaded by order of the royal family with no proper trial. The film was widely acclaimed, attracting a 10 million British audience. The Saudis kicked up such a stink about the film being shown that they threatened to cancel defence deals worth billions etc. The British government was running around like a headless chicken at the very thought of this happening so in the end foreign sec lord fucking Carrington was dispatched to Saudi to make the most obsequious grovelling apology to the royal family there. I think he might have even prostrated himself before the king? Even in my relatively apolitical state then I remember being close to puking at this spectacle.

When everyone is asking why people today have so little respect for law and morals, is it any surprise when some laws so clearly don't apply to the rich and powerful. It seems that oil and weapons are all that count in the world today.

not that these fuckers demand bribes but that we sell arms to them in the first place.

not that we sell arms to them but that we make them in the first place.