Our special relationship with Saudi Arabia
Our war in Yemen
Our seven covert wars (Syria, Iraq, Libya, Yemen, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Somalia)
Our role as a massive arms exporter, to anyone who wants them
Our increased military training programme to repressive states
Our two new aircraft carriers, built while a million food parcels are distributed
Our £178 billion military requipment programme
Our raising of the ‘Russian threat’ for domestic/foreign political/military purposes
Our role in maintaining the world’s tax havens
Our ongoing dispossession of the Chagos Islanders
Our special relationship with Trump
Our deepened relations with repressive Gulf states such as Bahrain and Oman
Our new special relationship with the military rulers of Egypt
Our de facto support for Israel’s illegal settlement building and blockade of Gaza
Our failure to recognise a Palestinian state
Our deepened relations with human rights abusers such as Turkey and Uzbekistan
Our Navy’s stated ambition to patrol the world militarily to protect the UK’s ‘growing global economic ambition’
Our enhancement of nuclear weapons
Our government’s stated willingness to use nuclear weapons in a first strike
Our ongoing military relationship with Pakistan, a major sponsor of terrorism
Our secret drone wars
Our plans to support mining in the Arctic
Our role in promoting mining companies like Shell and Rio Tinto
Our covert and overt role in backing extremist groups and fuelling jihadism
Our mining companies’ role in controlling Africa’s natural resources
Our promotion of the privatisation of health and education in developing countries
Our opposition to a Financial Transactions Tax
Our refusing to support binding legal regulation for corporations’ activities overseas
Our role in acquiescing in corporate tax abuses and evasion across the developing world
Our contribution to massive greenhouse gas emissions from backing coal and oil/gas projects across the developing world
Our refusal to adequately clamp down on private security companies
Our championing of financial secrecy in overseas territories like the British Virgin Islands
Our role in championing corporate agriculture and land grabs in Africa
Our opposition to agro-ecological farming in developing countries
Our use of aid as a tool for supporting big business and foreign policy
Our support for neo-liberal economic policies across the developing world
Our support for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
Our ignoring of international law and belief we can use military force where/when we want
Our support for opposition groups in Syria, prolonging the war
Our outright opposition to base foreign policy on ethics, human rights, development and peace
I COULD ask Zac Goldsmith but he and I have some history since he suggested I was a terrorist supporter’s sympathetic ally. Turned out the so called “terrorist supporter” was actually an Imam who goes around trying to deter Muslim hotheads from any inclination for violence in pursuance of an Islamic arcadia!!!
How about that?
Sounds like the UK still thinks it’s an Imperial power, only an even nastier one as it’s allied to the worlds biggest and nastiest bully.