"All athiest are terrorists" say our allies

The Saudis don't want to attack Western targets that is the very reason why we should be willing to work with them.

So we should forget the fact they persecute gays, women and atheists?
I'm not saying we can't support them, but don't pretend that you care about 'freedom and democracy' and then support the Saudis.

The post you quoted made no objection to oil products, just stated that one of the main reasons the UK maintain a relationship with Saudi is oil supply, which is true.

When have I ever prepared to care about freedom and democracy?

Why would you not speak to a trading partner?

When have I ever prepared to care about freedom and democracy?

Saudi Arabia are not the sole producer of oil in the world.

Exactly the flip argument can be made. Why do you go on about how bad Hamas are and then support the Saudis?
Yet again, astonishing levels of hypocrisy from the right wing nut jobs.

Yeah whatabouterry doesn't really apply when you're constantly preaching to everyone how you're the different, righteous, moral one and all that tosh.

That aside, I've never said a single complimentary thing about Saudi Arabia in my life, nor am I a "right wing nut job" for that matter. Though why I'm pointing this out to the person who seems to think that anyone right of John McDonnell is a Tory is anyone's guess. So you can leave the "you" out of it. The point is that it seems like overnight you lot are banging on about Saudi.....ever since Owen Jones did lol.

I note though you don't dispute the hypocrisy of going on about Saudh yet supporting someone who pockets lots of money from Al Jazeera and Press TV. Guess it's inescapable.

This reminds me (speaking of taking suddenly fashionable viewpoints), I forgot at the time to ask you about your claim recently that you'd criticised Putin "plenty of times" or along those lines. If so, why never on here? Just a matter of interest you understand...

Just the largest and cheapest.

Well that's just a choice you have to make, do you want to pay more for an item in the knowledge that you are not supporting an authoritarian theocracy with a frankly awful human rights record or is it more important that you save the pennies at the expense of making the world a worse place.

I know that most of the world don't enjoy western democracy, but western democracy only survives in the west.

Not sure why that's relevant.

All I'm saying is that we don' have to buy stuff from people who we don't like, just because its cheap.

You're as bad as the lefties who just want to leave people to be slaughtered under the regimes.

I know that most of the world don't enjoy western democracy, but western democracy only survives in the west.

Eh, youll have to define western democracy (I presume you mean Liberal Democracy) . India, South Korea, Japan, South Africa seem to be doing alright. Plenty of others seem to be transitioning pretty well e.g Ghana, Tunisia...

https://freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/freedom-world-2015#.Vk2b6BGvGUk

India was a legacy of empire as was South Africa.
Japan had it enforced post ww2.
South Korea has only recently adopted it under American pressure.