Up to 50 migrants 'deliberately drowned' off Yemeni coast

What are, in your opinion, the policy implications of this for the UK?

We are enabling Saudi's brutal assault on Yemen, which has created the largest humanitarian crisis in the world today, using the weapons we happily sell them.

Disgusting.

Well yes but that's hardly relevant.

Of course it is: without our weapons Saudi wouldn't be reducing the poorest country in the region to rubble, so there wouldn't a need for these poor children to escape a war-zone/humanitarian crisis.

Of course it is: without our weapons Saudi wouldn't be reducing the poorest country in the region to rubble, so there wouldn't a need for these poor children to escape a war-zone/humanitarian crisis.

They're fleeing Ethiopia mostly, travelling TO Yemen and then further north, probably to Europe.

Without "our" weapons they would just buy them from someone else. If they are going to acquire weapons they will, whoever it's from.

It's still morally reprehensible to be selling weapons to them. It's downright wrong.

Merkel is to blame.

Now the whole third world wants to come to Europe, where they will live in poverty and on benefits, and be disappointed.

Oh I agree. But if the Saudis are going to insist on having these weapons anyway, they may as well get them from the Brits which in turn helps out British workers who make them. I'm sure there are plenty of other countries around the world who would be only too happy to step into Britain's shoes of supplying weapons should the day arrive the UK Government decides to make thousands of its own citizens unemployed because of some moral stance.

Without "our" weapons they would just buy them from someone else. If they are going to acquire weapons they will, whoever it's from.

Also, isn't there a naval blockade on Yemen?


If that's your logic why don't we just supply every terrorist group that commits war crimes across the world!
I don't know. Maybe we DO supply a lot of them but we just never get to hear about it !
What's a bit of complicity in war crimes when we can line our pockets

The third world has always wanted to come to Europe although it's only now they see a decent opportunity to do so. What you say about them living on benefits is also completely false and honestly just reeks of ignorance.

Unless they signed a clause or contract of some sort, insisting the weapons were only ever going to be used for peaceful, defence purposes. But how on earth would they monitor that and ensure it was being implemented?

There is a clear and growing link between foreign funding of Islamist extremism and the violent terrorism we have witnessed across the UK and Europe

[Saudi Arabia] is the chief funder of Islamic extremism in the UK

[Wahhabism is] the main source of global terrorism