At the back of my head was Cameron's rejoicing at having sold £5.6 billion-worth of arms to Saudi Arabia, and the recent UN report castigating Saudi Arabia for killing so many children and civilians in Yemen. Not only are they using British weapons to kill civilians, but British personnel are assisting them with targeting.
Hey, it doesn't matter as long as it makes us money and provides jobs.
There isn't really much point in writing to my MP. He has the intellectual depth of a small puddle, and thinks he represents only the interests of the minority who voted for him.
But midway though the letter, I had an epiphany.
It's not that the establishment loves Saudi Arabia. Rather they want to BE Saudi Arabia, with its splendid record of shrugging off all demands that it should respect human rights, its profoundly accepted inequalities (especially if you happen to be a Saudi woman), and its insouciantly unapologetic totalitarianism.
I mean, who wants democracy anyway ?
Not these characters:
If they could just get away with, I reckon these guys would be ecstatic with a system exactly like Saudi Arabia's.
If you thought satire was dead, think again. The UK connived to get Saudi Arabia elected as Chair of a UN panel on human rights.
When Cameron intones about British values, I wonder which ones Saudi Arabia embodies. More likely, I think, that our establishment worthies just wish they could share Saudi values, and the hell with this tedious pretence of democracy.
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