"If you wish personally to accept the sins of our forefathers so be it "
None of us have any control over what our Government does on or behalf beyond not voting for them, and even then, there is no guarantee that the next lot will be any better
Britain has just sold 48 fighter planes to Saudi Arabia - it is inevitable that they will be used on the famine stricken people of Yemen
At present UNCR reports that there are 22.2 million people in need, 2014,026 internally displaced people 280,629 refugees and asylum seekers from war and famine
By propping up such regimes and selling them weapons makes us up to our uxters in their problems.
"That's that niggling little word 'if' again. A small word with a big meaning".
No "if" about it Nigel - the overwhelming conflicts that have caused the refugee crisis are traceable back to oil
You have the statistics and the maps - if you disagree with them, produce your own facts.

This goes for Iain's mythical claim about the role of our army
"Your way of life is built upon the sacrifice of the armed services."
Britain hasn't fought a defensive war since 1945
- all conflicts since have been about maintaining political and financial control abroad
We "owe out way of life" to the fact that for centuries we were able to plunder and enslave weaker and less developed countries for our own interests
That exploitation continues by proxy - now we fill our shops with goods produced in semi-feudal conditions

Even if none of this were true, we would have a moral obligation to assist less fortunate countries - that was the Britain I was born to and lived in most of my life
I have no religion, but Britain struts its stuff as a Christian country - is Christianity about turning away those in need?
I find so much of this unbelievably inhuman - if this is what Britain has become, I'm glad to be out of it.
Jim Carroll