British PM embarks on Mid-East tour to sell weapons

British Prime Minister David Cameron has embarked on a tour of the Middle East region in a highly unusual trip in which he is acting as a travelling salesman for weapons.

The cash-strapped Britain is so desperate that its prime minister is personally pushing to sell as many as 100 Typhoon fighter jets to despotic regimes in the Middle East irrespective of their bad human rights records.

Cameron’s trip has raised “serious questions” about the UK government’s commitment to promoting peace in a region already struggling with uprisings and revolutions.

Britain’s deployment of warplanes to the region is a destabilizing factor as most critics believe.

Green MP Caroline Lucas says while the economy needs a boost the Prime Minister should draw the line at “dirty money”.

“Unfortunately the UK has a shameful track record of exporting arms and equipment to regimes in countries such as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Libya – we can’t now claim to be on the side of peace and democracy while our Prime Minister acts as a travelling salesman for the arms industry.

“It’s time to urgently review our role in the international arms trade. Our economy may need a boost, but we certainly don’t need this dirty money”, Lucas added.

Henry McLaughlin, from the Campaign Against Arms Trade, added: “The Prime Minister claims that he wishes to support democracy in the Middle East but at the same time sells arms to these authoritarian regimes.

“Despite everything that has happened in the last two years, the UK government continues to bolster authoritarian regimes with weapons sales and to spend taxpayers’ money on promoting further deals”, he said adding that “they don’t just approve arms sales, they promote it.”

Britain and other western European countries, as well as the U.S. believe they have an absolute right to control the oil-rich Middle East region, therefore, they employed the Zionist regime of Israel as their watch-dog in the area.