Stop selling arms to dictators, it's just wrong and bad for business

My mate Dave’s lad joined the army a few years back, keen as mustard. He ended up doing a tour in Yemen. Saw some awful stuff out there, he told me. Said they were rebuilding schools and hospitals one minute, then saw the aftermath of bombs from planes supplied by us the next. It’s a total contradiction, isn’t it? We talk a good game about human rights and democracy, but then we’re happy to cash in by selling weapons to regimes that are actively oppressing their own people and causing massive suffering.

This needs to stop. We should immediately halt all arms sales to countries with a consistent record of human rights abuses, particularly those involved in active conflict zones where those weapons are demonstrably being used against civilians. This isn't about being a pacifist; it's about basic decency and not making ourselves complicit in war crimes.