Yemen: Tories have "blood on their hands"

With "more than 8 million people on the brink of starvation" in Yemen, and "22 million relying on humanitarian aid", one would have expected any western government with a hint of a sense of decency and responsibility to have voiced massive disapproval of the latest  Saudi bombardment of Hodeida (Morning Star, 13/06/18). Instead, this callous Tory administration not only supplies the Saudis with weapons, but with military training and advice. 

        May and Johnson will say, of course, that the government "said its piece", but the truth is that the Saudis know that as long as their cheque books are open, they have the total support of the UK. Didn`t the March visit of bin Salman to Britain prove it, with all the "bowing and scraping", as Emily Thornberry accurately described the shameful event?

 Now we hear of the US and UK acting together to block a Swedish attempt to get the United Nations to demand a ceasefire. Is any further proof needed that this government has managed to take British foreign policy to depths previously unreached, even by Cameron, Blair and Thatcher.

  Hopefully, Corbyn will use PMQs to stress not only the opposition of his party, but of all civilised people in Britain, to this murderous government, complicit in crimes which deepen the world`s worst humanitarian crisis. They have blood on their hands!