UK universities have awarded honorary degrees to some very questionable people - such as Gaddafi - in return for large donations.
Cameron is currently wooing some of the regimes in the Middle East in order to obtain contracts. Many of these states have appalling human rights records, do not treat women as equals of men, and treat their immigrant workers worse than their animals. Blair squashed an enquiry into corruption because it might have damaged trade relations.
Is Britain prostituting itself? The only rationalisation I have heard so far is that it might be possible to influence these tyrants if we do business with them. Do you believe that? I don't.
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