Thorn Berry:

House of Commons

Crown Prince doesn’t deserve a red-carpet.

We want to have a good diplomatic and economic relationship with Saudi Arabia, but like any good relation, there must be honesty, and most important, we must tell them that as long as they continue the indiscriminate bombing of residential areas, of farms of markets in Yemen.

As long as they continue to restrict the flow of food , medical supplies and fuels to a population suffering mass epidemics and malnutrition and cholera, then they should not expect our support in that war and there Crown Prince does not deserve to have the red-carpet rolled out for him here in Britain, because let us look at the man who the British government are bowing and scraping too today, the architect of the Saudi airstrike   and blockade in Yemen funding Jihadi groups in the Syrian civil war ordering his guards to beat Up the prime minister of Lebanon.

And in 8 months since he became Crown Prince doubling the number of executions in Saudi Arabia but if we’re supposed to ignore all that We’re supposed to ignore it because his proposal that Saudi woman be allowed to drive just as they can everywhere else in the world.

The UK government pretends  to care about Human Rights and war crimes , but when it comes to Saudi Arabia and Yemen there is nothing but a shameful silence and we all know because all they ultimately care about is how to plug the hole in trade and growth  that is coming because of their plans and Brexit and if the minister wants to dispute that can he answer one simple question when is the government going to stop bowing down to Saudi Arabia and instead use our role and penholder on Yemen at the United Nations to demand immediate ceasefire and end to the blockade proper peace talks and a permanent end to this dreadful shameful war.