The sale of tear gas and rubber bullets specifically is conducted via an"open licence" system meaning the value of exports is not made public - in total three separate licences were approved for this equipment.
Can we be shamed and embarrassed any further! I hope those who voted these vile people in are happy.
It is appalling that the others DO NOT support this. Why decline to sign?
Interesting labour has about 200 MPs why havent you at least been able to convince your own party to sign?
So few 😞
mikegalsworthy The Westminster Tories will be importing them shortly...
mikegalsworthy Best of British
mikegalsworthy will not happen because boris trump lover
mikegalsworthy As far as I can see, everyone is bothered by the police, no one likes their actions, so the next time someone threatens your life or property, don't call them. The police are not perfect, but it is very dangerous to discredit and weaken them.
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Looks like we really need all we have over here
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166 out of 650.
With you Emily 100% Thanks for the work you also Have done in support for your constituents. Thank you.
As long as anarchists are destroying communities and businesses, I say keep exporting them.
heather_c_c Many more MPs have financial interest in arms sales.
Who do the French get theirs from?
Tom_Fowdy Do you keep it for yourself?
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Femi_Sorry There should be a ban on all weapon exports from all countries to all other countries (we can deal with domestic use later). Why should any country want to export hurt and pain to others? I don't care how fucking profitable it is. NOT IN MY NAME BLM
'Kinetic impact projectiles (KIPs), often called rubber or plastic bullets, are used commonly in crowd-control settings. We find that these projectiles have caused significant morbidity and mortality during the past 27 years ...'
You don’t fancy breaking it down to how many Tories put their name to this anywhere in the article?
Yeah, like the Americans are not just going to buy it from someone else. It will make zero difference to protestors, but will cost UK jobs. I suppose it will make MP's feel more moral though and that is what is important.
this is the kind of response canada needs to send loud and clear. kneel all you want. but if you don't actually make it hurt, you haven't done anything about it
Hypocrites.. No problem deploying them in Belfast and Derry for decades.
51 years it took youse to work it out that rubber bullets were murder. Well done.
Cam america not send us chlorinated chicken
There is a certain irony in Sinn Fein calling for a ban on exporting tear gas and rubber bullets - Armalites and semtex on the other hand is fine 👍🏻
Yet nothing from this sickening government.
unfortunatalie rather pathetically small number, I mean the SNP gotta be 1/4 of this
Well I suppose they have tanks planes and machine guns. Not thought it through have you emily
If gov do not declare they are stopping, every one of those MPs should resign and force a by election. There is a pretty damn important ethical and moral situation here. Let's see how that goes.
Weapons, it won't happen
Femi_Sorry Only 166, of over 600!
No. Shoot them. A protest is a protest. An excuse to riot is different.
GNaomiMartin Given the illegal exports to Saudi no surprise it's only 166 and no shock Conservatives are desperate to block access to the Courts.
Femi_Sorry So they can buy them from China instead?
But it's perfectly fine to sell live ammo to other countries...
So which 'nice' govts is it ok to export to?
Femi_Sorry 484 MP’s don’t mind though, that’s the problem
Boris wont stop trumps his best friend
Femi_Sorry I agree, they should stop exporting them because they would need it in the U.K. the way things are going
... and weapons to Saudi co-alition.
You went to a party at the local county jail Tony. ?
bellacaledonia Unfortunately that leaves almost 500 that didn't
fulelo Thank you whoever you are!
But there still happy to import goods from China Korea and France
I wonder what Johnson's reply will be?
AngusMacNeilSNP We should boycott the US and all it exports, if it was any other country it would have happened by now.
Good. Because we have a dire shortage here. It's obvious by the inaction.
Dont recall such opposition to exporting them to the North of Ireland.
Usual Suspects, not news... Failed VirtueSignalling
shuristan CPhilpOfficial would be good to know why your name is missing from this, especially considering you emailed me to say you had already raised your concerns with the Department of International Trade?
I see... what should police around the world use when they're confronted by violent offenders? Armed offenders? Rioters etc? Harsh words? Somehow, I think even that would be too far for some people.
JohnGlenUK would like your views on this please.
I see... and what should police use around the world when they're confronted by violent offenders? Armed offenders? Rioters etc? Harsh words? Somehow, I think even that would be too far for some people.
If we did stop would this cause an economical hit? Would people lose their jobs? Could businesses go under?
about time too
ChrisLawSNP disappointed to not see your name on this
Let’s also stop the export of hammers and crowbars cos rioters and looters use them. Idiots.
MarcusJBall Of course they want to stop exporting them to the US. If they divert to Saudi Arabia they will get thrice the pay back and no coverage.
DerekThomasUK I didn’t see your name on this, will you be signing?
Those 166 MPs should be aware that we are living in an age where law and order is slowly but surely breaking down in western societies. Law and order officers may need those tools from time to time.
Pathetic How big is the gov majority
But Putin told Boris he had to, otherwise the kompromat gets released. TrumpsJealousOfObama BorisHasFailedUK
Wow, the UK doing an about face on a long time ally? I wonder how this will go.
It's OK we'll sell to China, Russia, several Eastern European countries and Iran instead always going to be a demand for non lethal crowd control.
Hands up all who think Trumppet BorisJohnson 10DowningStreet will do so? Getting a crap trade deal is far more important that such a trifling thing as morality
The UK shouldn't be exporting tyranny.
Valerie_VazMP disappointed to see you’re not on the list...
These MPs are scum. Vote. Them. Out.
People blinded and hands blown off in France, silence from these useful idiots... Macron can do no wrong in their eyes but Trump is the Devil...
Can you named who aren’t? Pretty sure I can guess lol
Keep it going and get bombs banned from being sold to kill kids in Yemen and all the other countries
AlbertoCostaMP disappointed to see your name isn’t listed
Why?..
Johnson doesn't give a toss about the UK population, so there's no chance this will happen, either.
police should just leave them to it and see what happens when they are no longer the first line of defence between criminals and general public.
Good idea. We are going to need everything for use in the UK.
And here’s me thinking the whole Brexit argument was about the “fact” that the only nations that did any business with us was EU member states & no one else.
Then they'll just buy them from somewhere else? This achieves absolutely nothing...
Silly reactionary politics, if they don't buy them from us, they will buy them from somewhere else. It's not about procurement it's about their use.
Mark_J_Harper will you be commenting on this?
UK Country that has a stockpile of rubber bullets & tear gas! But NO worthy PPE....Typical Tory Gov.
You do realise that the manufacture of these NON LETHAL weapons actually saves lives as they are designed to be NON LETHAL when used during periods of violent protest? Also realise this is just an anti-Trump gesture
All parties? How many from the Tory party?
Grateful to the 166 MPs.
I don't see your name on this list, Jochurchill4 Unlike many, you're in a position where you can effect tangible change in people's lives. Money is not the only measure of a country's success. MP silence doesn't help anyone.
Seeing their is 206 labour MP'S I find this upsetting it's so low!
How about just an end to violent protests 🤷♂️
From how many?
Does the UK have any moral fibre?
You would think they would be pleased we were exporting! MPs now seem to think it is wrong for police in America to have the means to protect themselves. These things are not used against peaceful protesters but, against rioters,looters and murderers.
Happy to send them all the CS Gas, flash bangs and rubber bullets they need.
Pointless virtue signalling. Let them all never ride in vehicles because the oil is from Saudi where being gay is illegal.
Why did that not happen for Chile paulayara? The UK exports stuff used on protestors to many countries. Maybe you want to get in touch with the writer of that article and point to the bigger picture?
If one of those 166 MPs isn't Boris 'not so casual racist' Johnson then it will never happen..
Is there a reason you’re not on this list? Offord4Hendon do you support the use of tear gas and rubber bullets on innocent civilians who are protesting?
166 morons, not as bad as I thought.
‘Only’ 166
Don't understand why we are selling Trump 'tear gas' when he produces a far higher quality version of his own . . .
Let me guess, the left wing and greens? Well at least they're predicatable
Remember when that absolute joke trussliz admitted the U.K. broke the ban on Saudi Arms deals at LEAST three times? She approved illegal arms sales which killed innocent civilians and she’s STILL IN A FUCKING JOB.
NO keep the sales to the US, what you should be concentrating on is why saudisoveriegnwealthfund is paying for over 500 mosques in the UK,
Oh wait a minute is this to piss the US off so they won’t trade with us, so we crawl back to the EU? Desperate remainers the lot of them I bet.
Does that mean 484 think it's OK?
sianberry What about Saudi/Yemen mass slaughter?
Got a feeling the UK police force may need their riot gear soon
duncancbaker don’t see your name on there 👀
EstherMcVey1 Are you on this?
So that only leaves around 500 MPs who don't support this move. Good.
Unless the MPs signing this letter can show me a similar letter regarding exports to France. I will call them what they are, shameless hypocrites
A tiny bit of a quarter of MPs. This is not news.
Too late. We exported the techniques learnt in N Ireland back in 1971, e.g. General Frank Kitson's book
If they stop exports it’ll mean job cuts. Then I suppose will then blame the Torricelli for unemployment.
Thank you Bambos_MP
Really-sell arms to the most dangerous regimes in the world-but not to another democracy similar to ours-this is such hogwash-virtue signalling at best-do you really think us not selling to them will make the slightest bit of difference-no-they will manufacture their own or buy
The US is our greatest friend. Trump a great President. We need to support them against the terrorists.
Should be using them our selves after some of the atrocious behaviour of those so called protesters in lonfon this week.
Why only 166?
But it’s fine to sell fighter planes and deadly missiles to Saudi Arabia still! Hmmm
What a stupid kneejerk reaction this is trade that we need ffs
So not they'll use real bullets and napalm?
Nonsense virtue signalling. Multiple officers and other innocents have already been killed in the riots. Along with hundreds if not thousands of businesses destroyed. Disgusting request to try and stop an ally maintaing civil society for political reasons.
Yes, I mean, we should really do our upmost to help initiate another civil war
But mostly Lefty scum ones!
Shameful that it's not 650.
So 166 MPs want to decrease the income of £££. If we stop song then they will buy them elsewhere.
Are will still selling jets to Saudi Arabia that bomb people in Yemen?
Like this corrupt and rotten gov would do anything but kiss Trump's arse
you sure it wasn't 666 or 911 or 119 or 33?
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We can't do that we're swapping them for clorinatedchickens toryshambles
Yep let's just throw sponges at the rioters lol
Watch on, as this makes not one jot of difference. Britain is in a servile role to Trump now - begging for a trade deal to wave in front of a Covid-scarrred nation come January
Americans have plenty of real bullets to use instead.
How about not arming ISIS in Syria or not helping the Saudi's in their genocide in Yemen?
Other 486 MPs are happy with war crimes
Why do MPs always seem to have it in for the US and Trump whilst remaining indifferent to the actions of the Saudi state, Chinese state, Israeli state, etc, as well as the suppression of dissent and freedom of speech in our own country?
.JuliaLopezMP
These are non lethal means to contain riots, get rid of these the only other option is deadly force ? Are MPs really supporting that, can we have their names?
Are they all Labour MP s
MassimoFaggioli Hilarious. As if we relied on England.
Pax Americana!
Where else are we selling stuff like this to? Pretty sure there are some unsavoury regimes in there.
But weapons of war are one of Britain's few remaining cash cow industries. We get rich while innocent people around the world suffer and die....
While you're at it, also stop exports to Israel, unless Palestinian lives don't count as much as American lives ...
'We call on the UK Government to immediately suspend all export licenses to the US of all riot- related items,' write MPs from the Labour party, the Conservatives, SNP, Liberal Democrats, Greens, Sinn Fein, Alliance, and SDLP
484 MPs do not. I think that is more worthy of investigation.
Please do stop those exports
I wonder whereabouts in the UK they have been used en masse?
Damn right! We need them here...
Stop all arms sales period.
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