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Saudi risks ‘revolution’ over basic rights: UK MP
[PRESSTV] Soddy Arabia...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual hajj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. When the oil runs out the rest of the world is going to kick sand in the Soddy national face... will eventually face a "revolution" unless it decides to introduce reforms and stop abusing people’s freedom of expression, a British politician has warned the kingdom. Crispin Blunt, a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) and chair of a parliamentary panel on detained Saudi women activists, advised Riyadh leaders to realize that a civil society was a necessity to save their monarchy system of government. "The alternative to a consultative monarchy is an absolute monarchy and down that route lies disaster and eventually revolution," the MP wrote in an op-ed for The Independent published on Thursday. The politician (pictured below) leads a detention review panel (DRP) of British MPs who have called on Riyadh to let them meet with women’s rights activists the kingdom has placed in durance vile Youse'll never take me alive coppers!... [BANG!]... Ow!... I quit! as part of its longstanding crackdown against proponents of civil rights reforms. Posted by: Fred 2019-01-18 |
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