Thursday, 10 November 2016

SNP MP Brendan O Hara Tightfisted Remembrance Day Expenses claims


 SNP politicians who criticised UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia haves received  hospitality from a trade association whose members include arms firms who sell to the Saudis.

ADS Group members include BAE Systems and Raytheon. BAE Systems has helped train the Saudi Arabian air force and provided it with fighter jets.
Smart bombs with laser guided systems made by Raytheon in Scotland were linked to an alleged war crime in Yemen.
The SNP’s defence spokesperson Brendan O’Hara confirmed he was also present at the June dinner.
He said: “At [the ADS’s] suggestion, and I agreed it was a good idea, they hosted a dinner in order that some of their individual company representatives (BAE Systems, Rolls Royce and others) could speak to me and a number of other SNP MPs, who had a direct constituency interest in defence, directly.”

 The SNP was criticised by the Scottish Greens recently after it emerged that Scotland’s enterprise agencies have given the defence industry £17m since 2007, despite the SNP’s public criticism of the arms trade.
When asked which other SNP MPs attended, neither Whitford’s spokesperson nor O’Hara responded.
Full article is here https://theferret.scot/snp-mps-hospitality-arms-companies-ads-group/
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This is petty and disgraceful tightfisted behaviour, nose well and truly in the trough.

"MPs ACCUSED 'low and disreputable' for claiming expenses at Remembrance Day services"
See the full article on this link here below 
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/729197/MPs-low-disreputable-Remembrance-Day-behaviour

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