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UpTheDuff said:
As a neutral the backlash about human rights just seems a bit off and hypocritical to me. People seem to forget that the Saudi PIF have been pumping cash into Man U and have sizeable stakes in Facebook and Uber.

Do I think half of London, developments in other cities, and chunks of our strategic infrastructure should be owned by the Saudis and other murderous regimes? No. But it is and as long as our country is fine with that, and people are happy to sell weapons to the Saudis etc to use in Yemen etc then I see no justification for making an exception of Newcastle United.

I gather there is a BAE Systems weapons factory just off the A1M at Washington. I assume those on here complaining about the Newcastle takeover are up there protesting against BAE making weapons for the Saudis and other similar countries?
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If the Saudi regime owned at ran facebook and Uber I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole, but they don't, they own the Mags.

I also don't think weapons made here should be sold to Saudi, but it seems a step further allowing them to own our institutes and sporting clubs. The people of Newcastle weren't outside BAE celebrating their deals with Saudi and waving flags, declaring it a new era of greatness.
 
Botchie said:
They said when the deal was announced that Ashley's sponsorship deal was staying in place. Yet another alarm bell the gullible twats have chosen to ignore.
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I have it on good authority that Ashley has set this up to fail and will buy the club back at a discount when it does. He loaned the money to Stavely, he put Bruce’s compensation up to 8 million and had the deal written so he keeps all his advertising.
 
How many of the mags waving Saudi flags understand that the writing above the sabre (which is there to demonstrate the militant nature of the Islamic faith) means:

“There is no god but God; Muhammad is the prophet of God.”

How many of them would wear a t shirt with that on the front of it?
 
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