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UK quietly drops ‘human rights’ and ‘rule of law’ from goals in Gulf trade deal
- bwanab 4y agoIf ‘rule of law’ isn’t built into a deal, how can the deal be thought to be enforceable? Asking for a friend.
- fuzzfactor 4y agoI met the dude myself. I guess we're all going to have to expect unruliness to prevail.
- dflock 4y agoWell, given their record, it would be rather hypocritical of the current UK government to demand these things from other governments.
- niknoble 4y agoWould the Gulf states even consider making the UK conform to Islamic morality as part of a trade agreement? The Western world seems to be unique in its insistence that other cultures adopt our morals, even though other cultures are presumably just as confident in the rightness of their own way of life.