Revealed after a Freedom of Information request:
“I bet you never thought that one of the duties of a foreign minister is to act as an arms dealer for private companies to dodgy governments, or that Royal Navy warships act as floating sales offices for arms-deals. But last June, Hugo Swire MP, a foreign office minister, had a week-long trip to Latin America, which included a stop in Colombia to act as an official weapons salesman for arms firm BAE Systems.
The meeting—part of which took place on a Royal Navy ship—was revealed earlier this year. Full details of the event were supplied to me last month under the Freedom of Information Act.” …
” … The documents say the ship was there for “defense and security exports.” With help from the UK’s government-run arms sales unit, called “UK Trade and Industry Defence & Security Organisation,” Hugo Swire used the ship to push the proposed deal. In the papers released to me, The British Ambassador to Colombia, Lindsay Croisdale-Appleby says, “the visiting HMS Portland gave a spectacular setting for an evening reception for senior members of the Colombian navy and defense ministry.” At the meeting, “The minister highlighted a proposal by BAE Systems to supply Ocean Patrol Vessels to the Colombian Navy.”
http://www.vice.com/read/a-british-defence-minister-acted-as-an-arms-dealer-to-colombia-849
Yes, we all know that arms dealing takes place – but do government ministers have to be the salesmen and the Royal Navy has to be used as a sales office?
East Devon Watch 
I bet old You go gets a good commission as well!!?
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