The Great Cluster F**k
The Independent has reported that RBS (that is Royal Bank of Scotland) has finally severed all ties with the manufacturers of cluster bombs. This after the same newspaper reported that they were connected to manufacturers in the first place.
For those of you who don't know, a cluster bomb is either dropped from the air or ground detonated and when they explode they send out smaller munitions or 'bomblets' to cover a large area and cause maximum damage to buildings and (sadly) people in the surrounding area. A convention was signed and ratified by 108 and 60 states respectively in Dublin in 2008 that came into force in 2010 to ban the use of these weapons because of the cripplingly destructive nature of them to innocent people.
It has long been known that bankers and investment companies have links with weapons manufacturers. How else would the Western World be able to accuse people of having weapons unless they actually fund/sell the weapons to them in the first place? Seriously though, this has long been going on. However, something that is so destructive cannot be in the public interest. Is this why we passed over millions of pounds of tax payers' money to bail RBS out? So that innocent people would continue to be blown to bits by this hideous weapon.
I suppose we should expect this sort of thing from our banks. The lot of them have been f***ing us up the behind for years now, so why on earth would they not think twice about funding/investing in weapons to blow up and mutilate innocent men, women and children. It is so easy to sit in your big comfy office in central London and not think about the causes of your actions, but it comes to something when a national newspaper causes you to all of a sudden form a conscience.
This is not a victory for The Independent and neither is it a way of RBS saving face now. This sort of thing should not be happening in the first place. When the banking crisis hit the UK we were promised a full review of banking practices and that the banks would be held to account. Isn't it time we truly took a look at the dark underbelly of the banking world and truly held them to account? Perhaps we haven't because we are scared of what we might find...
For those of you who don't know, a cluster bomb is either dropped from the air or ground detonated and when they explode they send out smaller munitions or 'bomblets' to cover a large area and cause maximum damage to buildings and (sadly) people in the surrounding area. A convention was signed and ratified by 108 and 60 states respectively in Dublin in 2008 that came into force in 2010 to ban the use of these weapons because of the cripplingly destructive nature of them to innocent people.
It has long been known that bankers and investment companies have links with weapons manufacturers. How else would the Western World be able to accuse people of having weapons unless they actually fund/sell the weapons to them in the first place? Seriously though, this has long been going on. However, something that is so destructive cannot be in the public interest. Is this why we passed over millions of pounds of tax payers' money to bail RBS out? So that innocent people would continue to be blown to bits by this hideous weapon.
I suppose we should expect this sort of thing from our banks. The lot of them have been f***ing us up the behind for years now, so why on earth would they not think twice about funding/investing in weapons to blow up and mutilate innocent men, women and children. It is so easy to sit in your big comfy office in central London and not think about the causes of your actions, but it comes to something when a national newspaper causes you to all of a sudden form a conscience.
This is not a victory for The Independent and neither is it a way of RBS saving face now. This sort of thing should not be happening in the first place. When the banking crisis hit the UK we were promised a full review of banking practices and that the banks would be held to account. Isn't it time we truly took a look at the dark underbelly of the banking world and truly held them to account? Perhaps we haven't because we are scared of what we might find...
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