THE EU Parliament will be voting next week to provide billions of euros as subsidies to the arms industry.
The arms industry is one of the wealthiest in the world, profiting from death, including of civilians.
Only recently the EU voted for arms sanctions against Saudi Arabia because of their crimes against humanity (including using British-made weapons to commit war crimes).
The EU should be working to reduce the arms industry, but is now proposing to subsidise the manufacturers of murder and misery.
You have an opportunity to take action to prevent this, and I urge you to write to your MEPs telling that they must vote against the obscenity of using public money to support research into arms.
Arms that will lead to more refugees, more suffering and more death.
Please write to your MEP today.
Tom Franklin, Frazer Court, York
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