Etihad Campus, Stadium and Collar Site Development Thread

remember arthur mann said:
I thought she was talking about America.
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Since when has Abu Dhabi had an appalling human rights record? It is one of the most liberal countries in the Middle East. Is she getting it mixed up with Saudi Arabia? Amnesty doesn't even mention the UAE in its latest human rights annual report but it does cite the USA, Russia, China and lots of other places including the UK and Australia.
Does the BBC just lump all Arabic countries in together in a racist narrative. No one is suggesting Abu Dhabi has a perfect record on human rights but it is absurd to single it out. It is not regarded globally as an exceptionally bad regime. The UAE is the UK's closest ally in the Gulf region and a major trade partner. This sort of coverage is disgraceful and distorted.

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Always thought Annabell Triffid was OK but to deliver a cheap shot line like that set up nicely by a contrived mention into who financed the new arena was a slimy shithousery spiteful thing to do when there could have been more positive things or even more objective things to say. Obviously written by a green eyed monster of a rag who can’t move on.
 
Gone for a Burton said:
Who the hell is this woman ?

I’m surprised the Government hasn’t told the Biased Bastard Collective to cut out this onslaught of bias,misreporting,misrepresentation and selective racism against a long standing allie.

I truly hope that there will be a day of profound reckoning....revenge is dish best served cold ....or the mayor of Hiroshima “what the fuck was that” !!
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I wouldn’t get too worked up about it. If you look at a country’s all-time human rights record then Britain itself doesn’t look good in comparison to UAE or many other countries. It’s just our westernised agnostic opinion that all countries should be like us now and not like we used to be.
 
Bluemanc100 said:
Yes… Burnham said something along the lines of “we’re quite vocal about our concerns regarding the issue”
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Did Burnham mention the UK's own Human Rights concerns such as the ongoing investigation into the murder of civilians in Afghanistan (following the torture and murders in Iraq); or the illegal deportations of Windrush generation citizens; or the attempted illegal deportations of migrants to Rwanda, or even the police cover-up over the Stephen Lawrence murder; reparations for our abuses in Northern Ireland including jailing people without trial: or demands for slavery reparations; or just the thousands of cases of migrant workers here being exploited on farms, or picking cockles, or working in backstreet sweatshops; or perhaps the fact we are one of the world's biggest arms dealers and our biggest customer (here in Lancashire) is Saudi Arabia! Hypocrisy and double standards.
 
Bluemanc100 said:
Annabel Tiffin asked Burnham whether the City should be taking money for an arena from a nation with an appalling human rights record..... hypocrisy to slag off Abu Dhabi / CFG then take the money
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Strangely the question was aimed at someone who probably had fck all to do with anything regards the whole project and was only there for a free lunch.
Would be so funny if someone from the UAE was to ask her what she meant by the question. She'd shit herself.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Did Burnham mention the UK's own Human Rights concerns such as the ongoing investigation into the murder of civilians in Afghanistan (following the torture and murders in Iraq); or the illegal deportations of Windrush generation citizens; or the attempted illegal deportations of migrants to Rwanda, or even the police cover-up over the Stephen Lawrence murder; reparations for our abuses in Northern Ireland including jailing people without trial: or demands for slavery reparations; or just the thousands of cases of migrant workers here being exploited on farms, or picking cockles, or working in backstreet sweatshops; or perhaps the fact we are one of the world's biggest arms dealers and our biggest customer (here in Lancashire) is Saudi Arabia! Hypocrisy and double standards.
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Calm down, calm down!

In your defence, you missed people burning to death in unsafe flats, excess covid deaths, misappropriation of public purse on an industrial scale, record levels of child poverty, and ...erm ... think weve made our point.
 
bobbyowenquiff said:
Did Burnham mention the UK's own Human Rights concerns such as the ongoing investigation into the murder of civilians in Afghanistan (following the torture and murders in Iraq); or the illegal deportations of Windrush generation citizens; or the attempted illegal deportations of migrants to Rwanda, or even the police cover-up over the Stephen Lawrence murder; reparations for our abuses in Northern Ireland including jailing people without trial: or demands for slavery reparations; or just the thousands of cases of migrant workers here being exploited on farms, or picking cockles, or working in backstreet sweatshops; or perhaps the fact we are one of the world's biggest arms dealers and our biggest customer (here in Lancashire) is Saudi Arabia! Hypocrisy and double standards.
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No because the question was centred around Abu Dhabi investment so I would expect his response to that and not go off on a tangent like some people on here
 
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