My local Provisional Sinn Fein MEP, Mary-Lou McDonald has called for tighter restrictions on the sale of arms:

‘The EU Code of Conduct must be strengthened immediately, to prevent further abuses of human rights, especially in countries with questionable human rights records. Recent reports have shown that loopholes in the Code of Conduct have allowed weapons to be supplied to regimes such as China, Burma and Malaysia in this last year.’

Readers from abroad should note that Mary-Lou’s party is the political counterpart of the Provisional IRA, which smuggled guns from all over the place to kill civilians and carry out punishment shootings in Northern Ireland. Check out their online shop, where you can buy your IRA t-shirts