Just like Russia, the UK has a sordid history of using chemical weapons on its own people

IN 1964, scientists from the Government’s Ronald Madison, a 20-year-old Royal The good cause, presumably being chemical and biological warfare Air Force engineer, died as a result of the profits made by British defence research centre at Porton Down carried exposure to the nerve agent sarin at companies in deals with Saddam out a covert biological warfare field Porton Down in 1953. Experiments of Hussein and their complicity in the trial in London’s Underground system. this nature continued at Porton Down manufacture and deadly use of Iraq’s Apparently, there were 750 similar until 1989. chemical weapons throughout the

covert operations carried out in the UK Now, along comes an incident where 1980s. using the British public as unknowing an ex-Russian spy and his daughter are But let’s pretend that Russia is the guinea pigs. poisoned with a nerve agent, and we’re problem and protect the criminals at In 2008, the Ministry of Defence was meant to fear the Russians. home who profit from inhumane norms

ordered to pay Porton Down veterans We’re meant to just accept that our and practices. £3m in compensation for chemical tests own country, the UK, will randomly they were tricked into taking part in poison us from time to time, as long as LOUIS SHAWCROSS during the 1950s and 1960s. it’s all in a good cause. Hillsborough, Co Down