Originally Posted by
melmothtw
And the Tory party has sold its soul to Russian oligarchs while King Charles (or Prince, as he was then) takes million pound bungs from Arabs in plastic shopping bags, which all kind of goes to Bob's point about calling out these individual pilots just looking out for their financial futures when the issue is much more systemic than that, and clearly driven by those at the highest levels of power in this country.
Those who call out the ethical and moral bankruptcy of state level actions like the ones you mentioned are also going to call it out at a personal level. And as former military officers, you would expect those who chose to go to China to be as philosophical as they are nonplussed about being called out