I can really imagine the French ripping their hair out and wearing sack-cloth and ashes. (This is not a dig at them).
What is it about this country? When in Rome . . .
It's a no-brainer, if we don't sell stuff, someone else will. I'd rather keep Brits in a job than someone else.
Is it moral - probably not - then tell me when arms sales of any description are moral. One of man's greatest skills is inventing more ways of killing each other.
Our weapons used against us? Why not, that's been happening since the Romans traded weapons with their trading partners.
As it says in Ecclesiastes 'there's nothing new under the sun'.