How the other half live

Eleven princes in Saudi Arabia are paying the price for complaining about having to pay utility bills for the first time in their lives.
They have been arrested for protesting with a palace sit-in, after a royal decree ended the state's payment of water and electricity bills for royal family members.
Perhaps not the wisest of moves, given the fate of scores of other royal princes arrested for suspected corruption and held in custody in a hotel last year.
Saudi Arabia is under new management, so to speak, since the accession to power of a new Crown Prince.

Sounds like a great opportunity to increase our weapons sales to Saudi Arabia, possible 11 new customers.

They wouldn’t be able to afford it now they have to pay their own bills

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Originally Posted by jones20

They wouldn’t be able to afford it now they have to pay their own bills

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I suppose we could do " Buy one get one Free ", plus free cinema tickets.

They just have to make sure they don’t wash their colours with their whites

My heart blleds for the poor Souls. How the hell will they manage to live now. Alway hard to get money off people who have it!

Surely we Brits can't stand by and let this happen we'll have set up an aid package.

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Originally Posted by rob davies

Surely we Brits can't stand by and let this happen we'll have set up an aid package.

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Already doing it through existing long term packages out of the Foreign Aid Allocation!

Isn't it shocking! I was also reading about British imprisoned in Saudi for the most ridiculous reasons. One man for sending a whatsapp to a car-dealer who'd badly scammed him. Sold a car that had been written off. The offensive text was something along the lines of "how can you live with yourself". Another for possessing home-made wine, one for touching someone's hip in a bar etc. The awful thing about these stories is the people victimised are left with huge debt, their bank accounts are frozen (and emptied), lose their jobs and a multitude of other financial penalties. They can barely recover financially. If the article below is accurate then it beggars belief that these two contrasts exist.

What’s illegal over there and what they in prison foreigners for they come over to the U.K. and do exactly the same thing they gamble they drink and they hire prostitutues and then claim diplomatic immunity if they get caught doing something which is contrary to Uk law

Having watched the second episode of the house of Saud BBC 2 listing Saudi as the most corrupt nation in the world what struck me most was the fact that a number of our own government officials ex prime ministers included have got to be included in that category it was unbelievable what they done to prevent the serious fraud squad investigating these allegations of bribes between BEA systems and Saudi