What a King does to satisfy his ego

As the people of Bahrain worry about what tomorrow will bring, King Hamad was only too happy to give away his people’s wealth to see his name appear on the Hall of a British School.

Such act of grand generosity has been however lost on the people of Bahrain, as the King’s kindness only extends to outside the kingdom. 

Bahrain royals have made a habit of wasting the kingdom’s wealth, keen to serve their taste for luxury while the people scrap and suffer in the dirt.

Back in February 2013 an uproar erupted in both Bahrain and Britain when news broke out that Mons Hall, named after the 1914 battle that saw thousands killed, will be renamed the King Hamad Hall after he gave £3 million towards its refurbishment.

Britain Defence chiefs were accused of betraying the memory of soldiers who gave their lives for their country and MPs questioned the ethics of honouring regimes that have dubious human rights records.

Back then Andy Slaughter, Labour’s chairman of the Democracy In Bahrain all-party parliamentary group, said: “To change the name of something which commemorates a very tragic episode in British military history and an example of courage and heroism of British soldiers simply because they’re getting a sum of money from a rather dubious source is appalling.

“It reflects the appalling double standards the British Government and institutions have in relation to the Bahraini regime, which is guilty of all sorts of human rights abuses and fundamentally undemocratic."