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Aid is spent on Pakistan's online banking.
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http://www.dailymail....s-online-banking.html
Is this the way Britain's increasing overseas aid is spent?
/// The Coalition defended the spending, saying that more than one billion people in developing countries have a mobile but do not have a bank account. ///
I have news for them, millions of people in the UK, neither have a mobile or a bank account.
Is this the way Britain's increasing overseas aid is spent?
/// The Coalition defended the spending, saying that more than one billion people in developing countries have a mobile but do not have a bank account. ///
I have news for them, millions of people in the UK, neither have a mobile or a bank account.
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The objective is to encourage economic development in these countries - there is in fact an estimated long term benefit to us in that and more immediately, UK firms and consultants are no doubt benefiting from this project and this funding.
The percentage of mobiles and bank accounts in this country is totally irrelevant to this - there is also a project to supply people in the thirld world with cows. Perhaps the OP thinks that should be stopped too because lots of Brits don't have one yet?
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The percentage of mobiles and bank accounts in this country is totally irrelevant to this - there is also a project to supply people in the thirld world with cows. Perhaps the OP thinks that should be stopped too because lots of Brits don't have one yet?
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Yet our came home funding (amongst a million other things) is in crisis, but we can afford to help pakistan amongst others.
These countries will continue to take us for the mugs we are, and will happily take our money as long as we have gormless politicians who are happy to put others outside of our nation first.
They must be peeing themselve laughing at our crass stupidity
Absolutely disgraceful
These countries will continue to take us for the mugs we are, and will happily take our money as long as we have gormless politicians who are happy to put others outside of our nation first.
They must be peeing themselve laughing at our crass stupidity
Absolutely disgraceful
AOG...(and others).....I do get annoyed about overseas aid.
If countries like Pakistan and India can find the money for Nuclear programmes; why do they need us to contribute to their economy.?
The way that our country dishes-out aid results in situations such as Tata taking over our country's steel industry.!!!
Ron.
If countries like Pakistan and India can find the money for Nuclear programmes; why do they need us to contribute to their economy.?
The way that our country dishes-out aid results in situations such as Tata taking over our country's steel industry.!!!
Ron.
"Well according to your argument; because of all the Overseas Aid we were giving to the Dutch obviously."
Nonsense, I never implied that.... Zeuhl,I merely asked a question which you failed to answer.
Anyway I do not wish to become involved in an argument with you. So will say Ta ta for now.:-)
Ron.
Nonsense, I never implied that.... Zeuhl,I merely asked a question which you failed to answer.
Anyway I do not wish to become involved in an argument with you. So will say Ta ta for now.:-)
Ron.
To answer your question Ron (though it is off topic i suppose) British Steel was merged with the Dutch because it came a cropper in the global steel markets.
This was probably a combination of geography, pricing/lack of competitiveness, investments in wrong types of steel and other factors ...
... but not i suspect due to our provision of overseas aid.
This was probably a combination of geography, pricing/lack of competitiveness, investments in wrong types of steel and other factors ...
... but not i suspect due to our provision of overseas aid.
To answer the question of British Steel i think some old Lady flogged it.
memory, can play tricks. By the time the usually steely-eyed Lady Thatcher made her tearful departure in November 1990, one in four of the population owned shares and more than 40 former state-owned businesses had been privatised, a process which affected more than 600,000 workers in former nationalised industries.
memory, can play tricks. By the time the usually steely-eyed Lady Thatcher made her tearful departure in November 1990, one in four of the population owned shares and more than 40 former state-owned businesses had been privatised, a process which affected more than 600,000 workers in former nationalised industries.
A bit late because the thread has digressed somewhat. I may be wrong, Zeuhl, but I believe there's quite a good long term benefit to this country in educating our children. However, large numbers of children in the UK are attending schools with leaky roofs or inadequate heating, or have to attend "failing" schools because the decent ones are over-subscribed. Then, of course, there’s the increased university fee issue.
There is, apparently, no money in the education budget to effect repairs or to improve standards or to keep fees down because the said budget (at £89bn) has remained static for three years and has thus been devalued by inflation. Meanwhile the overseas aid budget has suffered no such strictures and is due to rise by 35% in the next few years.
If the Coalition is so keen to fund some long term benefits for the UK it might start by looking a little closer to home.
There is, apparently, no money in the education budget to effect repairs or to improve standards or to keep fees down because the said budget (at £89bn) has remained static for three years and has thus been devalued by inflation. Meanwhile the overseas aid budget has suffered no such strictures and is due to rise by 35% in the next few years.
If the Coalition is so keen to fund some long term benefits for the UK it might start by looking a little closer to home.
Zeuhl I agree we are now 'off topic' but it often happens in AB.
I often get frustrated by the way UK Politicians behave and you are right in what you have said about the reason for Holland having gained a large interest in the UK steel industry.
In the 1960s I worked at Port Talbot Docks where steel coils were being imported from Russia and being processed by the local steel works into steel sheets for return to the USSR, whilst they were building Cold Rolling Mills. It was a short term policy to assist another country; whereas I think it would have been better just to have supplied steel sheets which had been fully made in the UK.
Ron.
I often get frustrated by the way UK Politicians behave and you are right in what you have said about the reason for Holland having gained a large interest in the UK steel industry.
In the 1960s I worked at Port Talbot Docks where steel coils were being imported from Russia and being processed by the local steel works into steel sheets for return to the USSR, whilst they were building Cold Rolling Mills. It was a short term policy to assist another country; whereas I think it would have been better just to have supplied steel sheets which had been fully made in the UK.
Ron.
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