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Ric.ror | 08:25 Mon 11th Nov 2013 | News
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Isn't it a time such as this that India should say 'thank you UK but we don't need your aid so we shall give it to the Philippines' ?
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Devastation - sorry on phone
Someone has got to pay for India's space program and their rocket to go to Mars, why not us.
How do you know they don't??

Our aid to India will stop shortly anyway soon.
India’s own aid programme to overseas countries is worth £328 million a year, more than the £280 million annual Britain grant to the country.

Britain receives aid from the Geneva Based Red Cross. Maybe we should send that to Philippines
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Yes perhaps we should
Ummmm I suspect that if India was sending U.K. aid to the Philippines we would have heard about it by now
If not they are missing an important PR opportunity
But isn't the problem logistics in this case, not a shortage of aid?

Agree with your sentiment though.

So what is this Red Cross Aid to Britain? Is it to Britain or to the British Red Cross?

And if India pays out 328 m in aid but we pay 280m then teo questions have to be asked.

1) Why dont we just pay the net (if we must pay) and pay the rest to countries that need it (if we must)
2) 280m is of course the UK donation, how much are they coining in from other countries?
I can't see any reason whatsoever why Britain should give aid to a country where there is so much money sloshing around, that they can send a rocket to Mars, instead of improving the lot of the millions of their own citizens who are living in abject poverty. Its just daft.
they have already said they don't need our aid.

We have already said we're stopping it.

Keep up.
//so much money sloshing around//

India's Mars mission cost pence per individual in India

Equivilent to 300m of HS2 - 3.5 hours of Running the NHS - one eigthieth of an Aircraft carrier

Possibly the cheapest space mission ever run

It's a lot of money for an individual to have - but for a space shot it was fabulouly cheap!
thank you Ric.ror for raising this news item on AnswerBank, this was the most horrific natural disaster in living memory, and not one of us can imagine what these poor people of the Philippines are going through they have lost everything and there is no where for them to go.

Britain has pledged £6m, and also further hands on aid.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24886806

We can only hope that the rest of the world joins in to try and help these poor people out of the state of total devastation they now find themselves in?

Some have mentioned India's space programme, and this along with other's such programmes, including the manufacture of nuclear weapons designed to destroy our very existence on this Earth, makes one wonder WHY?

Nature is so much more powerful than Man will ever be,and we should be using our time and money combating nature.

I may be going on a little but I feel very strongly over this, and going back to the various space programmes and all the junk that we send into space, caused me to remember my far off school days and what our Science master once told us, and that was that if we reduced the weight of the earth by just a few pounds, it would have tragic circumstances on the finely balanced natural forces on this Earth.

Makes one think doesn't it?
obviously nobody safe in bed in the UK has noticed, but India was hit by a cyclone itself a couple of weeks ago. Half a million left homeless

http://www.christiantoday.com/article/more.than.500000.homeless.in.india.after.cyclone.phailin/34412.htm

But why would India feel the need to go to Mars ? The Yanks are doing it for us all...let them waste their money if they wish. India has more pressing problems to deal with.
hmmm I dont think states do that sort of thing
Jake the peg from your post you have been taken in

Accounts (except cash flow accounts which always truthe)
can be made to say anything
As soon as you said fabulously cheap
I realised the costing had off loaded everything they could to some other capital or income account

so that if all the space team are army then their wages comes from the costs of the sstanding army as they would have to be paid anyway.

damned by your own words - fabulous.... as in a fable...

why would Britain need aircraft carriers? Are we planning to invade anyone where the US wouldn't help? Let's stop building them and give the money to our own poor.

Alternatively, let's accept that states have a lot of things on the go at the same time.
aog //Science master once told us, and that was that if we reduced the weight of the earth by just a few pounds, it would have tragic circumstances on the finely balanced natural forces on this Earth.//

Was he joking ? We have blasted off tons of material into outer space . Way beyond it having any affect on the earth, by its absence or by its presence elsewhere.

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/// Was he joking ? We have blasted off tons of material into outer space . Way beyond it having any affect on the earth, by its absence or by its presence elsewhere. ///

No he was not, but in those far off years when I attended school no one knew that we would one day be capable of blasting such objects out into space.

That was the whole point I was trying to convey, noting such extreme natural changes we have come to see, generally blamed on global Warming etc, who could say that there wasn't a little truth in those far off beliefs?
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'they have already said they don't need our aid'

Good they won't mind sending it on then

'We have already said we're stopping it'

Stopping but not stopped

'Keep up'
No I did not know about the cyclone in India - I don't seem to remember anything about this on the news - which is either my fault (quite possible) or the fault of the media (again quite possible)
Send every penny of MPs expenses,Bankers Bonuses ,overseas aids etc to the Philippines now ,DO IT NOW DAVE ,WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER .

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