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Can We Depend On Mrs May To Rip Up Cameron's Overseas Pledge, Which Costs Us Around £12Billion A Year?
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My goodness, we can but hope, although I doubt it. Overseas aid - the subject guaranteed to make my blood boil and the red mist descend. It mostly goes to the rat hole countries where the people are too backwards or too religious to drag themselves anywhere near the 21st Century, and so do nothing to help themselves. Remember the Ebola outbreak? People had to be...
13:55 Wed 13th Jul 2016
My goodness, we can but hope, although I doubt it.
Overseas aid - the subject guaranteed to make my blood boil and the red mist descend.
It mostly goes to the rat hole countries where the people are too backwards or too religious to drag themselves anywhere near the 21st Century, and so do nothing to help themselves.
Remember the Ebola outbreak? People had to be taught to wash their hands. And when the Syrian refugees began arriving, there were people showing them how to do certain things - one of those things being how to use a toilet.
And we give them aid money enabling them to breed even more!
When we have a country where nobody is waiting weeks for a doctors appointment/months for hospital treatment/choosing whether to eat or stay warm/using food banks/homelessness (that’ll do for now - feel free to add more to the list), then, and only then would I reconsider my opinion.
sp - why is AOG trolling? I think the trolling happens when AOG himself asks a question, and the usual suspects pop up and claim he’s being discriminatory, yet their opinion is the right one! You know the people I mean - they seem to join in on his threads just to attack him. (Hope I was O.K. to say that, AOG).
Overseas aid - the subject guaranteed to make my blood boil and the red mist descend.
It mostly goes to the rat hole countries where the people are too backwards or too religious to drag themselves anywhere near the 21st Century, and so do nothing to help themselves.
Remember the Ebola outbreak? People had to be taught to wash their hands. And when the Syrian refugees began arriving, there were people showing them how to do certain things - one of those things being how to use a toilet.
And we give them aid money enabling them to breed even more!
When we have a country where nobody is waiting weeks for a doctors appointment/months for hospital treatment/choosing whether to eat or stay warm/using food banks/homelessness (that’ll do for now - feel free to add more to the list), then, and only then would I reconsider my opinion.
sp - why is AOG trolling? I think the trolling happens when AOG himself asks a question, and the usual suspects pop up and claim he’s being discriminatory, yet their opinion is the right one! You know the people I mean - they seem to join in on his threads just to attack him. (Hope I was O.K. to say that, AOG).
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Our aid money just ends up with the likes of Gulfstream Aerospace, Raytheon, Cessna, Bombardier.
Amusingly, on the radio (4), some wag reported how the private jet which Cameron ordered was finally delivered, just days ago. I'm not sure if he ever got as far as trying the seats…
#shaadenfreude
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Our aid money just ends up with the likes of Gulfstream Aerospace, Raytheon, Cessna, Bombardier.
Amusingly, on the radio (4), some wag reported how the private jet which Cameron ordered was finally delivered, just days ago. I'm not sure if he ever got as far as trying the seats…
#shaadenfreude
"Just wait a couple of years until the economy tanks and we will be a second world country and won't have to pay. " - Cheers gromit, I knew you'd not let me down, the anti British stuff is still there.
Yes the G8 agreed it but I think we are the only mugs that pay it let alone statuted it! F|F|S, get real we give dosh to nuclear powers with a kin space program. Now if we actually gave it to those that needed it, it might not be so rediculous but it goes mostly to corrupt dictators and bent clerics.
Yes the G8 agreed it but I think we are the only mugs that pay it let alone statuted it! F|F|S, get real we give dosh to nuclear powers with a kin space program. Now if we actually gave it to those that needed it, it might not be so rediculous but it goes mostly to corrupt dictators and bent clerics.
//maybe a role for our armed forces Goodness if we can build a temp village in Afghanistan we can surely dig wells or build schools in villages//
I assume you are another with no respect for our Armed Forces, surely there are enough unemployed locals laying about in these villages that could be doing the digging?
I assume you are another with no respect for our Armed Forces, surely there are enough unemployed locals laying about in these villages that could be doing the digging?
"Can't ever remember any foreign country helping us out during any of our floods or even replenishing our 'food banks'."
You are suggesting we were in desperate need of such help ?
Given that, that is the situation Judge, and we are one of the richest countries in the world, then maybe we need to sort out why this is happening first, or preferably in tandem, so it can be corrected. By your calculation the implication is that rich countries are never able to help those desperate. So I suggest there must be something wrong somewhere. It's a case of finding out what and where; and then doing something about it. I suspect it is the usual issue of an individual, or even a country, spending up to their budget then a bit more rather than understanding what they can afford.
You are suggesting we were in desperate need of such help ?
Given that, that is the situation Judge, and we are one of the richest countries in the world, then maybe we need to sort out why this is happening first, or preferably in tandem, so it can be corrected. By your calculation the implication is that rich countries are never able to help those desperate. So I suggest there must be something wrong somewhere. It's a case of finding out what and where; and then doing something about it. I suspect it is the usual issue of an individual, or even a country, spending up to their budget then a bit more rather than understanding what they can afford.
"A sizeable chunk of the Foreign Aid budget comes back into the UKs coffers though...... "
Really? How so, Eccles?
Are you suggesting that some of the money we dole out returns to the UK in the form of goods bought? That's the only way I can see any "sizeable chunks" coming back. If so, there may be a bit of tax revenue from the company flogging the goods (though it would be minimal at best). But would it not be better to keep all of the money and spend it on what we like?
There is no "upside" for the UK in doling out huge sums of taxpayers' money to countries where it disappears. There has been, and continues to be, huge abuse of our aid money; the recipient countries are described as "developing" when in fact most are stagnating or regressing (some at alarming rates). Many of the recipient countries have been receiving the cash for donkeys' years but no appreciable improvement in their lot is apparent. It is money down the drain, wasted money, squandered money, money that the country has not got and cannot afford to borrow. It is outrageous that there is said to be insufficient money for vital services and improvements at home when such a huge sum is being given away every year for no apparent reason other than to make a few politicians feel smug and look heroic on the world stage.
Really? How so, Eccles?
Are you suggesting that some of the money we dole out returns to the UK in the form of goods bought? That's the only way I can see any "sizeable chunks" coming back. If so, there may be a bit of tax revenue from the company flogging the goods (though it would be minimal at best). But would it not be better to keep all of the money and spend it on what we like?
There is no "upside" for the UK in doling out huge sums of taxpayers' money to countries where it disappears. There has been, and continues to be, huge abuse of our aid money; the recipient countries are described as "developing" when in fact most are stagnating or regressing (some at alarming rates). Many of the recipient countries have been receiving the cash for donkeys' years but no appreciable improvement in their lot is apparent. It is money down the drain, wasted money, squandered money, money that the country has not got and cannot afford to borrow. It is outrageous that there is said to be insufficient money for vital services and improvements at home when such a huge sum is being given away every year for no apparent reason other than to make a few politicians feel smug and look heroic on the world stage.
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