Do You Agree With Jeremy Corbyn That The Uk Should Increase It's Overseas Aid?

[anotheoldgit]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/889149/foreign-aid-labour-jeremy-corbyn-demands-theresa-may-taxpayer-money-international-abroad

[Bigbad]

No, spathiphyllum.
How about forward thinking, contraceptive using, non war mongering, progressive countries whose people don’t continue to breed, despite having no way of feeding themselves, let alone the many children they produce.

[EDDIE51]

TTT trying to explain the benefit of overseas aid to you is pointless.
You are AB's most voracious anti EU proponent and Brexit supporter (yet you express your pride in ownership of a 100% German car, care to comment?)
https://fullfact.org/economy/uk-spending-foreign-aid/
https://www.psa.ac.uk/insight-plus/blog/does-uk-international-development-aid-benefit-britain
^ Read Learn and inwardly digest .

[hereIam]

no, No, NO, NO!!!

[ichkeria]

Foreign aid isn't just about charity, it is about investing in other countries, quite often for our own benefit.
I don't think you can simply say "we should spend more - or less" without giving it some proper thought.

[Bigbad]

And trying to explain what a waste of UK taxpayers money overseas aid to you is also pointless, EDDIE.

When we have no homeless, no elderly having to choose between heat or food, and can pay for life saving/life enhancing drugs for our own citizens, even if they are expensive, then perhaps we can think about helping out the backwards countries.
Well, you can, I never would.

Ichkeria, how does giving money to countries like Ethiopia and Mozambique help the UK?

[Bazile]

Bigbad

It probably allows us to have a few 007's operating without too much grief , in the region

[hereIam]

I've given it plenty of 'proper thought' and I firmly believe we should see to our own needy first and I will never sway from that.

[Bigbad]

So, Bazille, what good does that do us?

And hereIam - quite right too.

[ToraToraTora]

"We as a UK have plenty of money and opportunity to help our own but the gov keep it ALL why should other countries now be denied our help because our own wont help our own? " - how to the governement keep it all? they spend it and more besides we are Trillion in debt For Gosh Sake, we pay the equivalent of the defence budget in interest! get real sunshine!
Eddie one of my cars is German, I also have other vehicles and items from around the world that does not mean I want to hand control of my country to them. I'm not anti the EU countries individually, I'm anti Us being in the EU and the insidious mass itself. I have no problem with their produce. We can be philanthropic when we are not in debt and everything here is rosy.

[Bigbad]

spathiphyllum, if that’s the case, why should UK citizens have to make even more sacrifices to pay for the backwards countries? Particularly as we borrow money. Where is the sense in borrowing money to give away to lost causes?
And ultimately, what good does all this money do? These people have been going through the breed/starve/die cycle for years, and nothing ever improves.

[Bazile]

//So, Bazille, what good does that do us? //

Well the world of the security services is a a complex one

[naomi24]

No, I don't agree with him. I don’t know why anyone listens to Jeremy Corbyn. The man is an idiot.

[Bigbad]

It may well be complex Bazille, but I would still like to know what good it does us.

But we’re not thriving as well as we could, spathiphyllum, for all sorts of reasons, so why waste money on those who are incapable of dragging themselves anywhere near the 21st century?

Were those terrorist attacks stopped because we have 007 types in Ethiopia?

Gotta go out now. Will check the thread again later.

[EDDIE51]

^ Thanks TTT I could not have thought up a better confirmation of your 'I'm alright Jack' attitude if I had tried for years
Also thanks for your , albeit unwitting , support for remaining in the EU ! it would be impossible to express the views and attitude of the typical 'Brexiter' in more eloquent and concise terms. I am certain that every time you open your mouth you convert a few more to the Remain camp , thanks again.