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

[Baldric]

///I do not own a house been in council property all my life. On Pension credit so I don't pay rent or council tax///

How typical a Labour Voter is that?

[EDDIE51]

TTT both my Mum and Dad were Labour supporters, my Dad was a trade union convenor and local labour party leader. He worked all his life as did my Mum. My Mum was a school teacher and a specialist in remedial reading. She was so good the school did not want her to retire, even at over 70 she still taught 1 to 1 remedial reading .
I really do not see how you seem to think a socialist philosophy and a hard work ethic are mutually exclusive. Possibly your continued rants against the WSS (Work Shy Scum) are a pointer?

[ToraToraTora]

two subjects there, I'll take the latter first, WSS could not be labelled thus if they where contributing. Now Socialism, individuals may of course be hard working but the overall ethos encourages sloth making it unworkable.

[EDDIE51]

TTT with unemployment at a 45 year low, how do you continue to justify your condemnation of WWS? I have asked this before but never had a sensible answer. The problem now is that there are not enough people to fill the jobs not that there are people who refuse to work.

[Baldric]

///I do not own a house been in council property all my life. On Pension credit so I don't pay rent or council tax///

Take a second look Eddie, try and apply logic, if you can.

[naomi24]

hereIam, //Naomi you know I luv you, but don't you think that's a tad scaremongering ?//

Not at all. John McDonnell has said quite openly that he will create a run on the pound, and in order to fund all its impossible promises Labour proposes to hit companies with higher taxes, which will do nothing for investment and growth but will only serve to alienate business and discourage enterprise. That in turn will see jobs disappear. No scaremongering there. The Labour you’re seeing today is far removed from the Labour of the past. Its current brand would be an absolute disaster for this country. I really wish people would listen to what they’re saying – but it all seems lost in the swirling red mist that perpetuates the myth of the downtrodden working man who continues to vote as his dear old dad voted in order to fight ‘the toffs’. And if you want to evidence of that, read Eddie’s post at 16:39. He’s one of them. Funny really. He has been relieved of all personal responsibility so *** the real workers because he is milking the system for all it's worth and gets everything for nothing. What does he care?

Eddie, you have nothing to be proud of. Your attitude is sickening.

[Gromit]

Naomi,
// [McDonnell] has said he will create a run on the pound //

Nah.
The markets (might) do that. But probably won’t. McDonnell said he is prepared for that it it happens. All that means is he has consulted a few experts and now knows what to do if there is a run on the pound.

You have twisted being prepared for an event to actually creating an event which is totally different.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-pound-sterling-run-john-mcdonnell-economy-government-jeremy-corbyn-party-conference-a7968156.html

[naomi24]

Gromit, okay, planning for it. Whichever way, he doesn’t inspire confidence.

[ichkeria]

I presume this article is in the same vein as this:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/870236/uk-foreign-aid-budget-british-give-money-india-africa-taxpayer-nhs-elderly.

It includes the observation that £1 in every £7 spent on aid globally comes from the UK, but does not actually state that is also only 7 pence in every pound SPENT in the UK. Whch is quite another wqay of looking at it. We should be proud of the former, tho precious few here will be no doubt,

[ichkeria]

7p in every £10, sorry!!

[jlcm]

Just let him get elected and then see what happens he's not learned any lessons from the past ,I'm old enought to remember denis healey's budgets cannot remember how often they were but they came with alarming regularity ,as the country went bust and he tried fiddling with anything and everthing to delay the inevitable all because of stupid socalist policies I really thought the country had got past this however there is always some idiot prepared to have another go at failed ideas

[EDDIE51]

I would like to ask how I qualify as as a 'freeloader' when I worked and paid tax and NI for over 50 years and now claim just my state pension and the pension credit which the government told me I am entitled to?
Also yes I have social housing but for over 40 years until I retired I was paying full rent. I have calculated that I have paid at least 5x times what my house would have cost if I had been in a position to buy it on a mortgage. Yet I still do not own a single brick of it.

[KARL]

No, because the savings made would permit building of a third £3bn aircraft carrier plus £bns more for the aircraft (and more still every year to run the edifice), a symbol capable of "projecting" the UK's military might. It would take many, many decades to save the necessary sum from the proceeds of the aid's cancellation but let's get our priorities right, eh ?

[cassa333]

NO NO NO NO NO NO

Is that loud enough do you think?

We have paid a hell of a lot of money into corrupt and dangerous regimes. We have paid a hell of a lot of money to schemes that have no other benefit than to make a few people rich.

We need to be wiser on what our money is spent on. Humanitarian exercises in times of genuine need should come top of the list.

But most of all we should now stop apologising for colonial Britain. That would free us from the tyranny of shame that shackles us to an ever greater need for recognition for our contrition.

[Hazi-Hammenuhoth]

Off his trolley! Charity begins at home.

[youngmafbog]

// I have calculated that I have paid at least 5x times what my house would have cost if I had been in a position to buy it on a mortgage//

I find that very hard to believe.

Please provide the figure to backup this claim. You dont have to use your actual figures of your property just an example.

[Spicerack]

'. I do not own a house'

Not for want of trying, Eddie.

[ToraToraTora]

eddie; "TTT with unemployment at a 45 year low, how do you continue to justify your condemnation of WWS? I have asked this before but never had a sensible answer." - same as last time, when there are no WSS I'll stop going on about it. There are still millions sponging off the state.

[anotheoldgit]

EDDIE51

/// I have calculated that I have paid at least 5x times what my house would have cost if I had been in a position to buy it on a mortgage. Yet I still do not own a single brick of it. ///

Look on the bright side Eddie, you may not own a single brick but if some of those bricks came tumbling down, you would not have to fork out a single penny to have them replaced.