Uk Pledges £50M To Help End Fgm In Africa

[Bigbad]

Money well spent, or a waste of taxpayers dosh?

[DTCwordfan]

If they had also pledged $50M to help end Burqa-wearing in the UK, then okay.

As long as the funds come from the wasteful Overseas Aid budget, then it's fine - probably better than funding assistance in the 'stans' or other corrupt regimes.

[Guilbert53]

In this country we have many people sleeping rough, also many ex service people sleeping rough or with mental health problems. Some of those will die this winter.

And while we would like to "fix" all the ills in the world it is not our job.

Lets the UN or some other huge global organization do it.

We have FAR too many major problems at home.

Even people living in the UK are victims of FGM as we have allowed so many backward and primitive people to come to live in this country.

[Denton]

You know that won’t happen though,DTC.

[Bigbad]

Sorry folks, forgot the link!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-46307572

[youngmafbog]

Waste of tax, simply wont change a thing. Perhaps we could start in the UK?

It will end up in some despots account.

[mushroom25]

the sad fact is that in communities that practice female circumcision, the women themselves acquiesce, because if they don't they find themselves unmarriageable. they can throw what they like at the issue, nothing will change.

[Togo]

More virtue signalling politics at out expense. Remind me again how many convictions have there been in the UK, where the practice flourishes amongst certain sections of the "community". Clue...….it is a nice round number.

[SparklyKid]

Waste of money.

[Canary42]

Good intentions, but somewhat misguided. Try eliminating in here first.

[Togo]

Meanwhile the women of Britain protest outside M&S about a knicker advert. Bless.

[ToraToraTora]

goods intent sure but as we know this will end up anywhere but the target beneficiaries.

[Togo]

Meanwhile Hollyoaks the fatuous soap for bored teenagers plans to run a storyline focusing on terrorism, grooming and extremism. Guess who the "focus" is to be on? (you're ahead of me here again aren't you) Yep the "far right". and it is the Islamists who are under threat.

[Gladeian]

Waste of money. The Ambulance documentary last night highlighted 150 patients waiting in an A&E corridor for treatment because of lack of resources. It is time the population and tax payers of this country came first before handing money out to foreign nations.

[anotheoldgit]

There was a story the other day about a missionary being murdered by a primitive tribe, but they can't be charged with murder because they a protective people, who's culture should not be interfered with.
Well the same should apply to these Africans who's culture is also in the stone-age, leave them to I say, just as long as they don't bring their culture here.

[Bigbad]

They have bought it here, aog, but that doesn’t change my opinion:
There are so many things in this world that I really couldn’t care less about, and this is one of them.
FGM is done by the backwards to the future backwards.
It’s never going to affect me or mine, so my toss-giving-ometer doesn’t move. (Cue posts like “that tells me all I need to know about you, Bigbad”)
But when I think of the things that £50 million could be spent on in this country, then that’s when I do care, and I simply don’t get it.

[hereIam]

^ with you 100%.

[vetuste_ennemi]

Have I been asleep and missed a point?

Ought we not stop FGM here first?

[geevo41]

This certainly isn't going to win me a BA but IMHO any money pledged to help eradicate this dreadful practice, wherever in the world, is well spent.

[spathiphyllum]

waste of tax payers dosh. If they care about genital mutilation so much why is pretty much every american boy circumcised?

[vetuste_ennemi]

Do AB's fasses feministes know (or care about) how many cases of FGM are known about here?

There are doctors here (for the rich) doing clitoridectomies.

Can't afford Harley Street, then save up and send your ten year old back to Mogadishu to be cut.

Or club together and get the circumciser from Mogadishu over here to do a job lot

All known and sanctioned by the child "protection" agencies. As anyone who watched the recent program about the Somali population in Bristol and the capitulation to barbarism by the police, welfare services, local council etc.