No money to ease our problems, but...

[Kathyan]

Gordon Brown gives �50m to Afghanistan! How much more of 'our' money is this bloke going to give away? No link, heard it on the BBC lunchtime news.

[vehelpfulguy]

It says over 60 million here

http://uk.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idU KISL33453020080821

[vehelpfulguy]

>No link, heard it on the BBC lunchtime news.

If you want to find any news item do as follows:

Go into Google and type a keyword or words, in this case: afghanistan

When you get the results select the "news" tab at the top of the Google page. All the news items are listed.

You can click the "sort by date" filed to get the newest items at the top.

[Gromit]

Can you spot where the money is being wasted?

�2,000,000,000 = Cost of UK army in Afghanistan 2008

�6,400,000 = Aid/Development (to Afhanistan Army)

[The Sherman]

Gordon Brown and most western governments give aid to a lot of undeveloped countries every year.
It always amuses me how you have access to a computer and internet then come on and Fugging BITC* and moan when our government try and help people who dont even have running, clean water. People really disgust me sometimes. what do you need more money for?
a loft conversion? what a fugging joke

[bazwillrun]

And people like you with your views disgust me.

I couldnt care less about other countries my country comes first, my family, me, not afghanistan , africa etc etc.

i couldnt care less about them, deal with it

[The Sherman]

and em where do you think this countries money came from in the first place? I dont see many gold mines in britain do you?

[The Sherman]

"And people like you with your views disgust me."

Let me get this straight? people who agree with charity disgust you?

I'm sure i must have misintrepreted that so please do correct me with what you mean by that?

[Gromit]

The �6.4M is going to train the Afghan Army.

The sooner the Afghan Army get up to speed, the sooner we can get out of there and the sooner we can stop paying �2Billion to keep our army in danger there.

[Kathyan]

So did the countries that have gold mines just give us the gold then?

[Gromit]

Kathyan,

Why do you think, when we had an Empire, we conquered places like India and Africa?

Clue: We didn't go there for the sunny climate.

[jake-the-peg]

America didn't care too much about Afganistan.

Until a bunch of maniacs trained over there flew jet liners into New York!

Tell you what let's just pull out and leave them to it and see what happens shall we?

I'm sure they won't bother us once we're gone!

After all with �60 million extra Gorden could buy us all half a pint of beer at Christmas!

[BertiWooster]

No - we robbed them of it !!! ?

[BertiWooster]

Well said jake

[sandbach99]

For over 30 years this country and others have given Africa millions and millions of pounds, and instead of providing an improvement in living conditions some has been syphoned off to make certain people very rich and some has been used to buy armaments to start wars.

Why can't we send practical help? people on the dole for say 3 months sent to whereever to build schools, water treatment plants etc. If they leave a family behind don't alter their benefit claim. Government buy the bricks etc no actual money given then all the donations would actually start doing some good.

As things stand at the moment I also think that this money should be spent at home on pensioners and the disabled.

[The Sherman]

I sort of like you ingenuity their sandbach but i think your idea is very unworkable. There would be so many caveats and claims and issues with it I dont think you could make people go over there and work.

[Gromit]

sandbach99

Brown pledges more help for Afghan army

And your answer is to send them our unemployed.
Target practice perhaps?

[keyplus90]

Most of this money is being given so they learn how to kill their own people or the ones who have learnt, they carry on killing.

But USA and Britain are probably not aware of a very common saying about Afghans.

1 - You can hire an afghan anytime with more than what he is getting from somewhere else, but you can never ever buy an afghan for good.

2 - Afghans just fight. And when they are not fighting, they must be preparing for the fight.

[Quinlad]

So you have an issue with racism when it's aimed at you, keyplus, but you're ready to dish it out to Afghans?

I still think you're some white college student writing 'keyplus' as a kind of comedy character. You're surely not for real. You can't be that dense.

[Quinlad]

"what do you need more money for? a loft conversion?"

Beautifully put!