Is this why only UKIP wanted to cut foreign aid budget
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It may help in the short term but does it work long term?
A pro-slavery party. Their leader it's being forced to keep working for them.
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Wow, do we really spend 0.7% of GDP on "Foreign Aid"?
Comes to something when a supposedly advanced country is spending more on aid than scientific research. Bottom of the G8 and still no meaningful pledged support for Science, great job Britain...
Comes to something when a supposedly advanced country is spending more on aid than scientific research. Bottom of the G8 and still no meaningful pledged support for Science, great job Britain...
A few years back I can remember seeing the Headline Story on BBC News Website about the UK sending £200MILLION+ in Foreign Aid to help the poor in India and just below that story was another about how India was spending £200MILLION+ on it's Space Program. These were two HEADLINE Stories on the BBC News Website front page. Crazy.
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They have ipads.
is this supposed to be white guilt or something?
why should we be giving away 0.7% when the 2.0% army/defense budget has been at pressure of being cut, nhs doesn't have enough money, the country is facing austerity meaning councils have less money to spend on things.
they are talking about needing to find 12 billion in cuts from welfare.
we are not in a position to be giving away 12 billion a year.
if you really want to help these people then do it like china for a profit and create jobs for people
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why fund India they have enough money, what gets me in the 60million pound being sent to china to help build homes for the Chinese, when we cant even house our own.
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I too cannot see any benefit to the UK of being favourable to countries like India, as I also think Foreign Aid is purely about aid and has no other purposes.
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I don't have white guilt, it was not my generation so I should not have to pay for it, in fact before the white western power there were plenty of African and middle east states that dominated the world and had white slaves, you never hear about that.
your not going to get trade deals with india without greasing some corrupt palms, same with china
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sadly thats how it works use tax payers money to create private wealth, should nt companies do aid rather than states.
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I'd rather stop if entirely. There are much better things that money could be spent on.
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Whilst I agree that foreign aid and charity in general has lost its way, it's laughable to suggest that UKIP were pledging to abolish foreign aid for anything other than rather cynical domestic political reasons.
In general, charity has become to driven by money, dominated by power (and money) obsessed, chief execs who care more about figures that what good can come of the money they raise.
Sounds great, can they cancel ours too?
In general, charity has become to driven by money, dominated by power (and money) obsessed, chief execs who care more about figures that what good can come of the money they raise.
Sounds great, can they cancel ours too?
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Foreign aid is a disgrace. I am all in favour of disaster relief, but sending billions of pounds of tax payers overseas when our own nation has major problems is disgusting.
If I want to give money to foreigners, I will do it. I don't need the government to make that decision for me.
If I want to give money to foreigners, I will do it. I don't need the government to make that decision for me.
Why apologise for a DM link? it is quite an important story, and one that would probably never be seen on err...."other" MSM sites constantly linked on here.
I'd say the bill gates funds are quite a good bet they invest the money to try and make more money for the organisation and they seem to chose very worthy goals rathe than just headline grabbing ones
I'd much rather we chucked it I to an account each year till it built up to a cap (10 billion say?) And it csn then be used for any major disaster to quickly supply sid that has a real benifit in the short term and let the country take back over after the event.
The katrina hurricane showed even a country like the usa has issues dealing with a major disaster on its own in the first few days/weeks