A silly statement.
It's like saying a country has a factory so stop all aid.
Space flight brings in revenue at a decent multiplier.
so you would rather no space flight, none of the profit from it and so they would need more aid.
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A silly statement.
It's like saying a country has a factory so stop all aid.
Space flight brings in revenue at a decent multiplier.
so you would rather no space flight, none of the profit from it and so they would need more aid.
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Please explain here the extra revenue from space flight comes from? I'm genuinely interested.
Pakistan and Nigeria have put satellites into space, why do we need to give aid to a country that can afford that?
Technology, science, payloads, efficiencies and pretty much every other area.
Space flight is far from a money pit
For example it's estimated every $1 invested in nasa returns $7- $14 to the economy.
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So if a country spends some of their money on something you deem to be frivolous, they shouldn't get any aid? Does the military count? Spending money on tanks and planes?
Also how much of the foreign aid goes to the government? You will actually DfID fund a lot of projects.
https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/department-for-international-development
https://www.gov.uk/international-development-funding
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So all the foreign aid we give benefits our country and economy?
Yes. Otherwise we wouldn't do it.
Even if it is just a case of reputation and making ourselves feel better. Although there are actual tangible benefits sometimes.
2015 - 2016
Sierra Leone received £370 million from the UK, how did we benefit.
Give me an example.
Because I just have all that information to hand don't I.
Fir a start some contracts would have gone to uk companies pumping money back into our economy.
Who know what diplomatic stuff might have happened or will happen in the future.
Well done you picked one small part. Of foreign aid.
Fir a start some contracts would have gone to uk companies pumping money back into our economy.
Who know what diplomatic stuff might have happened or will happen in the future.
Well done you picked one small part. Of foreign aid.
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So we are happy to hurt our own citizens with constant cuts while all the time making ourselves feel good by sending billions overseas?
Sorry, dont wash with me. Stop the cuts and then work out the foreign aid budget.
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Nobody is talking effective tax rate on gross, all conversations were about marginal tax rate. The discussion was specific to income between £100k and £121k.
Helped stopped the spread and impact of Ebola in Sierra Leone.
Yes, because in the long run such an obligation keeps the UK's international reputation and helps us in diplomacy.
A side benefit is that we help people in desperate need and we can feel good about that. Secondly, as has been suggested in this thread already, we have money for both.
Note, I donate to charities largely donating abroad. Would you say the same thing to me that I should support people in the UK first?
Yes, because in the long run such an obligation keeps the UK's international reputation and helps us in diplomacy.
A side benefit is that we help people in desperate need and we can feel good about that. Secondly, as has been suggested in this thread already, we have money for both.
Note, I donate to charities largely donating abroad. Would you say the same thing to me that I should support people in the UK first?
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£242 million went to Nigeria, give us all an example of how the UK benefited.
It is interesting to say it does, but just as interesting you don't know how.
Why should he know how. The people who decided that would be the best people to ask.
We are just taking it on good faith for now because we can see logic in the idea of International Aid.
No doubt some money gets wasted, just as it would with government projects in the UK.
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For the record your position isn't unreasonable, but I believe it to be wrong and so do a lot of people. It is why no mainstream party supports your position.
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It's just as interesting you don't be live all the experts that agree that foreign aid is far from altruism.
Wow I can see precisely what it goes on, what a surprise I'm not in government. They hardly make a list. Of we provided x money to such country so they let us fly our military over, or give us preferential treatment on construction projects etc. It's not something governments generally release.
"but you keep ignoring all that.
Wow I can see precisely what it goes on, what a surprise I'm not in government. They hardly make a list. Of we provided x money to such country so they let us fly our military over, or give us preferential treatment on construction projects etc. It's not something governments generally release.
"but you keep ignoring all that.
Because he made a statement saying it benefits the UK, I don't think it is unreasonable to ask him how.
And we've told you how.
You could extend that to everything though.
I think spending money employing a doctor at my local hospital is beneficial. I could reasonably guess at what the benefits are (as has been mentioned above), but would I know the exact beneficial actions which have happened tonight?