Foreign Aid
- 26 June 2013 08:37234930Ring fenced from the latest round of cuts, difficult to understand for most people I would imagine.Audere est facere.
- 26 June 2013 09:22234933Once you understand that 'Foreign Aid' is not money donated by our governments to assist those without help and hope but a mechanism to generate trade back home the reasons for its protection become clearer. It's commerce and not compassion.
- 26 June 2013 09:32234935Well that is easier to understand
Audere est facere. - 26 June 2013 09:37234937always been the case - nothing more than sweeteners.
- 26 June 2013 09:37234938Its right that if a country is hit by earthquake or other disasters we should help ,
I think most people will agree this,
But most failure in countries, is over population draining the resources in them countries
Just as the UK go for 70 million + population, the resources for all will diminish.
We should help supply berth control as aid.
And prevent the over spill in populations from leaving the countries that refuse to cut there populations,
It's a problem of there own making, lots of the time. - 26 June 2013 09:37234939Foreign Aid is a term used to describe the transfer of wealth from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
- 26 June 2013 09:49234944perfectly summed up peter, might be better to just transfer the money to the numbered offshore accounts and be honest about it.
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26 June 2013 13:23234989or cut it to zero instead.it would a cost cutting exersize worth doing. - 26 June 2013 14:01235004The transfer of wealth from the public economy to rich people in Britain is constant and ongoing.
So it may possibly be similar with foreign aid.
This Government should learn from the blatant fallacy of T. Blair, who has earned tens of millions "advising foreign governments" after leaving No 10.
While PM, he led Britain into the financial crisis of 2008, getting out just in time to make off on the gravy train in the wide world, reaping the tens of millions of promised pounds "advising".
Ed Miliband never brings this up!
Chanters, Drums and Drones Potty Time http://youtu.be/99fMqpjnXYA
Rule Britannia!
Kent First http://youtu.be/04F3mAP3fV4 Keep banging on http://youtu.be/qYCU_SKmkGQ - 14 February 2018 18:14339565Anyone else think that the current issues with UK charities overseas misdemeanors will give the government a perfect opportunity to cut the foreign aid budget - rightly or wrongly?Just because you don't take an interest in politics doesn't mean that politics won't take an interest in you. PERICLES.
- 14 February 2018 18:36339568The Bishop wrote:Anyone else think that the current issues with UK charities overseas misdemeanors will give the government a perfect opportunity to cut the foreign aid budget - rightly or wrongly?
Will never happen as party donors rely on our money going to a grubby dictator so that they can get contracts there. - 17 February 2018 11:00339644This was always rather inevitable.
https://rochdaleherald.co.uk/2018/02/13/just-3-month-will-pay-cocaine-child-prostitutes-oxfam-aid-worker/ - Captain Haddock
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17 February 2018 14:48339646I haven't given a penny to Oxfam for years. Years ago I used to support them with the idea of emergency response to famine (hence the 'fam' bit in their name) but over the years they seem to have morphed into an anti-West, anti-capitalist, anti-wealth group of whiny left-wingers turning up at anything from G20 meetings to Davos with their rather naive views of 'wouldn't it be nice if no-body fought each other and we all had enough to eat' as though they thought Imagine was the Word of God in verse rather than a rubbish song written by the less talented of the Beatles.
Oh yes. I forgot. Their upper management are also being paid a fortune.
Same as with most 'charities', of which there are 185,000 registered charities in England and Wales. The number is rising by 5,000 a year. As you read this, another charity will be created somewhere in the country.
The charity commission lists 620 cancer charities alone and more than 200 charities working with homeless people just in London. And you wonder why the Charities Commission can't keep an eye on them all!
There's probably enough 'Donkey Charities' to have one for each donkey by now!
Instead I've been giving monthly to Shelterbox. :- https://www.shelterbox.org/ Who do exactly what they say on the tin - disaster relief.
Personally I've no interest in getting some African fit enough to survive a crossing of the Med or rich enough to pay a smuggler.Guest 1713, John Buckley and Jan Higgins like this"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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17 February 2018 15:04339647My son lived near the Oxfam headquarters and he said the reputation they had in that area was awful.
I only support two of the national charities RNLI and the Royal British Legion and would not ever think of supporting any charity that spends a fortune on frequent TV advertising, especially as these are usually the ones that have extremely highly paid management.Guest 1713, Reginald Barrington and John Buckley like this-----------------------------------------------------------------------
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17 February 2018 17:51339653In passing I see that the poor homeless man who froze to death in Westminster who Jezza sent the card to turns out to be an African child abuser who we threw out of the country twice!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5402829/Homeless-man-dead-Westminster-child-abuser.html"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson - 17 February 2018 20:00339659Well that alright then. He clearly deserved it.Guest 1713 likes this
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17 February 2018 23:22339664Let's just say if he'd stayed in Angola the chances of him freezing to death would be less.
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