Foreign Aid
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Foreign Aid
Stop it right now and spend it in the UK.
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Re: Foreign Aid
I have never understood the insistence by all (it seems) of the mainstream parties to retain this baffling ring fenced expenditure. Maybe it serves some purpose that we are not aware of, but the notion that politicians and senior civil servants are doing it purely out of altruism (albeit with other peoples' cash) is of course laughable.finchman wrote:Stop it right now and spend it in the UK.
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Re: Foreign Aid
Over £12b. Think what that could do if used sensibly in this country. How can you justify the cuts governments have made, and then send this sort of money out of the country. Moreover, two of the countries we send 'aid' to have expensive space programs. The clowns who agree this hide behind 'it's our moral obligation' but have no idea exactly where this money goes and who benefits fom it.
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Re: Foreign Aid
how many millions went to the ethiopian spice girls?
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Re: Foreign Aid
Well, we should stop military aid for sure.finchman wrote:Stop it right now and spend it in the UK.
Civilian-oriented aid should continue.
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Re: Foreign Aid
Whatever it was They never would have got it before some kind of Gangster grabbed it.paolo wrote:how many millions went to the ethiopian spice girls?
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Re: Foreign Aid
Foreign aid is a way of gaining influence in third world countries and indirectly paying bribes. Good deal of false accounting involved which benefits our "own" people too.
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Re: Foreign Aid
This is why the world population has rocketed to over 10 billion. This is why we need GM synthetic food to feed everyone.
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If you mean it comes back via a revolving door in some kind of unseen backhander then I've always suspected the same.Royal24s wrote:Foreign aid is a way of gaining influence in third world countries and indirectly paying bribes. Good deal of false accounting involved which benefits our "own" people too.
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You not out in the mobile soup kitchen this year Tick?The Tick wrote:Well, we should stop military aid for sure.finchman wrote:Stop it right now and spend it in the UK.
Civilian-oriented aid should continue.
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m4 colin wrote:Whatever it was They never would have got it before some kind of Gangster grabbed it.paolo wrote:how many millions went to the ethiopian spice girls?
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Re: Foreign Aid
Yes, and looking to run you over with it.m4rkb wrote:You not out in the mobile soup kitchen this year Tick?The Tick wrote:Well, we should stop military aid for sure.finchman wrote:Stop it right now and spend it in the UK.
Civilian-oriented aid should continue.
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Unfortunate choice of words when you consider Berlin last night.The Tick wrote:Yes, and looking to run you over with it.
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Re: Foreign Aid
Like crops that dont give seed to plant for next year . that will help the poor in the third world wont it? there is a word for that and that word is...EvilAlcoholBrazil wrote:This is why the world population has rocketed to over 10 billion. This is why we need GM synthetic food to feed everyone.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLOHhzLlaJoThe Tick wrote:Yes, and looking to run you over with it.m4rkb wrote:You not out in the mobile soup kitchen this year Tick?The Tick wrote:Well, we should stop military aid for sure.finchman wrote:Stop it right now and spend it in the UK.
Civilian-oriented aid should continue.
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Re: Foreign Aid
m4rkb wrote:If you mean it comes back via a revolving door in some kind of unseen backhander then I've always suspected the same.Royal24s wrote:Foreign aid is a way of gaining influence in third world countries and indirectly paying bribes. Good deal of false accounting involved which benefits our "own" people too.
Course it does m4rkb. I've seen it in action. Everyone gets a share except the people it's actually intended for and sometimes we get contracts or the facility to slip troops quietly in and out , refuel aircraft and so on.
Of course, because it's all so fucking cloak and dagger, half of it is simply nicked by almost anyone involved in the chain, and written off. Before the EU, it was the most untraceable source of income for politicians and functionaries.
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