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17-04-2016, 07:12 PM | #1 | |||
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Why is so much of our tax money going to Iran, India, China and Zimbabwe?
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politi...t-cuts-Cameron
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19-04-2016, 01:38 AM | #2 | |||
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I was aware of most of these 'donations' Demo Red, but not all, and not of this excellent article - Thank you for posting this link.
It is infuriating and wholly indefensible that for years, our 'government' has been quietly handing over hundreds of millions of pounds of the tax money of - often hard-pressed and struggling - UK citizens to these countries, at a time when this same government has made the most inhumane draconian cuts to the most basic of services in this country, and I am amazed and disappointed that this excellent post has hitherto received not one response on here????? I would welcome some honourable MP - if such a creature does exist - to actually pose the same question in the Commons which you are asking on here.
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19-04-2016, 07:24 AM | #3 | |||
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Austerity should begin with foreign aid cuts
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19-04-2016, 07:28 AM | #4 | |||
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19-04-2016, 07:43 AM | #5 | |||
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There is no austerity, it's important to remember that when considering where our 0.7% of GDP is spent we were and continue to be a very wealthy nation.
'The Department for International Development's priorities for 2015 included helping nine million children into primary school, immunising more than 55 million children against preventable diseases, saving the lives of at least 250,000 newborn babies and encouraging global action on climate change. One recent example of spending was a grant of Ł724,500 to Medical Aid for Palestinians to deliver trauma support and plastic reconstructive surgery for many of those injured in the recent Gaza conflict. Another example was the Ł230m, thought to have risen higher in recent months, provided to help control the spread of Ebola. Last year, the government said it had spent Ł900m from its foreign aid budget on helping some of the four million refugees who have fled Syria since the war began. The vast majority of them are in refugee camps in neighbouring Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan and the need for humanitarian aid is constant. The funds have been spent on basic supplies such as water, food, medicine and shelter.' http://www.theweek.co.uk/63394/how-b...ow-is-it-spent
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19-04-2016, 07:59 AM | #6 | |||
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19-04-2016, 08:04 AM | #7 | |||
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So we should for example, let children just die in other countries when giving aid to them can prevent it?
People in this country don't know the meaning of poverty and helplessness compared to those facing plight in other countries |
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19-04-2016, 08:23 AM | #8 | |||
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Not saying that at all, the problem seems to be the money doesn't end up in the right hands, as an example why do we still need Comic Relief to raise money for malaria nets year on year on year in addition to foreign aid?
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19-04-2016, 08:24 AM | #9 | |||
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19-04-2016, 08:33 AM | #10 | |||
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Glad you picked it up Kirk.
“It is very telling that the Indian government is spending quarter of a billion pounds on its space programme, almost the exact same figure that the UK gave India in 2014. Wasn't it Pranab Mukherjee the Indian PM who recently suggested Britain's foreign aid to India amounted to peanuts? http://www.express.co.uk/news/politi...dia-279million No wonder, even with all these cuts on the British people our deficit is still rising.
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19-04-2016, 08:35 AM | #11 | |||
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19-04-2016, 08:39 AM | #12 | |||
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I am all for helping countries in need but of the huge amount of tax money leaving our shores, very little of it goes to Africa and Gaza. The largest chunks of that money are going to rising and buoyant economies.
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19-04-2016, 08:49 AM | #13 | |||
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get contracts for UK business The UK is not some benevolent charity who wants to help other countries, we want to get busines |
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19-04-2016, 09:45 AM | #14 | |||
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Now if that works all well and good but lets not allow our government to put a cloak over this 'gift aid' and have us all believe its just going to build wells in Sudan or jabs against measles in far away Africa. Few of us begrudge real aid, in fact a lot of us contribute to the foreign aid charities who constantly advertise for help, but when I hear my tax money has gone to build a wind farm for a chemical company in India, I want to know and understand why.
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19-04-2016, 10:12 AM | #15 | |||
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No one is advocating that we stop Foreign Aid, period, just that we ensure that not only is such aid specifically going to countries in GENUINE need, but also that it is GENUINELY used for the purposes it was intended for and NOT 'diverted' to sinister non-humanitarian projects once received. I agree that the plight of the 'poor and needy' in a lot of other countries eclipses that of our own, but that fact does not mitigate nor lessen the very REAL hardship and suffering of our own poor, and to see hundreds of millions of pounds of UK taxpayers money being 'donated' to the countries which Demo Red SPECIFICALLY highlights, when it could be spent alleviating the suffering of our own poor and needy, enrages me, quite frankly.
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19-04-2016, 10:13 AM | #16 | |||
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19-04-2016, 10:40 AM | #17 | |||
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It's just the same with benefits isn't it, if you dare question why someone can have 8 kids at the tax payers expense you are shouted down as being some heartless human being, and the point that you are making about the woman with 8 kids diverting resources away from those who genuinely find themselves in need and not made a conscious life style choice is lost in the shouting.
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19-04-2016, 10:55 AM | #18 | ||
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These people who make decisions about who aid is sent to need to be held accountable to who receives it and why.
Im not against spending 0.7% on aid for those that need it but the people making these decisions are the same people that throw around bombs in the middle east costing Ł1 million pounds each like they are confetti. Im so bored of the faux outrage whipped up by people who believe everything they see on the idiot box and in the papers when the real crimes are the murderers profiting from war,arms deals,Tax dodging and selling off of publicly owned services to their buddies who donate. Benefit fraud is not even a drop in the ocean compared to the mass fraud being carried out in plain sight and yet its all we hear about. Last edited by billy123; 19-04-2016 at 11:09 AM. |
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19-04-2016, 01:15 PM | #19 | |||
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If a countries government is responsible for its peoples plight, I don't think we should be providing aid because we are helping perpetuate that government, not help its people. But then, we still end up with starving/dying people, so its really hard to say no to providing aid when its desperately and urgently needed |
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19-04-2016, 02:54 PM | #20 | |||
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19-04-2016, 05:31 PM | #21 | |||
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This isn't charity, it's business. Maybe it's recompense for our colonial past who knows. If you aid countries there is more trade, it can't be us and them forevermore.
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19-04-2016, 05:51 PM | #22 | |||
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I know it's not charity but if the money was spent properly the charities could shut up shop! Last edited by Cherie; 19-04-2016 at 05:53 PM. |
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19-04-2016, 05:57 PM | #23 | ||
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19-04-2016, 06:04 PM | #24 | |||
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19-04-2016, 06:20 PM | #25 | ||
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Everyone should stop sending cash tbh, and build wells and such or set up some foodbanks for the normal people.
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