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Post by PeterL on Apr 14, 2014 21:17:11 GMT
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Post by Barney McGrew on Apr 15, 2014 5:50:48 GMT
Meanwhile in this country more food banks are opening every week to feed those without work, more sick and disabled people are losing their income and their homes as the DWP declares the sick and dying fit for work to save money.
Has Cameron never learned that charity begins at home? Let's find homes and food for our own before we start feeding the world.
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Post by Ned Long on Apr 18, 2014 13:04:18 GMT
To have a fixed foreign aid budget is a nonsense. The need for aid can vary from year to year; depending on events like the Arab spring (which is really differing sects of that wonderful religion of theirs killing each other with gay abandon to prove that THEIR sect is the right one), or drought, or tsunamis, or earthquakes and the like. When a need is identified, then aid should be organised by the U.N. and all members should be asked to contribute pro rata through the good offices of the United nations.
What we seem to be doing is shovelling money away as fast as we can to some very dodgy and unworthy recipients, so that we can let Dave look good on the international stage. The waste and the misappropriation of our money is legendary. Nobody in their right mind would organise foreign aid as a fixed annual amount. The need has to be identified initially, and then aid targeted accordingly.
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Post by PeterL on Apr 18, 2014 19:20:12 GMT
At the very least it should be a condition that countries receiving foreign aid use it to buy UK products and services Which as far as I know it isn’t
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