Time for the government to stop foreign aid
jwar1976
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Over the years various British governments have given Third world countries millions of pounds whilst making extreme cuts to their own population. Last Dec it was announced that they will cut foreign aid by £800m, but yet they still made cuts to UK benefits, despite unemployment increasing. Last week Jessops went under & now it looks as tho HMV are due to go bust, sending at least another 4,350 people to the dole queue.
Imho the government should stop giving to other countries as they should be responsible for looking after their own. The money saved could be used for helping failing business with overheads or other costs. Every business that closes down, the government will be required to make further cuts to make up for the tax that it has lost from the companies that have gone bust.
Corrupt African governments are rolling in the money that we send them, they should be looking after their own, it shouldn't be our responsibility !.
Imho the government should stop giving to other countries as they should be responsible for looking after their own. The money saved could be used for helping failing business with overheads or other costs. Every business that closes down, the government will be required to make further cuts to make up for the tax that it has lost from the companies that have gone bust.
Corrupt African governments are rolling in the money that we send them, they should be looking after their own, it shouldn't be our responsibility !.
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And the politicians wonder why the 2011riots kicked off.
if people are being helped by this money then why are things still so bad for them? As a nation, we give away billions every year including millions to india which has a fifty per cent larger economy than we have. It' s like someone going through a hard time borrowing to give money to their better off neighbours. Maybe if some of the money was kept here then there wouldn't be the need for so many cuts.
foreign aid will only be sent for humanitarian reasons, natural disasters etc.
There is NO cast iron guarantee that UKIP will do that though.
At the heart of UKIP they are just Tories, Right Wing Neoliberal Thatcherites who are driven by the same ideology as the Conselfservatives and share their lust for greed.
Unless they put it in their manifesto and make it legally binding, what UKIP says and does will be two different things.
According to Cameron, yes. It is our moral duty.
That wasn't really the question...
So what did he mean by "it is our moral duty"?
I assume by this he meant our moral duty to help others, only it seems you are suggesting we have ulterior motives for doing it anyway, so maybe it is not down to morals but looking out for our own interests. if that is the case why did he not say that?
Because it's not very politician-y is it?
Of course you are right. They could not tell the truth if it kicked them in the face. Maybe they ought to start being a bit more honest and they would not get the backlash.
BIB: Where did you get that from? As far as I can tell the UK's economy is about 30% larger than India's in absolute terms, and in per capita terms it's about 1000% larger.
At least this is a start...
When coroners start putting the Latin word for starvation on death certificates because there weren't enough nursing staff to feed a patient or elderly people dying from cold related illnesses, children suffering abuse because there aren't enough social workers to watch over them, front line police being cut - it sums up evidence that the tax payers of Britain need to see more of their money stay in Britain to prop up the services that they are paying for.
Can we also have a ban on people on DS starting threads about how we should stop foreign aid?
Fairly certain it's not the astronauts and nuclear scientists who get our food parcels.
Why should I banned because I am vocal in my opinions & beliefs. Religious people are allowed to stand on boxes in streets and speak about their beliefs. I am using DS for my right to free speech. I tell the exact same thing to those Chuggers, that I would rather help one of our own out than to give money to a country that I have no intention of ever visiting. The best thing for places like Africa is to educate them on how to use a condom.
I suggest you read any trade vs aid debate first if you really want to know why Africa is not developing as you would like. Honestly the amount of threads we have had on this where the same old crap gets spewed out is just getting boring now.