Originally Posted by Charlie Drake:
“Too many despots have been propped up by western short-termism without understanding (or wanting to admit to) the future ramifications. The chickens are well and truly coming home to roost. We live in dangerous and difficult times (especially for the refugees) and unfortunately I can't see it getting any better any time soon. By the way, this topic was started by Virgin Queen - I wonder if it was as a result of an issue raised on LBC.”
Nick Ferarri was doing his usual trick of throwing red meat to the dogs by talking in the way he does about a proposal for around half a billion extra to be sent to the source countries of refugees.
The figure sounds like a vast amount of cash which indeed it is but pause for a moment and think about this.
The extra money to help some of the poorest in the world equates roughly to 40 weeks of expenses for members of the House of Lords
800 lords x £300 x 5 x40