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Ethiopian Girl Band Funded By UK Aid |
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Ethiopian Girl Band Funded By UK Aid
The apparent £5.2m funding of an Ethiopian girl band doesn't exactly fill you with confidence in terms of what the Department for International Development are doing with 0.7% of GDP (about £12b), the second highest in the world.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-38364687 |
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Whilst that funding seems high, after you look through the tabloid hyperbole, the reality is it is a whole programme designed to promote women's rights in a country that very much needs them.
http://www.upworthy.com/see-the-ethi...-of-themselves So i'm completely failing to be outraged here. Sorry |
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Oh dear.
I'm sure there are many hair raisingly inept "projects" too. What is interesting is how Ms Patel, having excelled herself as Project Lie's premier harpie, and previously a supporter of scrapping the aid budget, now is a stout defender. Even of the 0.7%. Obviously supped from the BoJo cup of bullshit. |
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Whilst that funding seems high, after you look through the tabloid hyperbole, the reality is it is a whole programme designed to promote women's rights in a country that very much needs them.
http://www.upworthy.com/see-the-ethi...-of-themselves So i'm completely failing to be outraged here. Sorry |
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Oh dear.
I'm sure there are many hair raisingly inept "projects" too. What is interesting is how Ms Patel, having excelled herself as Project Lie's premier harpie, and previously a supporter of scrapping the aid budget, now is a stout defender. Even of the 0.7%. Obviously supped from the BoJo cup of bullshit. |
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Faux outrage time.
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£5.2m could do quite a lot to help carers in this country.
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Priti Patel should be sacked. At a time when more and more cuts are having to be made to services that we use how can this be justified.
Ensuring our services are well funded is far more important than the girl-power, female supremacist feminist ideology. It wouldn't be so bad if it was spent on something that would actually help the girls of Ethiopia, but spending it on a commercial band is just a waste of money. Why not build a school, set up courses for girls etc, all of which would have at least have a worthwhile lasting effect on the actual children of Ethiopia. Value for money my arse, if she wants to fund vanity projects she should do it out of her own pocket not ours. |
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£5.2m could do quite a lot to help carers in this country.
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Foreign aid should be abolished, people in this country are struggling to get by.
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So its an important educational programme that the money is being spent on fronted by 5 girls. I can think of far worse things our money is spent on to get worked up about.
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Foreign aid should be abolished, people in this country are struggling to get by.
TL;DR Version - it's not their money |
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£5.2m could do quite a lot to help carers in this country.
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So its an important educational programme that the money is being spent on fronted by 5 girls. I can think of far worse things our money is spent on to get worked up about.
It would have been more acceptable if the money had been donated to the programme directly and the programme had chosen to use it in this way. |
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Its all bloody wrong - It's one thing to feed the starving,but it's quite another to pay for crap like this
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There are actually a lot of studies that show aid to Africa actually hinders growth promotes coruption and holds these countries back in the long run. Why spend millions on infrastructure projects when you can wait for some Europeans or Americans to come along and build it for you free of charge.
Take a look at this graph that shows aid as percentage of GDP vs per capita growth. https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-ap...rly.png&w=1484 |
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A sick joke.
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So its an important educational programme that the money is being spent on fronted by 5 girls. I can think of far worse things our money is spent on to get worked up about.
its why BBC programmes , the world service , diplomacy, and educational and cultural changes are more effective in producing global changes than armies , and armies are used to recify the situation only when things go badly wrong. |
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Foreign aid should be abolished, people in this country are struggling to get by.
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We already spend far more on benefits in this country. We depend on world trade and a stable world, and a developing world - both for our economic well being, and security. Without that, the people who make the money to pay the benefits, woudln't be making the money, and we would be dodging more terrorists, and watching more markets go down to civil wars.
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And the Ethiopian Spice Girls are helping us how ?
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And the Ethiopian Spice Girls are helping us how ?
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I read something recently that said this isn't the first donation to this band.
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But how can Priti defend it? Not so long ago she wanted to scrap the entire department she now runs.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...-a7137331.html Surely she's not a braindead, two faced, shallow opportunist? I can't believe that. |
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