UK 'to end direct aid to 16 countries'

[Gerald]

The UK is to stop direct aid to 16 countries, including Russia, China and Iraq, papers seen by the BBC suggest.

A draft copy of the government's review of its overseas aid budget - due to be published this week - also reveals aid to India will be frozen.

But overall, the international development budget will rise by a third in this Parliament as a new approach focuses on value for money, it says.

The report states that aid spending is good for Britain's economy and safety.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12589626


Note: 27 February 2011 Last updated at 07:30 GMT

[Skybird]

Understandable in some cases at least. It is insane to still pay "develoepment aid" to China while their economy and cheap labour is flattening us with their cheap exports. Germany enthusiastically still accompanies this lunacy. We also should not pay developement aid to 3rd world regimes where the rich tyrants at the top take the cream, and we should stop support for all countries and people who stand for an ideology hostile to ours. They may not have an obligation to share our views - but in return we have no obligation to make them stronger so that they find it easier to challenge us.

Europeans are obsessed with committing all the above sins. They do so - at their own cost, acchieveing m,uch, much less than they make themselves to beoiueve. The bill is payed - by the common worker on the street, the tax-payer. Thank you, Mr. Superpolitician - we anyway have no need to keep our hard works' earnings for ourselves, and in our own country. So let's waste it to polish the superficial shine.

[Gerald]

I agree with the previous speaker,and at this stage should U.K hold priority, to the country's best.

[Platapus]

One could only hope such a thing could happen to the United States.

How many billions to we give to other nations?

How many good school lunches could that buy for US kids?

[Oberon]

Finally!

[Gerald]

One could only hope such a thing could happen to the United States.

How many billions to we give to other nations?

How many good school lunches could that buy for US kids? According to that the figure is $23.5bn which equates to about 0.18% of GDP. To put that in context the US military budget represents around 5% of GDP.

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/eco_eco_aid_don-economy-economic-aid-donor

[STEED]

Dear Mr Cameron PM

Now you stopped over seas aid can you shoot sum of that money my way to help pay off all my bills.

STEED :DL

[Oberon]

Dear Mr Cameron PM

Now you stopped over seas aid can you shoot sum of that money my way to help pay off all my bills.

STEED :DL

Dear Peasant

http://tmmeditationlondon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/David-Cameron-laughing.jpg

Love Dave x

[nikimcbee]

Dear Mr Cameron PM

Now you stopped over seas aid can you shoot sum of that money my way to help pay off all my bills.

STEED :DL

It's going to former colonies to stimulate the economy.:D

[Takeda Shingen]

Dear Peasant

http://tmmeditationlondon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/David-Cameron-laughing.jpg

Love Dave x

:haha:

[STEED]

Dear Peasant

http://tmmeditationlondon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/David-Cameron-laughing.jpg

Love Dave x

That would be a honest answer. :haha:

[STEED]

It's going to former colonies to stimulate the economy.:D

In the form of tea bags. :rotfl2:

[nikimcbee]

In the form of tea bags. :rotfl2:
and coffee, spices, furs, tea from India, sugar, rum.

[nikimcbee]

...and if you hurry, we'll sell you back New York to pay for the French-Indian War.:yeah:

[STEED]

:rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2::rotfl2:

[The Third Man]

Independence requires alliances with other nations. Not aid or handouts.

money is used for influence. Not to help nations.

[STEED]

Independence requires alliances with other nations. Not aid or handouts.

money is used for influence. Not to help nations.

Good point. :up:

[Jimbuna]

Charity begins at home.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/fivelivebreakfast/british-bulldog.jpg

[jumpy]

Question: if you have your own military nuclear program, do you still qualify for foreign aid money?
Answer: yes, but only if a percentage of your civilian population qualifies as impoverished by international standards.

How to have your cake and eat it, at least if you're the government of india or pakistan.

Given the much discussed state of our economy and the steady rise in public and private spending cuts, it's about time we had a look at who we're giving money to and why.
If you can't help yourself, then you're never going to be in any fit state to help others...

I don't know how accurate this is, but it's an effective debt propaganda tool: http://www.debtbombshell.com/
lengthy pdf if you want to see the ONS figures for 2010 http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/d/psf.pdf

[Oberon]

Question: if you have your own military nuclear program, do you still qualify for foreign aid money?
Answer: yes, but only if a percentage of your civilian population qualifies as impoverished by international standards.


So where's our foreign aid money then? :hmmm:

[bookworm_020]

It's going to former colonies to stimulate the economy.:D

Well, we are taking the Irish off your hands!

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/irish-eyes-on-australia-as-exodus-from-economically-troubled-old-country-builds/story-e6frg6nf-1226013132700

[Snestorm]

Foreign aid is:
The taking of money from a poor man in a "rich" country,
and giving it to a rich man in a poor/"poor" country.

All the nations beiing labeled "rich", are debtor nations.
Governments that can not meet their own bills, have no right to give away the people's money, that they are supposed to be representing.

[STEED]

Charity begins at home.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/fivelivebreakfast/british-bulldog.jpg

Cool picture there jim, I'm adding that to my wallpaper. :up:

[Gerald]

Foreign aid is:
The taking of money from a poor man in a "rich" country,
and giving it to a rich man in a poor/"poor" country.

All the nations beiing labeled "rich", are debtor nations.
Governments that can not meet their own bills, have no right to give away the people's money, that they are supposed to be representing. :agree:

[Armistead]

One could only hope such a thing could happen to the United States.

How many billions to we give to other nations?

How many good school lunches could that buy for US kids?

I agree, our tax dollars should work for americans. I read that 1 in 6 kids in America go to bed hungry. Get our house in order first.

[Jimbuna]

Cool picture there jim, I'm adding that to my wallpaper. :up:

Rgr that :DL

[Platapus]

I agree, our tax dollars should work for americans. I read that 1 in 6 kids in America go to bed hungry. Get our house in order first.

When we were hit with Katrina, I would have loved the President to announce a temporary suspension of foreign aid and state that he had to take care of his own citizens first.

No leader should ever feel bad about helping his or her own citizens first.

[nikimcbee]

Charity begins at home.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/fivelivebreakfast/british-bulldog.jpg

I approve of this post:yeah:

Is that a portrait of First Sea Lord Percy MacBuna, Lord of the Northern Fleet of the Tyne in the mid 1750's?

[Jimbuna]

I approve of this post:yeah:

Is that a portrait of First Sea Lord Percy MacBuna, Lord of the Northern Fleet of the Tyne in the mid 1750's?

Good old Winston the British Bulldog :cool:

http://imgcash6.imageshack.us/img91/5841/greatbritaincj6.gif

[Jimbuna]

When we were hit with Katrina, I would have loved the President to announce a temporary suspension of foreign aid and state that he had to take care of his own citizens first.

No leader should ever feel bad about helping his or her own citizens first.

Rgr that.....I was astonished when I heard on the news this morning that we give financial aid to India WTF!, Russia your kidding me and China the second largest economy on the planet, bigger than Japan now FFS! :o:stare: