observer Posted April 5, 2013 Report Share Posted April 5, 2013 At a time of cuts at home, a committee of MPs has noticed that we're giving over £400million per year to Pakistan, where their own wealthy elite appear to pay little or no taxes. Has the penny finally dropped? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 There's a difference between noticing and doing something about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freeborn John Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 I expect they'll form a new committee as a matter of priority, to investigate how the Pakistani politicians do it and if the same system might be adopted in the UK... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Sid Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 when I saw the title I did for one second wonder if we had applied for some Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davy51 Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 Apparently last year the UK made about £ 12 billion in aid payments to numerous foreign countries many of which are home to terrorists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted April 6, 2013 Report Share Posted April 6, 2013 Whilst making swinging cuts at home. You couldn't make it up!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted August 9, 2013 Report Share Posted August 9, 2013 The UK gave Nigeria 1 billion pounds aid. What are they spending it on? The poor? No, of course not. They are spending it on sending rockets into space. Time to stop giving away money to other countries to waste when the UK is supposedly in the grip of austerity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie Posted August 9, 2013 Report Share Posted August 9, 2013 Foreign Aid : Poor people in a rich country sending money to rich people in a poor country. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P J Posted August 9, 2013 Report Share Posted August 9, 2013 The UK gave Nigeria 1 billion pounds aid. What are they spending it on? The poor? No, of course not. They are spending it on sending rockets into space. Time to stop giving away money to other countries to waste when the UK is supposedly in the grip of austerity. Egypt gets a shed load of cash from us in Aid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted August 9, 2013 Report Share Posted August 9, 2013 You have shed loads of Egyptian money secreted in several banks by the Mubarak family. Money which should have gone into the infastructure and economy in Egypt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P J Posted August 9, 2013 Report Share Posted August 9, 2013 So an Egyptian hides his ill gotten money in a bank and that means the British people should give over millions of pounds to make things right? great logic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted August 9, 2013 Report Share Posted August 9, 2013 Egypt is getting a damned sight less in tourist dollars now that the fools are killing each other on the streets..... it'll need all the aid it can get if they carry on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P J Posted August 9, 2013 Report Share Posted August 9, 2013 Seems that the aid they are already getting is being wasted or worse but having no effect on the lives of the people it is meant to be helping. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/eu/10128257/Baroness-Ashton-under-fire-for-1bn-in-wasted-aid-to-Egypt.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted August 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 9, 2013 Over to you Kije ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted August 10, 2013 Report Share Posted August 10, 2013 So an Egyptian hides his ill gotten money in a bank and that means the British people should give over millions of pounds to make things right? great logic. No, It means that the banks should be forced to hand back the billions of pounds to Egypt. Then maybe you can stick your aid where the sun don't shine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cleopatra Posted August 10, 2013 Report Share Posted August 10, 2013 taxpayers are also funding aid programmes in South Africa, Ghana, Uganda and Kenya – all of which have their own space agencies. Many are in their early stages, but include ambitious and expensive plans for satellites and even rockets. Over the five years of this Government, the four nations will receive more than £1.5billion from British taxpayers. Kenya will be handed the most, a total of £596million, followed by Uganda which is getting £480million. Ghana will receive £460million.South Africa will be given £112million – almost as much as it spends on its space programme. The long-standing project is estimated to cost some £110million a year. And in th UK money is too tight to mention. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P J Posted August 10, 2013 Report Share Posted August 10, 2013 No, It means that the banks should be forced to hand back the billions of pounds to Egypt. Then maybe you can stick your aid where the sun don't shine. There are legal means for a country to get back money that has been stashed away by its former leaders, but first your country has to prove ownership. It is not up to the UK to do this for you nor to prop up your regime with cash until you sort it. Its not like when the mob decides somebody is a criminal and hangs them from a lamp post, your leaders need proper evidence to proceed. If you get this money back Cleopatra I can only see it going the same way as the billions in aid does, on corrupt leaders and their cronies and arms dealers not as it should be in trying to improve the lot of the poor citizen who earns less than £2 a day. Here's an idea, do your lot still have Mubarak? if so torture his pin number out of him and help yourselves 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted August 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 10, 2013 Ironically, overseas aid, was ring fenced against cuts - supported by all three main political parties - so ultimately, the electorate are to blame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted August 10, 2013 Report Share Posted August 10, 2013 Here Obs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted August 11, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 ...... and the latest is: a warehouse in Somalia, containing tons of UK tax-payer funded aid supplies, was raided and destroyed by Al Quaeda terrorists; so literally £millions up in smoke. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 why is it in a warehouse and not on someones plate if they are that bloody hungry???Just shows the mess this aid nonsense is in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted August 11, 2013 Author Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 Presume it was awaiting distribution? The Foreign Office claimed that this was an acceptable risk in unstable countries - not sure most tax-payers would agree! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
algy Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 Why am I surprised that western powers are supplying money and arms to the rebels in these middle east countries when as soon as they have the upper hand they will amalgamate and bite more than the hand that has fed them, for goodness sake pull out of all the unstable countries we are involved with and leave them to fight it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 Baz to quote you "minority as the example" Works for me, and it must work for as you said it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bazj Posted August 11, 2013 Report Share Posted August 11, 2013 Baz to quote you "minority as the example" Works for me, and it must work for as you said it. I have no idea what you mean Kije........ what has the quote (taken out of context from some other thread no doubt) got to do with anything on here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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