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Originally Posted by Wynonie Harris
So perhaps you could explain, Andrew, why the government are increasing the overseas aid budget by 37%? We all have to tighten our belts, while we give money to India - a country rich enough to fund its own space programme? Yeah, that makes sense.  |
'Looking at the figures I discover that, over the last five years for which data are available, Britain has given £8.7 million in development aid to Singapore, whose gross domestic product per capita is the fourth highest in the world, and 46 per cent higher than our own.'
'Over the same period, other recipients of British development aid have included Slovenia, Malta, the Czech Republic and Hungary, all highly developed First World countries, fellow members of the EU, and two of whom are even in the euro. In the last year for which figures are available, Britain also gave £380,000 in aid to the enormously wealthy oil sheikhdom of Saudi Arabia.'
Did Britain really need to give millions to the wealthy state of Singapore? - Telegraph
So as well as giving overseas aid to shockingly wealthy countries, and plan to give 37% more, whilst we suffer drastic cuts to services in the UK, we also send funds to countries with appalling records when it comes to human rights abuses, such as the enormously rich Saudi Arabia?
The whole thing would be comically farcical, if it wasn't so sick.