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Gordon Booth · 26-10-2010, 15:14

I know this crops up on other threads but it's getting so silly I thought it might be worth its own.
£8,400,000,000 on foreign aid this year!! £12,600,000,000 in 2012!!
Broke? How can we be when the government can give that sort of money away? To India-£295 million, for what? One of the fastest growing, richest countries in the world.To dictators Swiss bank accounts?
We already give £17.5 billion to the EU, a lot of that goes as foreign aid to our East European fellow members. Isn't that enough?
We give more than any country in the world except the USA. Thats the richest country in the world, we're one of the most bankrupt in the EU.
Look at debtbombshell.com, it's frightening.
Whatever your politics, this is maddness.That money would pay over a third of the INTEREST we will pay this year. Instead we'll have two aircraft carriers with no aircraft. Or it would make some of the cuts being imposed on us unnecessary.
It makes good headlines in the Express(a Tory paper?) but it makes me really angry. Who is this government crawling to? Certainly not us!

26-10-2010, 15:14	#1
Gordon Booth Senior Member+ Join Date: Jul 2010 Posts: 2,402 Liked: 715 times Rep Power: 46614	Who says we're broke? I know this crops up on other threads but it's getting so silly I thought it might be worth its own. £8,400,000,000 on foreign aid this year!! £12,600,000,000 in 2012!! Broke? How can we be when the government can give that sort of money away? To India-£295 million, for what? One of the fastest growing, richest countries in the world.To dictators Swiss bank accounts? We already give £17.5 billion to the EU, a lot of that goes as foreign aid to our East European fellow members. Isn't that enough? We give more than any country in the world except the USA. Thats the richest country in the world, we're one of the most bankrupt in the EU. Look at debtbombshell.com, it's frightening. Whatever your politics, this is maddness.That money would pay over a third of the INTEREST we will pay this year. Instead we'll have two aircraft carriers with no aircraft. Or it would make some of the cuts being imposed on us unnecessary. It makes good headlines in the Express(a Tory paper?) but it makes me really angry. Who is this government crawling to? Certainly not us!