Oh, no, not reduce. Cease all foreign aid in its entirety.
Cabinet ministers have reportedly called on Theresa May to reduce the government’s foreign aid spending and boost the defence budget in the next Tory manifesto.
They believe the UK is doing more than its fair share when it comes to overseas development spending.
Senior Conservatives want to scrap the UK’s commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of its gross national income (GNI) on helping poorer countries and divert the money to keep Britain safe.
They are moving in the right direction, although not enough and not fast enough. We need to stop all spending on foreign aid and give it back to the people it is stolen from – you and I. As for the defence budget, that will be more than adequate with a suitable slashing of spending on all NGOs and ridding ourselves of dead wood in government (most of it).
According the cretins commenting below the line, this attitude makes me heartless and selfish… The amount of people willing to see money forcibly taken from one group of people to give away to another is disturbing.
Let those who feel a “moral imperative” to donate to the benighted heathen do so: they have absolutely no right to foist their views into my wallet and steal my money to give it to the ungodly.
It’s just intellectual masturbation:- it gives a warm glow of satisfaction to the perpetrator; it is distasteful to any onlooker; it is of no conceivable use to anyone else.
I was told years ago that a lot of foreign aid is given on the understanding it buys “British goods and services.” Sort of subsidy to our industry, if the story is true. However, as North Korea is unlikely to buy much British (though perhaps Kimmy has a taste for good Scotch) can’t see why any cash goes there.
I think the general rule of thumb is not whether they buy British, but are they working to undermine the west — and us in particular? That would immediately cut the spend on a whole bunch of anti-western, terrorist-supporting or immigrant-exporting states.
We had a visit from someone who was putting forth the idea that paying people to buy our stuff was a good idea on an earlier post. We were given strict instructions not to feed the troll so we declined to point out the obvious, that paying people to buy your stuff is exactly the same as giving it away.
I dunno about strict instructions, merely reminding you that you would be wasting your effort.
I think you have missed the whole point of corruption. Corruption, in one form, is paying politicians to pass laws that make the payee richer, like tax loopholes and trade rules and so on. If you spend a bit of money on foreign corruption, then you make it back because you buy laws in the foreign country that favor your businesses. Domestic corruption has been said to be the investment with the highest payoff, figured in multiples of the cost. Perhaps it is also so with foreign corruption.
Or perhaps you think there is no corruption involved with foreign aid … Oh my!
I did believe she was BluLab. Today she confirmed it.
1. Theresa May says 0.7% foreign aid commitment will remain in Tory manifesto
2. Theresa May defies the right by maintaining 0.7% aid pledge
I’m furious.
Mistrust of her on Brexit has increased.
May has confirmed she is scared of argument, debate and bad headlines on BBC & Grun
Another spineless PM putting their MSM public image before what is economically best for the UK.
Did I mention I’m furious….
Don’t need to stop it – just need to make sure it ends up where it’ll do some good. About 80% of UK foreign aid is paid to UK citizens and is paid into offshore accounts that don’t get taxed. Mostly offshore accounts of UK banks..
The rest is mostly wasted. I got paid by the aid budget from 84-86 which cost 90% less than the social security benefits I would have got if I’d been in the UK then.