Theresa May is thinking about ditching Cameron’s aid legacy.
Theresa May is considering ditching David Cameron‘s foreign aid target – and pouring billions more into the armed forces.
Aid is one of a series of Cameron-era pledges that could either be abandoned or significantly adjusted in the Tory manifesto.
Personally, I’d rather have that money back in my wallet. However, if it’s a choice between pissing it away on foreign aid or defence, I choose defence.
Mrs May yesterday refused to endorse the commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on aid every year. It was put into law by Mr Cameron and Nick Clegg but has been blamed for leading to hugely wasteful expenditure.
It’s early days, but this is sounding like she is moving in the right direction. The whole principle of foreign aid is wasteful expenditure. It is repugnant and immoral to take money from poor people in the West and to give it to wealthy people in the developing world, which is what is happening. Good God, we give it to places such as North Korea, Pakistan and India; the latter having its own space programme FFS!
And last night she cancelled an appearance with Microsoft founder Bill Gates – a leading advocate of the 0.7pc target who hours earlier had called for the pledge to be kept.
Is Bill Gates a UK taxpayer? No? Well he can piss off, then.
Cancelled on the King of the Microserfs? Well done that Prime Minister.
Absolutely right in principle.
Unfortunately defence spending is also a question of taking money from the poor in this country and handing to the rich in this and other countries. It is disgustingly corrupt and wasteful.
British squaddies, the finest in the world, and the most effective item in the government’s budget, are paid less than policemen and have poor or inadequate kit, and insufficient training in order to keep money back for wasteful and unnecessary, badly planned, late and non performing big-ticket items
Most of the budget is a make work programme for BaE systems, who take the piss on an epic scale.
but yeah, still better than funding some other feckers nuke programme.
I did believe she was BluLab. Today she confirmed it.
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….