Nearly 200 aid organisations and charities have called on Boris Johnson to reconsider his decision to scrap the Department for International Development (Dfid).
The groups, which include Save the Children and ActionAid, said merging the government ministry with the Foreign Office was an ”unnecessary and expensive distraction”.
Ah, the squeals from the usual troughers. There is no need for a government department for international aid, because we should not be indulging in it in the first instance. Charity should be a matter of personal conscience, not government.
Unfortunately, the third sector has become big business for these so-called charities that are happy to raid our wallets without our agreement and piss it up the wall on their pet projects, while siphoning off fat salaries for their CEOs, of course.
I don’t think that Boris has gone anywhere near far enough. He should have simply turned off the tap and closed the Dfid completely, not merged it with the Foreign Office.
In a letter to the prime minister, 188 humanitarian and development charities, NGOs and think tanks said the move suggested the UK was “turning its back on the world’s poorest people”.
Classic example of shroud waving. Even if this was true, which it isn’t, government is under no obligation to do anything about the world’s poor, for that is not its role. Its role is to govern this country and not one thing more. However, what these wasteful, useless bodies are really worried about is the gravy train hitting the buffers and the sooner that happens, the better. The squealing is a delight to hear.
Merge it with the Home Office and call it the Department for National Development.
“Flak”
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Meh. It’s an alternative spelling.
They seem to think that highlighting the number of these scroungers somehow reinforces their argument.
No it doesn’t, it shows how much they need culling.
I wouldn’t put it past Boris to do a U-turn as soon as the heat rises a bit
True. I never did think he had any real principles beyond his own personal ambitions, but it looks as though I was more right than I realised.