No sooner than ‘call me Dave’ is back in politics than he wants to piss away money we don’t have.
David Cameron is marking his return to frontline politics by saying he wants to unlock billions of dollars for foreign aid over the next decade, as part of a “moral mission” to help the world’s poorest people.
In a remarkable change of tone for a government that closed the Department for International Development and slashed the foreign aid budget, the former prime minister is to say he wants to push for the restoration of aid’s status in British foreign policy.
Cameron, who was appointed foreign secretary by Rishi Sunak on Monday in an astonishing political comeback, is to write in a foreword to a new international development white paper that foreign aid is even more vital, but more difficult than when he was last in office.
It is not vital. There should be no foreign aid. I’m cool with helping out with practical help in an emergency, but otherwise, fleecing the British taxpayer is thoroughly wrong. If he wants to give his own money away, then he is free to do so. I have never given consent for my money to be given away and I never will. I very much suspect that I am not alone.
At a point where government incompetence has lead to rising energy costs, mortgage increases and basic living costs going up, this twat has shown us just how tone deaf he is. It’s almost like the twats want to lose the next election.
The internationalist tone will probably infuriate the Tory right, already angry that Cameron’s return signals a rush to the political centre ground, while his failure to formally commit extra public money to aid will dismay many charities.
That’s a strange definition for ‘centre ground.’ Clearly the Overton window has passed them by. The centre ground is now the far right, as indeed, I and others who think like me are regularly called.
As for the charities looking to dip their dirty little fingers into our wallets, they can fuck right off. If people don’t want to support them, they they go broke and disappear, which is what should happen to most of these so called fake charities.
The white paper focuses on new policy approaches and ways of leveraging extra state and private funds for aid, which Cameron says could “unlock hundreds of billions of dollars over the next decade”. It does not change the economic preconditions set by Sunak for a return to spending 0.7% of GDP, after the aid budget was cut to 0.5% in 2020.
Even 0.5% is 0.5% too much. There should be no foreign aid budget. All charity should be private. In fact, if the governments across the world just got the fuck out of everyone’s lives, more people might be inclined to dib in. And if there weren’t crippling import tariffs, farmers in poor countries could sell more easily on the open market and drag themselves out of poverty. If ‘call me Dave’ and the other cretins in government actually listened to third world farmers, he would know that this is what they want – trade, not aid.
The white paper has been deliberately structured by its lead author, development minister Andrew Mitchell, to go through to 2030 in the hope that Labour would pick up its themes in what Mitchell describes as “the highly unlikely event” of the Conservatives losing the next election.
That’s delusional, right there. They really have no idea what is going on outside the Westminster bubble.
Hang them. Hang them all.
A part of me is hopeful as these people get more and more mental and more and more detached from the realities of ordinary people’s lives. If there is going to be any kind of political realignment this is the kind of thing that will get us there.
There is that.
Presumably this creature is looking for some gauleiter position with globo-filth central and a way of winning brownie points (pun intended!) is clearly to plunder this country to curry (pun intended!) favour.
The only way I would agree with giving money to third world shit holes is if it was spent on removing their despotic “governments” and re-colonising them.
My cynical take is that David Lord (Help Us) Cameron is angling to roll his Foreign Secretaryship into the (probable) next Labour Government. Heaven knows they are short of front bench talent too.
If bringing David Lord (Help Us) Cameron back to political life is an affront to many Conservatives imagine how many Labour voters will be incensed. Although David Lord (Help Us) Cameron could team up with Tony (Weapons of Mass Destruction) Blair…
Well, he was the heir to Blair.
Just read this out to wifey, who replied ”won’t be any need to send any money out soon they’ll all be here getting it straight from the teat”
Cameron always was a soppy useless twat and bugger all has changed since his vanishing act after losing the referendum.
Every day that passes the Conservative party becomes a shadow of its former self. They are committing scorched earth.
“Unlock billions of dollars”
1. Dollars?
2. “Unlock” makes it sound like he already has these billions but has forgotten his PIN.
It’s an alpha-numeric code John; WEF666.
Are we still sending cash to the poor, starving Indians?
In theory, foreign aid is a good idea, after all, who could possibly object to a rich person giving part of his wealth to a poor person. However, in practice, it’s more like taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries*. Not a good idea.
* Not an original thought, I forget where I first heard it described that way.
Not original, but rue nonetheless.
I read recently, that leaders of Hamas are living in luxury in Qatar, sitting on top of $15 billion (while the Palestinians they care about are living in shit). They got some of this money through smuggling through the Gazan tunnels they claim don’t exist, though how did they get the rest? Paper rounds? I would suggest that foreign aid from the numpties in successive British governments had something to do with it. Also, Dim Dave refers to ‘poorer countries’. Which countries is he referring to (India has already been mentioned earlier)? Countries which are beset by warring factions, either politically or religiously. Stop the wars, rebebuild, and we’ll help you. Otherwise, not a penny. If kids are starving in Yemen, it’s because the political leaders of the various factions in Yemen are letting them starve while banking the aid meant for the people..
I’m not worried. Useless arse will be back boring the residents of Chipping Norton this time next year. Chances of him being kept on by Sir Kneel are close to zip.
Too tainted even for Liebour.