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Foreign Aid – again!

Posted on April 4, 2016 | Comments Off on Foreign Aid – again!

Now I’ve banged on about Foreign Aid many times in the past, Charity, in my view, begins at home and we should look after our own people first. It’s certainly ridiculous to borrow money to give away. But it seems … Continue reading →

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Foreign aid? Fuck ’em!

Posted on June 9, 2015 | 8 comments

Say hello to Ian Birrel – a former speech writer for David Cameron. Ian reckons it’s bonkers to be handing over £12 billion to foreign despots and dictators when the Tories are planning to cut the same amount off the … Continue reading →

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At last, sense about aid

Posted on July 1, 2017 | 7 comments

I’ve written about the foreign aid budget several times previously. It’s a recurring theme with me just how we piss money up the wall to foreign dictators and countries with space programs and nuclear power industries. Basically it either gets … Continue reading →

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Water Aid

Posted on January 2, 2016 | 7 comments

What the fuck is the matter with the people running this country? Have they got any fucking idea at all how to treat their own people? Have they never heard that charity begins at home?  People up north are sinking … Continue reading →

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Aid or Armies? Guns or Gifts?

Posted on March 4, 2015 | 7 comments

I was staggered to learn yesterday that this country will be spending more on Foreign Aid than on it’s armed forces by 2031. Have we gone stark, staring, raving mad??? Research conducted by the House of Commons Library found aid … Continue reading →

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