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UK Aid for Other Countries
tony6403
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We are to continue unreduced expenditure on foreign aid at the rate of £7bn per annum.
Some countries have at last been removed from the list of recipients , for example, the second largest economy in the world China.
India remains as a country to receive our handouts.
I am not uncharitable but India has its own foreign aid budget (as I understand things it pays out £350m to poor countries) , it has more billionaires than the UK and it has a space exploration programme.
At the same time we are closing libraries etc.etc.
£7bn would help towards bringing down the cost of our diesel/petrol and thereby assist in keeping inflation down.
We should suspend or reduce our foreign aid by the same amount as internal budgets and resume it when our economy has recovered.
Some countries have at last been removed from the list of recipients , for example, the second largest economy in the world China.
India remains as a country to receive our handouts.
I am not uncharitable but India has its own foreign aid budget (as I understand things it pays out £350m to poor countries) , it has more billionaires than the UK and it has a space exploration programme.
At the same time we are closing libraries etc.etc.
£7bn would help towards bringing down the cost of our diesel/petrol and thereby assist in keeping inflation down.
We should suspend or reduce our foreign aid by the same amount as internal budgets and resume it when our economy has recovered.
Forgotten but not gone.
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