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meercatsunited
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These fund raising events have been going for as long as I can remember and the countries featured are always the same.
We know that in the earlier days the donations were lining the dictators pockets and used for the armed forces.
Does any of this money go to the UK.
We read of the mother with young children being denied cancer treatment because it will only prolong life and not cure.
Recently a young child going to go blind when she could have her sight saved because they said the treatment is too costly.
Dementia sufferers were having to wait until they reach the latter stages before a drug known to arrest it is issued because again too costly...they may have changed this one by now but these are just a few of the very real reasons we in the UK need money.
we are becoming a third world country and I know lots of you will object but as a lucky survivor of having cancer twice I have personally seen what goes on and no longer give to any charity that supports those outside the UK.
We know that in the earlier days the donations were lining the dictators pockets and used for the armed forces.
Does any of this money go to the UK.
We read of the mother with young children being denied cancer treatment because it will only prolong life and not cure.
Recently a young child going to go blind when she could have her sight saved because they said the treatment is too costly.
Dementia sufferers were having to wait until they reach the latter stages before a drug known to arrest it is issued because again too costly...they may have changed this one by now but these are just a few of the very real reasons we in the UK need money.
we are becoming a third world country and I know lots of you will object but as a lucky survivor of having cancer twice I have personally seen what goes on and no longer give to any charity that supports those outside the UK.
:cool: Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.
Sometimes age just shows up all by itself
In the end, it's not the years in your life
that count....it's the life in your years
Sometimes age just shows up all by itself
In the end, it's not the years in your life
that count....it's the life in your years
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I think the opposite.
Every time I pay tax in the UK, I pay for people to be given things by the UK state. A number of countries in Africa don't provide their citizens with anything. I donate to Comic Relief for those Africans who have nothing and are given nothing.There is no excuse for rudeness. Ignorance on the other hand is excusable – you don’t know what you’re talking about.0 -
meercatsunited wrote: »Does any of this money go to the UK.
Comic Relief state that no one in the UK is more than 30 miles from a project that has benifited from their funding.
I'm sure if you look on the CR website you'll find more detailed info.Some days you're the dog..... most days you're the tree!0 -
meercatsunited wrote: »T
We know that in the earlier days the donations were lining the dictators pockets and used for the armed forces.
No we don't. If that was the "royal we" then I don't think you do either.0
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