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And what parent sends their little girl six miles to get a bucket of sludge? Either move closer or get it yourself you lazy buggers.

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The thing is, no one likes us whether it's in Europe or in Africa, so let's stop sending them money and spend it here instead.

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Yeah exactly

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Yes, that occurred to me too when they used to put that advert on.

Absolutely true. In fact, the more I hear in the news I can't think of any country which actually does like us, but certainly not the ones we keep sending money to. In fact, I'm sure their rulers quietly laugh at us behind our backs.

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No argument from me.

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The last I read about the foreign aid pledge, only 4 countries was meeting the pledge, the UK being one of them. The rest of the countries just cannot be bothered and no one is telling them to meet their legal requirements.

There are worst countries in Europe who don't give anything to help the worlds poor or contribute the less but MP's and do-gooders never complain about these countries.

There are more countries in the Europe that contribute more to killing the environment than the UK but again, MP's and do-gooders never go after these countries.

There are worst countries in Europe who do far less to support immigration and asylum but again MP's and do-gooders never go after these countries.

Why aren't our MP's having a go at the countries who signed up to the agreement but have not met it. I don't see any MP or do-gooder having a go at France, or Germany, or Spain, or Italy and neither of those countries have ever met the 0.7% aid pledge but yet as soon as the UK government say it is going to reduce foreign aid, out come the complainers. They kept very very quiet about all the other countries not meeting their pledge but as soon as the UK decides to stop theirs, whoosh, out come the complainers.

The UK and it's people was not put on this earth to solve the rest of the worlds problems. It's about time these aid receiving countries started to learn to stand on their own two feet and if corruption and crime prevents that then sorry, but's that not our problem.

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I agree with all of that.

Why do our MPs seem to do all they can to sell this country out?

It's as if they are trying to sell themselves as being generous and showing the world that they'll do everything else to support the world, with the obvious exception of the British people.

Until we get rid of the current crop of MPs in parliament, this country is doomed to fail.

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Foreign aid has always been used as political leverage. A classic example of this was India and it's tender for new military aircraft to replace it's ageing aircraft. Many many years ago, India decided to update it's ageing military aircraft and the contract was put out to tender. A number of countries put their bids in, France, the US, the UK, Germany being the preferred bidders. At the time, the tabloid press were running articles stating that the UK government was extremely confident of winning the multibillion pound contract.

For weeks and then months the story kept appearing in the press with the same comments being made, that the UK government was supremely confident that the UK would win the contract. In amongst the articles would appear stories that the UK government was being overly confident of winning the contract because of the amount of foreign aid gives to India which is way way more than what other countries give to India. So on it went and then it got down to the last to bidders, the UK and France and still the UK government was confident of winning the contract but guess what, the contract went to France and the UK government was furious.

Out came the tabloid press articles claiming that the UK government believed that they was convinced they was going to get the contract because of all the help the UK has given to India but it back fired spectacularly.

Foreign aid has and also will be used as political leverage.

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A luxury car dealership in London boasts about checking a Rolls Royce Phantom onto a plane at Heathrow destined for Zimbabwe for ‘one of our very good clients, who’s a minister there’

With the cut back in Foreign Aid he will have to struggle along with a Mercedes next year.

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Dodge, in the case involving India that you cited, did the UK then withdraw its aid? If not, then maybe it should have done on the basis not only of making a point, but also that some of the money that the Indian Govt might have had to spend on it's own domestic affairs (and which was being covered by aid) would now be handed to the French. Ie, UK aid is being handed to the French by proxy.