What a hypocrite
 

www.themirror.co.uk Foreign aid.

David Cameron continues to annoy voters, by saying in today's edition that he will continue to give away Billions of tax payers money abroad in oversea aid, and plans to do it for the next twenty years.

He said that his policy is correct, and yet he plans to cut more in defence of OUR country.

He is nothing but a hypocrite who thinks only of his own beliefs, never mind his own voters.

He is even blocking tax breaks for married couple but he is talking now more of gay marriage, what planet is he on.

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He's a hypocrite because he is consistent and tries to act on his beliefs?

Can't find the Mirror story, but here is the BBC version http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21288823

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so wish I could swear but arrange the 2 worst you can possibly type and arrange them in the correct order and you have my opinion

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you look at this and you look at the benefit threads on this forum and it beggars belief that in the time of austerity he would be seen to throw even more money away I despair I really do

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For once we are in agreement.I think that ,although the bill is small in comparison to other budgets** we should spend as much as possible at home first, especially when we aren't supposed to be getting any actual benefit from foreign aid .

**I also think that the figures for foreign aid should include money spent at home for asylum seekers and refugees ,bet the numbers aren't so small then

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Yes, because the question of whether the government should pay benefits so that people can have a spare room in their homes is exactly the same as the question of whether we have any moral duty to help ensure some of the poorest children in the world can go to primary school, or drink water without dying of cholera.

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'We'... I wasn't asked.

I say he should be concentrating on sorting this country out first.

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It so annoyed me that we are throwing money at other countries when our own people are being made to suffer reductions in there standard of living. why is this money not being spent on us. We paid this money to the Government and WE should benefit from it. :mad:

I was never asked if my taxes are to be spent on other countries and if i was i would say SOD OFF

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they breed like rabbits in these countries they hold their hands out and do not help themselves . Morals and government? the two things do not go together

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I think we should be a bit more mercenary about it ,make sure we get something out of it and be open and honest about our intention to give money in return for something we want .
Also make sure we give nothing until we have 100% control on how it is spent and not being syphoned off for a dictators shoes or weapons

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slavery? (only jokin)

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Not that mercenary ;)

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:clap:

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Some would say ok to that as long as we are the ones selling them :rolleyes:

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We actually sell weapons or weapon components to countries we give aid money to .For example we will sell components for weapons ,such as software ,armour vehicles to Somalia ,then give them £63m per year in aid from the DFID .

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datab...st-interactive

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/where-we-work...thern/somalia/

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Trust me i would not want us selling weapons to countries who hold out the begging tray.

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That's what irritates me .We give aid as part of our moral obligation to less well off countries ,fine fair enough no problem with doing that at all.Then we find out that we are in fact partly to blame for the original hardship in the first place because our lords and masters didn't have morals enough to not sell weapons to them