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Originally Posted by martyh
Why do they the Saudis need a governmental overseas aid department when they are clearly being quite generous and managing perfectly well to help other countries without one ,maybe we could learn a few lessons and start to ditch some of the beurocracy that seems to infest our government .
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Indeed.
Oh wait.
We have provided more funds for Syria than the 'rich' gulf states combined. Our aid budget is dramatically larger than Saudi Arabia's. As we don't discriminate by religion and refuse to provide aid to states that don't share our religious ideals we also have a more complicated job of deciding where it should go.
Maybe we and the many other donor nations with a foreign overseas aid department do have a point and don't simply have them for fun and unnecessary bureaucracy?
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Originally Posted by nomadking
I think you'll find that is the general idea and intention.
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Probably not given the abysmal manner in which nations are dealing with the issue.
We are portrayed as heartless, presumably for not allowing 'refugees' in en masse, a large proportion of which are purely economic migrants. The UK isn't that bad. Took in more refugees than Germany throughout the 2000s and are doing a fair bit to assist those in and around Syria. More than the rest of the EU combined, and certainly more than the super-wealthy gulf states.
https://www.gov.uk/government/upload...015.09.04_.pdf