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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
Iirc the aid to the rich country with nuclear weapons and a space programme had caveats in it that it had to be spent on security intelligence and sorting out madrasas, you know things for our benefit and didn't we kick up a stink when they had the temerity to purchase their fighter planes from someone else. There's always a caveat, normally to do with trade.
Why not stop and think about it for a second, the slime balls in charge of this country would like us to believe we really are that generous but we don't give nothing for nothing and we or our companies make money out of aid.
Don't let them fool you.
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Yep ,and i've been arguing for a while now that governments should give up the pretence of giving pots of money to any country with a begging bowl as an act of good will and tell it like it is .I would have no issue whatsoever with giving some African nation aid in return for something they can provide that we want .Giving Billions per year as good will to foreign countries whilst our own people are struggling with mental health ,and social care issues is only asking for trouble ,that's my view on Foreign aid anyway.
As for raising council tax to pay for more social care then fine do it but make sure that extra money does go towards social care and not simply swallowed up by local authority mis management