Just one in four support David Cameron over decision to spend billions on foriegn aid
15-04-2016, 20:20
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Just one in four support David Cameron over decision to spend billions on foriegn aid
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...riegn-aid.html
I was totally shocked at this article. Several years ago The Sun printed an article on the same subject.
But l read this article on page 11 of The Daily Mail. And DC is proud to support it, and plans to increase the aid.
He does this, whilst his own country, is in despair with severe cuts, and the unemployed have to depend on increased number of food banks.
One of the people he sends money to is Mugabe. Who splashes more money on himself, then his own people
So we know where DC thoughts lie, and its not the UK 
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15-04-2016, 21:01
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Re: Totally shocked at OUR foreign Aid
dodgy dave likes to fund the odd dictator or three and throw our money around as if it were his own [where ever that's squirreled away]
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15-04-2016, 21:12
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Re: Totally shocked at OUR foreign Aid
This countries problems aren't the same as the problems that (genuine) foreign aid is meant to target. Ebola and Syria should also make it clear that 'their' problems can soon become our problems. The world is interconnected and it's in our interest to help solve world problems.
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15-04-2016, 21:44
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Re: Just one in four support David Cameron over decision to spend billions on foriegn
Yes, BUT, l am talking about the money that WE AS TAXPAYERS, that DC, feels free and easy to send OUR money abroad. To so called POOR COUNTRIES, yet it ends up in dictators like Mugabe.
DC, should be spending OUR money, on this country first. I think its a disgrace that, this country is suffering severe cuts.
Yet, DC is freely sending OUR money, and l am talking BILLIONS here abroad
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15-04-2016, 22:32
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Re: Just one in four support David Cameron over decision to spend billions on foriegn
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Yes, BUT, l am talking about the money that WE AS TAXPAYERS, that DC, feels free and easy to send OUR money abroad. To so called POOR COUNTRIES, yet it ends up in dictators like Mugabe.
DC, should be spending OUR money, on this country first. I think its a disgrace that, this country is suffering severe cuts.
Yet, DC is freely sending OUR money, and l am talking BILLIONS here abroad
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Frankly Arthur you have no idea what real poverty looks like..It's walking miles to get dirty filthy water out of a mud hole. It's taking a day to get to the nearest hospital where if you are lucky there are actually medicines, let alone medical staff..No fridges,no washing machines, no TV,no electricity..
These are the people who are leaving their homes to find their way to Europe where life is better than were they come from.
IF we don't give aid then there will be more and more and more arriving across the Mediterranean.I'd say we aren't giving enough.
As for the corrupt like Mugabe getting their hands on aid money that's down to poor organisation which is what should be addressed..there are ways to give aid directly to those who need it and bypass corrupt governments.
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16-04-2016, 07:49
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Re: Just one in four support David Cameron over decision to spend billions on foriegn
We're a rich country and its 0.7% of our GDP. Makes a significant difference if properly directed; something we can be proud of. Collecting taxes from those that avoid it is where we want to be looking for revenue.
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16-04-2016, 07:56
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Re: Just one in four support David Cameron over decision to spend billions on foriegn
The trouble is in a lot of these poor countries the governance is extremely poor and a awful lot of the money given to them disappears and l see nothing which says that has improved sadly.
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16-04-2016, 09:26
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Re: Just one in four support David Cameron over decision to spend billions on foriegn
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16-04-2016, 09:31
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Re: Just one in four support David Cameron over decision to spend billions on foriegn
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Given the brutal way the Chancellor has been cutting local authority grants while shifting ever more responsibilities onto them and following up by blaming them for being unable to fund them I find it entirely believable.
For those who aren't fans of Breitbart: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016...ing-next-year/
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16-04-2016, 10:34
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Re: Just one in four support David Cameron over decision to spend billions on foriegn
They've ring-fenced themselves in...
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16-04-2016, 10:59
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Re: Just one in four support David Cameron over decision to spend billions on foriegn
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No, it's not true, as it doesn't count council tax, business rates, etc., that Councils also raise/spend on Local Government - Central Government grants are around 60% of Council Revenue.
Having said that, I believe that some of the DfID money should be re-allocated to support Social Welfare needs in the UK.
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16-04-2016, 11:16
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Re: Just one in four support David Cameron over decision to spend billions on foriegn
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No, it's not true, as it doesn't count council tax, business rates, etc., that Councils also raise/spend on Local Government - Central Government grants are around 60% of Council Revenue.
Having said that, I believe that some of the DfID money should be re-allocated to support Social Welfare needs in the UK.
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got any facts to back that up i only ask because when you have you usually post them .
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16-04-2016, 11:18
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Re: Just one in four support David Cameron over decision to spend billions on foriegn
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got any facts to back that up i only ask because when you have you usually post them .
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https://new.eastsussex.gov.uk/yourcouncil/finance/guide
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Overall, local government spending is paid for by three main sources:
Central Government − 61%
Business rates − 17%
Council tax − 22%
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16-04-2016, 11:23
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Re: Just one in four support David Cameron over decision to spend billions on foriegn
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We're a rich country and its 0.7% of our GDP. Makes a significant difference if properly directed; something we can be proud of. Collecting taxes from those that avoid it is where we want to be looking for revenue.
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Properly directed...
I'm not a believer, especially when we commit to a figure & in the final months run around like headless chickens to ensure we spend all of the money.
It's a joke, and the 0.7% thing needs to be repealed, although I suspect in the coming times a lot of the Foreign aid money will be directed here where we have migrants...
It's hard to have much credence in a Govt that cries poverty, axes everything in sight, then *gives away* 12 Billion+ annually of *our* money.
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16-04-2016, 12:17
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Re: Just one in four support David Cameron over decision to spend billions on foriegn
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well that tells me how east Sussex council finance works what it doesn't do is answer the question about foreign aid spending unless its hidden some where
---------- Post added at 13:17 ---------- Previous post was at 12:29 ----------
Local government funding at the Spending Review 2015
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/l...ng-review-2015
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