Not very proud now then?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....foreign-aid-Army.html

/// voters should take the same pride in it as they do in the Armed Forces and the Queen, a senior minister said yesterday. ///

Well considering how much pride some ABers on here have in the Armed Forces or the Queen, they also won't be showing very much proud in our lavish spending on foreign aid then.

[jackthehat]

Another sour twist on a story.............

[ChuckFickens]

Any point to this "question" other than to get a dig in about other AB users?

[Bobbisox]

AOG I am proud of both of these, The Royals and , especially, our Armed Forces but we have been badly let down by concurrent MPs, but I will always be proud I have the chance to use my vote

[craft1948]

Funny bobbi I thought you were quite anti-royal..............I must be confusing you with someone else.

[askyourgran]

I don't want fecking admiration from the world, I want to get my pensions worth. I am proud of the armed forces and the Queen, but that Mp is talking out of the back of his watsit. Foreign aid should be stopped until we can call ourselves solvent again. Until we get a decent job market and get shut of all the illegals that are camping at our gates.

[Bobbisox]

you must, while I am sometimes against the waste of money that often happens with the Royals, but that is me having an opinion, I would rather we be a Sovereign nation than a Republic, craft you are very likely trawling back to something I said about the Royal Wedding? no doubt someone will fish this out

[Ankou]

yes i am

[Sqad]

An unfortunate simile from the MP,as he is assuming that "voters" do indeed have pride in the two examples given, but this does not apply to all voters, as highlighted by many threads on AB in the past.

[Manwithnoname]

AOG. For once you have it spot on. What a crock of, proud of letting our own people down by cutting & slashing backed by the IMF. Total disgraceful comment made by an idiot who lives in another world

[andy-hughes]

I'm not proud of our armed forces, or the queen - or the policy of foreign aid, so i guess I get a triple score from AOG on this one.

[anotheoldgit]

/// Any point to this "question" other than to get a dig in about other AB users? ///

Ease up Chuck, it was only a play on words, to a very stupid comment by a rather silly MP.

Others have managed to answer it (except of course the usual troublemakers) without the need to question the point of it.

[Gromit]

Aid saves or improves lives. Can there be a better reason for doing anything else?

[andy-hughes]

"Others have managed to answer it (except of course the usual troublemakers) without the need to question the point of it."

AOG - care to expand on to whom you refer as 'troublemakers' - and anything along the lines of 'They know who they are ...' will not suffice.

[Answerprancer]

So anyone who disagrees with you is "a troublemaker" ?
"...without the need to question the point of it" ah, dogma again.
You really do seem to want to be a dictator.

[askyourgran]

Gromit, there is a time and place for giving your well earned dough away. Right now we have a housing crisis, a hospital crisis, pensions and savings crisis, jobs and a ton of other things that we are stuck with because our elected MP's are useless.They would rather give it to foreigners who wlll be stashing it away in their private bank, it is like fillinga bottomless pit. My SIL needs drugs to prolong her life, can she have them - no chance- they are too expensive.

[Sqad]

Gromit ..I agree with AYG.....just under £10billion of overseas budget should improve many people's lot in an obvious and demonstrative way........I doubt whether it will.

Do you trust the motives of many leaders of African countries or indeed many Asian countries?

[anotheoldgit]

I notice that many were missing when I asked recently for volunteers for a 'Support an Immigrant' campaign.

Perhaps another idea would be for sympathetic volunteer taxpayers to have a set amount of money taken from their salaries to help fund the 'Overseas Aid', thus releasing a portion of the monies sent overseas by the government, to be spent on improving the lives of our own peoples?

Then all those that disagreed with it, or couldn't afford to donate, could have the choice to 'opt out'.

[bazwillrun]

"Aid saves or improves lives. Can there be a better reason for doing anything else? "

not in this country it doesnt

would you put someone elses family before your own if it was faced with a crisis ?

[jno]

I already do this, aog, as do a few others. It's called 'giving to charity'.