Can we afford it?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.express.co...ls-in-Asia-and-Africa

Is there no end to our generosity, we have a right team here we might have as well all voted Lib/Dem, and Cameron should go over to them for all he is worth, as a Tory.

First we had the Gays can be married fiasco, then the plan to remove the need to display one's gender on pass-ports, so that transgenders don't feel embarrassed, all Lib-Dem ideas.

http://www.google.com...N0460821316422787599A

And now this dishing out of cash, when there are some of our own school children leaving school not able to read or write.

[emmie]

whichever paper you read, or watch the television news reports on how many schools in Britain lack amenities, and that classrooms are falling to pieces, they need books, computers, or indeed a new school, so there are problems, the basics by the way are surely reading, writing and arithmatic, or if you prefer mathematics.
If children are being taught the basics early on, then why are so many coming out of school unable to do many of those things.
And as i have already stated i am against foreign aid, the money could be better spent in Britain.

[New Judge]

He’s getting it from taxpayers, Dr F. Where else?

I’m not going into the whole overseas aid argument again. It was done to death in the “Aid vs Motorways” question as has been mentioned. But I do get a bit cross that government announcements are made at Party conferences – especially that of the party that came a bad third in the General Election.

The government seems convinced that the electorate are quite happy to spend huge sums on Overseas Aid. Well there’s a simple way to prove it. Return the £12bn to taxpayers (about £500 each on average) and suggest that they voluntarily donate it to an overseas charity of their choice. Then they can see for sure just how happy taxpayers are to pour money down the drain. You never know, some of them might donate the sum so that children overseas might be educated. But some of them might put it towards the £9k tuition fees they are going to have to find to have their own children educated.

[rov1100]

Is our government acting any differently from that trader of UPS who lost £1.5bn by throwing other peoples money on a lost cause hoping that they can become winners.

If AID helped these countries to progress the US would have hero worshippers in these backward countries. Instead they turn their revenge on the country that fed them. We never learn!

[Gromit]

Rov 1100

UPS is United Parcel Services... I don't think tney have had a problem with a Rogue Trader?