Britain has announced it is to double it's aid contribution to Pakistan to £64 million.........

[joeluke]

..........Isn't that £64 million too much?

http://www.politicsho...tan_to_%C2%A360m.html

[Thomas]

64 million won't go very far. Needs to be at least trebled.

[12thPaladin]

Time for me to go lie down in that dark room again.

[daffy654]

It's about time these huge amounts of money for overseas aid were stopped. For a country needing to save money we sure spend a lot!

[philkool]

its a bloody disgrace

[12thPaladin]

£64M buys a lot of passports and explosives.

[12thPaladin]

Gimme a past example tony, please I'm ignorant

[Thomas]

What's a bloody disgrace phil, too much, or not enough?

[philkool]

64 pence is too much ,

[steg]

i would rather the 64 million went to help the sick kids in this country

[philkool]

maybe we get the contract to build missiles for them ? dry ones that is.

[joeluke]

Exactly, charity begins at home

[philkool]

just suppose we had a sunami cover the uk, how would we cope with no money ? cos we gave it all away

[joeluke]

We give £64m+ to a country which harbours terrorists who want to bomb our country!

I'll get me coat

[12thPaladin]

Tony,
give your money to a corrupt regime and wonder how it was spent.

[12thPaladin]

and some seeds fell on stoney ground...

[askyourgran]

Aid has been doled out to these countries for as long as I can remember, starving flyblown children shoved in front of the tv cameras to earn a few more quid. It is like trying to filli a bottomless pit, it will never ever be different. What I can't understand is why the donor countries don't use the aid money to build the houses,flood defences etc.to show where the money is going. What is wrong with the Pakistani Government there, why haven't they got something in place to combat all these crises that they seem to get all the time how has the money been used before.
The relatives here (20 times removed) are sticking their fingers up to us. They are sending their money back to their relatives from the benefits they get,
Tonyted do you mean the Pakistani government pay us £100million for the trade contracts. Why don't they spend this money on their problems instead of giving us contracts? simples, Or explain what you mean