Thread: Foreign Aid

Originally Posted by Major Sinic

Hi Octopus. I think your financial wires are getting crossed. The British Government have increased the British Taxpayers donation from an initial £6m TO £20m. In addition the British public have voluntarily donated, as of yesterday, a further £10m. In terms of the national debt of £176billion ranked up by Labour, this is a tiny drop in the ocean. To put it in perspective that is around £1.26p per family compared with around £12000 of national debt.

Sinic, that may be true figures for Haiti, but..

Originally Posted by inthenews.co.uk

Chancellor Alistair Darling has been urged not to implement big cuts in overseas aid in next week's Budget.

Reports suggest Mr Darling is considering cutting up to £860 million-a-year in planned aid spending.

The charity Oxfam has today warned such cuts would represent a betrayal of the millions of poor people around the world suffering as a result of the global recession.

In its 2007 spending review, the UK government pledged to provide £7.5 billion in overseas aid during 2009-10, but Oxfam claims the figure could be cut to £6.6bn next year.

Max Lawson, Oxfam senior policy advisor, said: "The government should not use the economic recession and statistical sleight of hand as excuses to cut aid to poor countries at the very time when they need it most.

"If all rich countries break their promises in this way, the $50 billion promised for developing countries at Gleneagles [G8 Summit] will be reduced by almost a fifth to just $41bn.

I think £7.5 Billion equates to £468.75 for every household in the country based on the 16 million household figure you quoted.

Originally Posted by Department for International Development

The government has committed £7.8billion to foreign aid for 2010-2011, up from £5.5billion in 2008-2009. This will increase further in the 2011-2012 fiscal year to £8.4billion and is expected to increase to £9.1billion in 2012-2013 reaching £10billion by 2015

The amounts given to major disasters are indeed drops in the Ocean...the ocean of tax payers money given away by these plebs!

It is time to close the tap and get our own house in order. Charity is fine if you can afford it, but when there are people starving in the UK, going without adequate homes and basic amenities, then this is not charity, but criminal negligence by the Government.