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**KnightsofRowallan** · 28-01-2010, 15:39

Originally Posted by vvaannmmaann

When you say "part funded",how big a part are we funding?

According to Hansard & FCO website. In 2009 it was £800m over 3 years.

hmmm, same amount as those Dole over payments.

**(B)old_Duffa** · 28-01-2010, 15:42

Originally Posted by C_lfc_25

Is there no place safe nowadays !!!!!, there will be asylum seekers near the moon soon.

But they'll have to wait til the paddys builds some roads up there before they can put their corner shops on it :D

**Mr_Deputy** · 28-01-2010, 15:43

Originally Posted by KnightsofRowallan

Originally Posted by vvaannmmaann

When you say "part funded",how big a part are we funding?

According to Hansard & FCO website. In 2009 it was £800m over 3 years.

hmmm, same amount as those Dole over payments.

bl00dy is as well!

do u think they did it to curry favour with Indians?

**OllieReeder** · 28-01-2010, 15:54

Presume three astronauts in the capsule and another twenty riding on the roof?

**Ancient_Mariner** · 28-01-2010, 16:25

Originally Posted by Semper_Flexibilis

Originally Posted by vvaannmmaann

When you say "part funded",how big a part are we funding?

Well, we bung India over £800 million in aid each year.

Now, being as how they are putting men on the moon, there are obviously no poor people in India no more so that FCO aid must be for spaceships rather than wells.

48% of Indian children are malnourished. There is famine in some parts of the country. The Indian Communist Party is already running some Indian states. Many of the biggest Indian companies pay no tax at all while the government hoses money at 'prestige' projects.

As a popular beat combo once said 'I predict a riot'.

**blonde_guy** · 28-01-2010, 16:30

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8484769.stm

Is this where some more of their money has been wasted? £0.6 billion on STATUES!!!

**maxi_77** · 28-01-2010, 16:43

Originally Posted by KnightsofRowallan

Originally Posted by vvaannmmaann

When you say "part funded",how big a part are we funding?

According to Hansard & FCO website. In 2009 it was £800m over 3 years.

hmmm, same amount as those Dole over payments.

So lets get this right we are giving India less that £1 per person every 3 years, bl**dy generous aren't we (2001 population was 1,028,610,32

I reckon that by 2016 India will have become more powerfull than China ecconomically, they are already catching up fast, and more frighteninly for us they are really eyeing up the high tech markets.

**angular** · 28-01-2010, 16:52

Originally Posted by maxi_77

Originally Posted by KnightsofRowallan

Originally Posted by vvaannmmaann

When you say "part funded",how big a part are we funding?

According to Hansard & FCO website. In 2009 it was £800m over 3 years.

hmmm, same amount as those Dole over payments.

So lets get this right we are giving India less that £1 per person every 3 years, bl**dy generous aren't we (2001 population was 1,028,610,32

I reckon that by 2016 India will have become more powerfull than China ecconomically, they are already catching up fast, and more frighteninly for us they are really eyeing up the high tech markets.

They take money from us because they're poor.

They spend their own money on space rockets because they can afford it.

We shut down the TA last year to save £20 Million, but we can give India £266M a year? Sorry, post-colonial guilt only goes so far. Ooh, it do make I cross.

**lsquared** · 28-01-2010, 16:54

2017 eh? The monocular oaf will doubtless be sending masses of our cash to India to help with the programme.

Meanwhile, we live with an Underground railway system in our capital city that fails on a daily basis.

**Ancient_Mariner** · 28-01-2010, 19:37

Originally Posted by maxi_77

Originally Posted by KnightsofRowallan

Originally Posted by vvaannmmaann

When you say "part funded",how big a part are we funding?

According to Hansard & FCO website. In 2009 it was £800m over 3 years.

hmmm, same amount as those Dole over payments.

So lets get this right we are giving India less that £1 per person every 3 years, bl**dy generous aren't we (2001 population was 1,028,610,32

I reckon that by 2016 India will have become more powerfull than China ecconomically, they are already catching up fast, and more frighteninly for us they are really eyeing up the high tech markets.

Spoke to some IT support chappies based in Gibraltar recently. They were Indian!

Undeniably, their technical skills could not be faulted. But the real reason Indian tech companies are conquering the world is because they are exempt from corporation tax in India. Compare with UK companies that pay 28% tax plus another 12.8% of their wage bill in the form of National Insurance. Don't even think about the cost of European directives, maternity leave (12 months from today IIRC), 'elf and safety, human rights innit, etc etc.

This is exacerbated by the fact that, in the UK, Indian workers are given a dispensation from UK income tax, national insurance and VAT. They also have 'on demand' access to the UK without having to go through the points system to obtain a work visa.

The bottom line is that a load of UK companies are sacking their British staff and replacing them with Indian contractors. I lunched in a BT canteen recently with a relative who works there. Of the dozens of diners, you could count the number of white faces on one hand.

Thanks Gordon.