DFID finally on its way

[Simmerit]

Boris Johnson announces end of the foreign aid 'cashpoint' in the sky

Prime Minister to put UK security first as he scraps international development department

www.telegraph.co.uk

Result.

 

[UKTAP]

Brilliant news. The end of jet-setting hand-wringing cúnts gallivanting around the world looking for ways to transfer hard working tax payers' money to evil regimes that would not think twice about destroying Britain.

Next step - block the Foreign Office from giving out Foreign Aid unless it is in direct and binding exchange for valuable goods and services.

Long overdue.

 

[AsterixTG]

Exactly, why have a whole department when we have Prince Andrew.

 

[UKTAP]

Exactly, why have a whole department when we have Prince Andrew.

It's the department for wasting taxpayers' money, not the department for shagging kids...

 

[BratMedic]

 

[AsterixTG]

It's the department for wasting taxpayers' money, not the department for shagging kids...

Multitasker.

 

[dingerr]

Next step - block the Foreign Office from giving out Foreign Aid unless it is in direct and binding exchange for valuable goods and services.

I disagree. Some of the foreign aid budget is/has been used to teach North Koreans English. It reaps no immediate benefit, but is likely to in the long term.

 

[Grumblegrunt]

long overdue, someone needs to be held to account and if there is nothing worth spending it on don't spend it.

personally i'd give it to the military to store, deliver, secure and maintain it rather than quangos who pay millions to their directors.

 

[FORMER_FYRDMAN]

The country needed some good news during these challenging times.

Hopefully this heralds the systematic derailing of multiple ultra-liberal left gravy trains and a trip to the abattoir for the various woke sacred cows which have grown fat grazing at the taxpayer's expense.

 

[AsterixTG]

The country needed some good news during these challenging times.

Hopefully this heralds the systematic derailing of multiple ultra-liberal left gravy trains and a trip to the abattoir for the various woke sacred cows which have grown fat grazing at the taxpayer's expense.

Be interesting to see if the dismantling results in all out war between some. The entitled really hate having the gravy train dry up.

 

[Simmerit]

I disagree. Some of the foreign aid budget is/has been used to teach North Koreans English. It reaps no immediate benefit, but is likely to in the long term.

I think we will see some considered spending by the FCO on things that support foreign policy objectives, and that one I'd say very fits with being in the national interest.

 

[FORMER_FYRDMAN]

Be interesting to see if the dismantling results in all out war between some. The entitled really hate having the gravy train dry up.

The main worry is that the DfID creatures end up polluting the Foreign Office (even more).

 

[Simmerit]

Be interesting to see if the dismantling results in all out war between some. The entitled really hate having the gravy train dry up.

There is no lost between FCO and DFID. It was never a happy relationship

 

[alfred_the_great]

Oh good - just what we need.

all about eye-catching headlines for the day, not a thought through process. Classic Dom.

 

[Himmler74]

Oh good - just what we need.

all about eye-catching headlines for the day, not a thought through process. Classic Dom.

You might a few my boats to play with!

 

[dogmeat]

By removing handouts to warlords, dictators and criminals, it will have more widespread, beneficial effect on black lives than pulling down a thousand statues.

 

[Simmerit]

Oh good - just what we need.

all about eye-catching headlines for the day, not a thought through process. Classic Dom.

I'm quite looking forward to the response by Sturgeon and Jockland. Scottish DFID?

Look on the bright side - the snowflakes will be up in arms as they have no idea our how much money is squandered by these people every year in their rush to give cash away so their budgets dont get cut, or funding luxury cars, boats, and lifestyles of some serious dodgy families in some seriously dodgy places, to name but three of four areas of squander.

 

[SkippedOnce]

The main worry is that the DfID creatures end up polluting the Foreign Office (even more).

I'm just surprised, seeing as how DfID and its predecessors were so much a Labour love child project, that its taken 5 years of Conservative government to put it to the sword.

 

[Sundog]

Thank fook for that. Hopefully F&CO will spend less money more effectively.

 

[old_n_fat]

I disagree. Some of the foreign aid budget is/has been used to teach North Koreans English. It reaps no immediate benefit, but is likely to in the long term.

True. How will they exploit intellectual property that they hack from English speaking countries, if they can't speak English.