Humanitarian? Don’t make me laugh! It’s being binned because the local kleptocracy don’t GAF about their own!
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DFID finally on its way
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BuckFelize
LE
Maintaining a global soft power footprint via 'aid' is merely a very expensive way of keeping African despots' WAGs in Chanel, Prada and Gulfstream trips to Paris. It's a piss-take of biblical proportions and needs binning in its entirety. Our 'influence' hasn't exactly stopped the Chinese has it?
Merging DFID with the FCO puts a crimp in the luxury car-purchasing programme of assorted lumps of kleptocratic scum in hot places and derails the gravy train for holier than thou parasites in this country who will now have to rely on private organisations to subsidise their hobby of patronising dusky foreigners of limited means.
Crises.
And your opinion on this is even less literate than your spelling.
In my opinion, of course...
bob_the_bomb
LE
Well it also happened as well when DFID was called ‘ODA’ and was part of, er, the FCO.
squiffy
Old-Salt
obviously negates any argument having a spelling mistake. might as well take arrse offline in that case....
Certainly, it's a point that's been made in terms of the ubiquity of some charities. What runs from/for the charities must also pertain in terms of 'official' aid.
If lots and lots is 'Made in Britain', 'British' or 'Gift of...' then we quite reasonably must seem like some Shangri-La.
Sure, but the slush fund wasn't ring-fenced and guaranteed by Act of Parliament and the FCO isn't entirely staffed by people who seem to hate this country and all it stands for.
Danny_Dravot
LE
Think of the FCO as a proper traditional public school and DfID as an upmarket over-performing comp or small town independent. On the face of it they appear very similar, only analysis of their DNA reveals stark differences.
I'm glad you see my point. Sadly the main one sailed right over your noggin.
squiffy
Old-Salt
Not at all, just ignored it.
However, if a position opens for a pedantic -insert suitable noun- on arsse, are you available?
There's a roster, didn't you know?
exbleep
LE
Not much of a change, then.
No cuts to Aid
Also seem to recall when the ODA came under the FCO previously, the criticism of Mercedes getting the bulk of it was around then as well. One of the reasons the DFID was set up and removed from the FCO was to try and stop the number of slush funds in tax havens. That worked well.
No cuts to Aid
Also seem to recall when the ODA came under the FCO previously, the criticism of Mercedes getting the bulk of it was around then as well. One of the reasons the DFID was set up and removed from the FCO was to try and stop the number of slush funds in tax havens. That worked well.
slipperman
GCM
Foreign Office minister resigns as Sunak cuts aid budget
Lady Sugg hands in resignation after overseas aid cut by a third
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All you need to know is she is a former aid to David Cameron, who was awarded a CBE in Cameron’s controversial resignation Honours List and she was elevated to the House of Lords in 2016 - she’s 43 and never worked outside Politics.
Off you go and mind your arse on the way out of the door!
About bloody time! But, oh dear, what’s this? A ‘senior’ Tory resigning in protest at the cruel cuts? Baroness Suggs (who?) resigns over Sunak cuts to Foreign Aid.Foreign Office minister resigns as Sunak cuts aid budget
Lady Sugg hands in resignation after overseas aid cut by a third
All you need to know is she is a former aid to David Cameron, who was awarded a CBE in Cameron’s controversial resignation Honours List and she was elevated to the House of Lords in 2016 - she’s 43 and never worked outside Politics.
Off you go and mind your arse on the way out of the door!
I feel rather sorry for all those foreign despots who're going to have to make do with their current luxury car fleet and clubbing their enemies to death for the forseeable.
slipperman
GCM
You have to feel for all those exclusive Paris Luxury Department Stores too. COVID, swiftly followed by this. There’ll be Tears!
dun_n_dusted
LE
Will we be paying foreign aid to the EU when it crashes & burns?
Sadly, Baroness Suggs will be going nowhere, not even on the Night Boat to Cairo. She has a season ticket for the ever-running gravy train, which is definitely not A Train That Never Comes, and she'd never dream of taking One Step Beyond the Lords back into the real world. She's An Embarrassment.About bloody time! But, oh dear, what’s this? A ‘senior’ Tory resigning in protest at the cruel cuts? Baroness Suggs (who?) resigns over Sunak cuts to Foreign Aid.Foreign Office minister resigns as Sunak cuts aid budget
Lady Sugg hands in resignation after overseas aid cut by a third
All you need to know is she is a former aid to David Cameron, who was awarded a CBE in Cameron’s controversial resignation Honours List and she was elevated to the House of Lords in 2016 - she’s 43 and never worked outside Politics.
Off you go and mind your arse on the way out of the door!
(Royalties to Madness)
Sarah Champion MP, chair of the international aid select committee, said the cut in aid was devastating. She said: “Within six months a specialist development government department has been scrapped, this year’s budget has already been slashed and next year’s too by even more. I think we can wave goodbye to the development superpower status that we have proudly had for so long.”About bloody time! But, oh dear, what’s this? A ‘senior’ Tory resigning in protest at the cruel cuts? Baroness Suggs (who?) resigns over Sunak cuts to Foreign Aid.Foreign Office minister resigns as Sunak cuts aid budget
Lady Sugg hands in resignation after overseas aid cut by a third
All you need to know is she is a former aid to David Cameron, who was awarded a CBE in Cameron’s controversial resignation Honours List and she was elevated to the House of Lords in 2016 - she’s 43 and never worked outside Politics.
Off you go and mind your arse on the way out of the door!
Oh Dear, how sad!
And the property and banking sectors in Switzeland!
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