DFID finally on its way

[shouldknowbetter]

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.

(Royalties to Madness)

I can’t believe you couldn’t shoehorn House of Fun in there too!

 

[Cold_Collation]

I can’t believe you couldn’t shoehorn House of Fun in there too!

Shut up.

 

[Tomasz Krachanaker]

It's not the people that are supposed to be helped by the foriegn aid budget that will lose out.

 

[oscar1whisky]

Will we be paying foreign aid to the EU when it crashes & burns?

We should buy it, make it part of the Commonwealth, and enforce English as the international languagr.

 

[FORMER_FYRDMAN]

It's not the people that are supposed to be helped by the foriegn aid budget that will lose out.

Child prostitution in the developing world may never recover...

 

[Tomasz Krachanaker]

Child prostitution in the developing world may never recover...

They'll manage.

 

[Simmerit]

Child prostitution in the developing world may never recover...

I’m sad for the people running luxury homes, range rovers, swimming pools, extended families, land purchases, hotel chains and everything else than foreign aid is spent on......

there are no financial controls in DFID. Foreign aid should be linked to our economic interests and foreign policy, not pursuing a load of **** millennium goals thought up by a bunch of snowflakes.

Great result today

 

[Chef]

On the news this morning some American from Mr Biden's team was whinging about how unfortunate it would be. Personally I always thought if Cameron had wanted to be known as a philanthropist I'd rather he'd used his money not mine to do it.

Given the amount of health tourism the NHS suffers from why not just give it to them, lock, stock and barrel?

 

[Filthy_contract]

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.

The problem is that the FCDO is now letting in comp and 'Academy' oiks as scholars.

 

[ExREME.TECH]

We should buy it, make it part of the Commonwealth, and enforce English as the international languagr.

he he

 

[AsterixTG]

Very quick glance at Baroness Sugg's CV - I bet she knows where the bodies are, especially for CMD.

 

[Yokel]

On the news this morning some American from Mr Biden's team was whinging about how unfortunate it would be. Personally I always thought if Cameron had wanted to be known as a philanthropist I'd rather he'd used his money not mine to do it.

Given the amount of health tourism the NHS suffers from why not just give it to them, lock, stock and barrel?

Why did Government commit to a figure, and not to something practical and useful such as providing clean water and/or safe sanitation to parts of the developing world that do not have it?

Instead Cameron came up with a figure that has to be spent no matter what.

 

[Cold_Collation]

Very quick glance at Baroness Sugg's CV - I bet she knows where the bodies are, especially for CMD.

Upper House at 43?

 

[Lifeboat21]

Overseas development should come under the MoD... not the FCO.

 

[slipperman]

Upper House at 43?

I mentioned this earlier up the thread. Her rapid elevation, given she was (at best) a run of the mill MP, is a prime example of all that is rotten at the heart of British Politics and Westminster.

 

[Cold_Collation]

Overseas development should come under the MoD... not the FCO.

Well, it's been lumped in as part of our 2 percent of GDP defence spend...

 

[anglo]

Upper House at 43?

Something like 40years

at +/- £300 a day, if she lives longer she'll get more,
just for turning up.​

 

[ExREME.TECH]

Something like 40years

at +/- £300 a day, if she lives longer she'll get more,
just for turning up.​

At least they don't get a pension

 

[anglo]

At least they don't get a pension

I could live [well] with that

 

[76mill]

Boris would be looking at a potential 100+ majority if he'd just binned DFID in its entirity and pledged the money for the UK instead.

In response to the hand wringing squeals of what about the children, a Churchillian response would have been along the lines of well if you're so effin concerned, stump up your own cash.

Once this country finally gets back on it's financial feet, then, and only then, should lobbing taxpayers money at the 3rd world even be considered.