"Britain sends £13.4billion of taxpayers’ money overseas in aid each year."

. . . and all the while hospital corridors are being occupied by patients on trolleys waiting 12 hours for a bed and medical attention, the completion of the biggest new hospital in the country now halted (as newly-redundant Carillion directors depart to sunnier climes with shed-loads of money, saying to UK taxpayers as they pack their cases, 'Thanks, suckers! We couldn't have gone without your help.'), 4/5-hour waiting times at A&Es, our roads infrastructure disintegrating, income tax and council taxes about to increase, (and I could go on but what's the bloody point!). And yet here we have billions - not millions but billions EACH YEAR?? Work that out over the past 3 decades, and most of it ending up in the Swiss bank accounts of rogues and despots of the recipient countries? If all this isn't an indicator of the insanity which is now endemic in this liberal-obsessed, 'We're out-do-gooding all others with our taxpayer pounds - not our own of course. Why, the very idea!', country of mine, nothing is.

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/9...ly-express-readers-theresa-may-downing-street

I now confidently predict some **** will accuse me of whining/moaning.

 

I didn't know t**t with 'wa' in the middle was a banned word. Why is it that only rude words for the female orifice are banned, yet everything else goes? 'Tis a puzzlement!

 

Well I say better to send it abroad than dangle it out here, incentivising the masses in other countries to come and get it.

 

good ol' Britain keeping up with the Jone's... makes me all warm and fuzzy to know that we're doing our bit to maintain other people's shitepoke little countries....yay us......

 

Try Berk.....the yanks don't know about ryming slang.....Berkshire Hunt.....or Kenny Everett's cupit stunt.... or if you want to be inclusive and politically correct you could go for it in Polari...clevie.....

 

The worst is that we have only drawbacks : our country not only pay incredible amount of money toward those countries BUT they have to be flooded by so called refugees, who once they are in the country end often on social care and a lot of them end as criminals (not all BTW).

 

So with that in mind, and at the rate I quoted, how long would it be before our generosity bankrupted the Bank of England and we have to go around the world with our own begging bowl. What kind of weird logic is that fgs? The intelligent thing to do would be to incentivise them not to come here, and start thinking of our own deprived for a change, don't you agree?

 

No, the idea is to overtake the Jonses and be right up there at the top, not just keep up with 'em? What does it matter that those on low and average wages feel the pinch, whilst they ('they' being those who occupy the leather seats in the Westminister talking-shop?) play the Lady Bountiful, whilst working 4-day weeks, getting 10 weeks holiday a year, plus subsidised restaurants and travel allowances to and from 'work', will scarcely notice the difference.

 

You'll have to explain that one? And to use Cupid Stunt instead of the word itself would rather interrupt the rhetorical flow of the text, and you know what an anorak I am in my grammatical presentation?

 

Attn Scotty (All in the best possible taste! naturellement?}

 

Polari.... gay slang.....nothing like getting your fangles on a dolly pair of bijou zhooshy pert willets.....

 

ah memories....he was card wasn't he....

 

Wish I hadn't asked!

 

Broadening your world view.....

 

And other places.

 

Nah, what are 13.4 billions for GB - pocket money.

Bread & circuses, Mr. Cerberus, bread & circuses.

 

That's a lot of hookers.

 

or the Oxfam budget...??

 

Yep, whinge. Given we benefit from trade relations in favour of the 'rich North' and we have generated notable harm through imperialism, its a minor correction.

We're historically sneaky mind you. 'Aid' has in the past gone hand in hand with arms deals. Feed em so they can kill em!

 

lol Like 'small change from the biscuit tin'?

 

sad but true....I spent quite a bit of time in Malawi and we came in contact with a lot of the aid agency types in the hotel bars; in Malawi it wasn't guns but the amount of cash that went into the back pockets of "officials" was staggering. The "gratitude" we had to show to a certain "offical" in the Reserve Bank in Blantyre for a US transfer out of the country was quite impressive.

 

And the problems is that our countries aren't only excepted to send billions of aids, but they're excepted too to accept many poor migrants.

 

Right - they probably think we're bonkers. Oh we are bonkers - silly me! It works something like this - we give them a notional million pounds in overseas aid a year; 80% ends up in Swiss banks, and 20% is used to buy our exports, meaning we're giving away our manufactured goods gratis? The economics of the madhouse!

 

It's like socialism... Thinking countries with more should give more, it's lunacy.

 

If you think rich people should pay more tax in the UK because they're rich, but think the UK shouldn't give aid because, let's face it, we're rich, then IDK.