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While Our Own Nhs Is Struggling, Should We Still Pump £160 Million Into Kenya's Health Service?
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Because I've been reading up on the subject, and am happy with the level of aid we give.
UK aid is spent where it is most needed and is subject to rigorous internal and external checks and scrutiny at all stages.
The government has realigned the UK’s aid strategy, cutting wasteful programmes and making sure spending is firmly in the UK’s national interest.
Alongside an increased defence budget and the UK’s world class diplomatic service, our aid programme is helping to create a more prosperous and stable world in which the UK can stand tall and flourish.
This is an approach that works; it has helped reduce the threat to the UK from Ebola in West Africa, it is targeting the root causes of the migration crisis, and it is increasing economic prospects in fragile states to counter extremism and help build our future trading partners.
The world is changing, and our strategy on aid needs to change with it. That is why over the last 3 years the DFID has restructured our aid budget to ensure that it is focussed on tackling the great global challenges – from the root causes of mass migration and disease, to the threat of terrorism and global climate change – all of which also directly threaten British interests.
They are inextricably linked.
I totally understand that others hold different views - but this is why I support the aid budget and the current strategies for dispersement.
Because I've been reading up on the subject, and am happy with the level of aid we give.
UK aid is spent where it is most needed and is subject to rigorous internal and external checks and scrutiny at all stages.
The government has realigned the UK’s aid strategy, cutting wasteful programmes and making sure spending is firmly in the UK’s national interest.
Alongside an increased defence budget and the UK’s world class diplomatic service, our aid programme is helping to create a more prosperous and stable world in which the UK can stand tall and flourish.
This is an approach that works; it has helped reduce the threat to the UK from Ebola in West Africa, it is targeting the root causes of the migration crisis, and it is increasing economic prospects in fragile states to counter extremism and help build our future trading partners.
The world is changing, and our strategy on aid needs to change with it. That is why over the last 3 years the DFID has restructured our aid budget to ensure that it is focussed on tackling the great global challenges – from the root causes of mass migration and disease, to the threat of terrorism and global climate change – all of which also directly threaten British interests.
They are inextricably linked.
I totally understand that others hold different views - but this is why I support the aid budget and the current strategies for dispersement.
As I said earlier. When we do t need it. When we pay less tax or at the very least have no increase in tax.
But that isn't going to happen is it. We will get sub standard services and higher taxes to try to stem the hemeraging of money into poorly run services simply because there is no one in the right places with the guts to say it like it is.
But that isn't going to happen is it. We will get sub standard services and higher taxes to try to stem the hemeraging of money into poorly run services simply because there is no one in the right places with the guts to say it like it is.
When people say "charity begins at home" I want to respond by saying home is planet Earth. As far as we know we are the only sentient beings in an unimaginably vast universe. It's cold out there.
Why are we saying "This stuff belongs to our arbitrarily bounded region, so you over there who are poorer can't have any of it"?
Why are we saying "This stuff belongs to our arbitrarily bounded region, so you over there who are poorer can't have any of it"?
Because Cloverjo we have to pay for it. And that payment seems to usually have started as a result of the shame of colonialism and the seemingly British need to apologise with cash for our forebears attitudes.
I'm not talking about charity begins at home. I am talking about the 'free' services you, me and the rest of the country expect at the drop of a hat. If you cannot balance the books the thing that stops is outside payments that have little or no benefit to the people around you.
If we were to say to you, you don't and haven't paid enough into the aid budget give us 5%,10% or maybe even 15% of whatever income you have and we will give it away and you are happy with that then go for your life. Give it to the government to send elsewhere. But it won't be enough. It will need to be 50% or more to make the rest of the world even slightly better.
If you are happy to see your neighbours, people you see everyday, people you care about turned away from treatment that would ease their pain or make their life better, if you would rather send money to a country elsewhere then I don't think it would make a blind bit of difference what anyone said.
I'm not talking about charity begins at home. I am talking about the 'free' services you, me and the rest of the country expect at the drop of a hat. If you cannot balance the books the thing that stops is outside payments that have little or no benefit to the people around you.
If we were to say to you, you don't and haven't paid enough into the aid budget give us 5%,10% or maybe even 15% of whatever income you have and we will give it away and you are happy with that then go for your life. Give it to the government to send elsewhere. But it won't be enough. It will need to be 50% or more to make the rest of the world even slightly better.
If you are happy to see your neighbours, people you see everyday, people you care about turned away from treatment that would ease their pain or make their life better, if you would rather send money to a country elsewhere then I don't think it would make a blind bit of difference what anyone said.
Thanks for your detailed response, sp.
I can only say that your faith in the UK government’s ability to distribute £11bn of taxpayers’ dosh to “where it is most needed” is a little stronger than mine. I know many of the tales one sees in organs like The Daily Mail must be taken with a pinch of salt. But there is no doubt that vast sums of UK aid money is misappropriated and badly spent (a fact admitted even by those responsible for doling it out).
“Why are we saying "This stuff belongs to our arbitrarily bounded region, so you over there who are poorer can't have any of it"?”
For the same reason as New Judge (over here who is poorer) can’t have any of Richard Branson’s or Bill Gates’s “stuff”. It is theirs, they earnt it and they should choose what they do with it. If you are suggesting that global wealth should be pooled and distributed equally I think we need more than AB’s 4,000 character allowance.
I can only say that your faith in the UK government’s ability to distribute £11bn of taxpayers’ dosh to “where it is most needed” is a little stronger than mine. I know many of the tales one sees in organs like The Daily Mail must be taken with a pinch of salt. But there is no doubt that vast sums of UK aid money is misappropriated and badly spent (a fact admitted even by those responsible for doling it out).
“Why are we saying "This stuff belongs to our arbitrarily bounded region, so you over there who are poorer can't have any of it"?”
For the same reason as New Judge (over here who is poorer) can’t have any of Richard Branson’s or Bill Gates’s “stuff”. It is theirs, they earnt it and they should choose what they do with it. If you are suggesting that global wealth should be pooled and distributed equally I think we need more than AB’s 4,000 character allowance.
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