Any suggestions on what we can spend this £21m on in Britain?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-20553872

[VHG]

Do you really think this 21 million is lying in a room somewhere just waiting to spent in the UK if it not given to Rwanda.

Of course it isn't, it is just part of the big goverment "pot" of money which is spent all all sorts of things.

And considering we are in debt, and the government are still borrowing huge amounts of money, maybe we should not spend it.

[anotheoldgit]

VHG

/// Do you really think this 21 million is lying in a room somewhere just waiting to spent in the UK if it not given to Rwanda. ///

Of course I don't, surely you must be intelligent enough to understand the real essence behind my post?

Incidentally isn't it also you who has made reference to a 'big pot of money'.

So if I were to take your line of thinking I could have answered "it isn't just lying in a room somewhere," it's stored in a big Government pot, in a room somewhere". :0)

[anotheoldgit]

VHG

/// And considering we are in debt, and the government are still borrowing huge amounts of money, maybe we should not spend
it. ///

Good point.

Or any of the other 'Millions of Pounds' we spend yearly on overseas aid.

[New Judge]

Unfortunately, as was demonstrated when the cessation of aid to India was announced, the cash will not be spent in the UK but simply given to another overseas hell-hole. The fact that such a sum might perhaps be spent on the people who had it forcibly taken from them is a complete anathema to those controlling the purse strings. Furthermore, because of the preposterous idea that 0.7% of GDP "must" be spent on overseas aid there is no prospect of the money being retained in the UK.

[jno]

you could spend it on five judicial inquiries whose findings you plan to ignore.

[Graham-W]

"Despite repeated requests, British aid officials in Rwanda were unable to provide specific examples of projects funded by British aid. Nor were they given permission to discuss them on the record. Requests for an interview with the international development secretary were declined."
"There is no democracy in Rwanda. There is no political space in Rwanda. There is no free press in Rwanda. There is no independent judiciary in Rwanda," says Ben Rawlence, an Africa expert at Human Rights Watch. "Senior opposition figures are all in jail, senior journalists are all in jail. There is no independent journalist operating any more. It's a very scary place."

Read it and weep. How long have we been supporting this regime?
I have no doubt at all that other "overseas aid" is being spent in exactly the same way. The poor get poorer and the fat cats get the cream.

[douglas9401]

You could buy a fraction of the triumph that is the Edinburgh tram project.
If it was happening in a third world country there would be letters.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Trams

[pdq1]

I'm sure there are many deserving causes but surely the top of the list would be:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-170371/Cuts-old-people-dying-cold.html

[jake-the-peg]

Well you could give all the pensioners an 8p per week rise

[anotheoldgit]

/// senior journalists are all in jail. There is no independent journalist operating any more. It's a very scary place." ///

Sounds like a look into Britain's future, if some would have their way.

[boxtops]

I'll have it, a teensy bit of it would help me and my colleagues to keep our jobs

[anotheoldgit]

jake-the-peg

/// Well you could give all the pensioners an 8p per week rise ///

Well at least that would make an increase of 33p per week for those over 80, so all one would have to do is to save up another 17p to enable one to send a letter via the 2nd class post.

/// When you reach 80 the state pension is automatically increased by 25 pence a week. ///

[pdq1]

You haven't read that article Jake. They are talking about 40,000 pensioners.
£21m divided by 40000 = £525 each

[dotty.]

a fortnight in cancun for everyone?

[Svejk]

Sorry to butt in but I just started reading AOGs Guardsman/Turba
n
thread earlier when I was/oh, let's be honest, I fell asleep.
I'd be interested to see the answers if someone would be kind enough to post a link here or bump thread back up. I've tried every combi in search engine thing.
Cheers.