India And Covid - Foreign Aid

[Apc2604]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-56881083

https://www.thehindu.com/business/budget/budget-2020-spending-on-space-goes-up-by-8/article30715438.ece

I find this totally abhorrent. I am not suggesting we don't help, but surely this is complete madness.

[Apc2604]

Sorry posted toosoon. So very true. It could be our government's most serious mistake.

[Apc2604]

Agree Emmie.

[Espresso125]

121 billionaires in India. 4th highest in world ranking.
Just saying

[Peter Pedant]

hmm I dont think it is the billionaires dying in the streets of New Delhi

[emmie]

no its the poor dying in the streets, these are visions of hell, people lying in cars, ambulances, on the roadway, waiting to be seen by a doctor,nurse, just to get help. If this happened here there would be a riot.

[gulliver1]

It seems some aid is getting through to India from the UK at last . Why some people do not want us to help is Unbelievable.

[emmie]

we have been helping them with aid, money since heaven knows when, look it up if you don't believe me.

[emmie]

How much is UK giving to India?
The UK is to hand over £98m to India despite the country - which has spent almost the same on a lunar probe - now giving out more foreign aid than it receives. As part of the UK's aid budget, the Department for International Development (DfID) will give £52m this year and a further £46m in 2019/20.

[ummmm]

Things are different now, Emmie. This is worldwide and effects us all.

[emmie]

perhaps if some read the threads i said that we have been helping India - and now we should supply them withthe oxygen and PPE which seem in short supply.

[emmie]

this is a disaster that's been on the cards for India, what are the government of India doing for their people, because they are the ones who should be doing their utmost for their people. Help should be given i don't doubt, i have said so twice, im not saying it again.

[Apc2604]

There is noone on thehis thread who said we shouldn't help. Emmie is correct. People should read through properly and that includes my OP. But thats expected from a certain person who has limited intelligence.

[anneasquith]

Oh. Who is the unintelligent aber today ?

[emmie]

perhaps reading through the thread would give you a clue anne...

[gulliver1]

09.12 Emmie, says we are going to give India a further,
£46m in 2019/20, What year do you live in now then Emmie?.

[Apc2604]

Pretty obvious Anne. It won't surprise you!

[emmie]

2021 of course, there weren't any figures for this year.

[emmie]

if you ever google gulliver, which i very much doubt, there doesn't appear to show what we are still giving by way of aid to India, and seeing as how already pointed out, they are fast becoming one of the richest countries in the world. Of course that money doesn't trickle down seemingly to outlying areas of the country, i already said that the poor are likely majority of the country.

[emmie]

https://www.daytodaygk.com/top-10-richest-countries-world-wealthiest-countries-list-india-7th/