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Four Dead In 12 Hours In Sub-Zero Britain
disgraceful in this day an age, £14 billion foreign aid budget..but nothing for the uk's homeless.
yet a migrant family and there raft of migrant help groups and solicitors, in like flynn...
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That 'huge sum' is a tiny amount of our GDP and would make very little difference if it were spent within the UK. 0.7% of our Gross National Income. It wouldn't make a ripple in our NHS budget.
I'm sure nobody would be jumping for joy if their annual pay increase was 0.7%. We all complain about the interest on our savings being at that level.
That 0.7% hasn't come out of thin air - it is the target set by the United Nations for all developed countries since 1970 and Norway, Sweden, Luxembourg and Denmark all give a much larger per centage of the GNI. In 2015 the 0.7% was enshrined in to law in the UK.
We didn't hit the 0.7% target until 2013.
The UK is very clever though. We benefit from the foreign aid donations by doing deals - we give you aid if you give us orders, that sort of thing. We are not the world's second largest arms exporter by accident, as an example.
I'm sure nobody would be jumping for joy if their annual pay increase was 0.7%. We all complain about the interest on our savings being at that level.
That 0.7% hasn't come out of thin air - it is the target set by the United Nations for all developed countries since 1970 and Norway, Sweden, Luxembourg and Denmark all give a much larger per centage of the GNI. In 2015 the 0.7% was enshrined in to law in the UK.
We didn't hit the 0.7% target until 2013.
The UK is very clever though. We benefit from the foreign aid donations by doing deals - we give you aid if you give us orders, that sort of thing. We are not the world's second largest arms exporter by accident, as an example.
Emmie - "i wish someone would give me 14 billion, I would find the worthy causes that urgently need to be dealt with in UK, first and foremost. Then we can think of foreign aid."
This answer implies that the UK does not put money towards UK causes that urgently need to be dealt with.
The fact of the matter is, it does. If it needed more, I'm sure the government would amend budgets accordingly.
This answer implies that the UK does not put money towards UK causes that urgently need to be dealt with.
The fact of the matter is, it does. If it needed more, I'm sure the government would amend budgets accordingly.
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