Begging India to keep taking aid!

Begging India to keep taking aid!

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Kermit power

Original Poster:

29,622 posts

228 months

Saturday 4th February 2012
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WTF?????????

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/ind...

Where on earth do you start with this one?


nelly1

5,649 posts

246 months

Saturday 4th February 2012
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Where to start?

Article said:
India’s Finance Minister has said that his country “does not require” British aid, describing it as “peanuts”.
How about "OK then!"?

Brother D

4,164 posts

191 months

Saturday 4th February 2012
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Un-fking believable. But actually in this socialist country, completely believable.

hornetrider

63,161 posts

220 months

Saturday 4th February 2012
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Unbelievable indeed. If they don't want it, fair play to them, lets keep it. No doubt though there's a whole fking bunch of govt non-jobs employed to administer it.

Blib

45,974 posts

212 months

Saturday 4th February 2012
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Article said:
DFID declined to comment on why it had asked the Indian government to continue with a programme it wanted to end.
Well, that's all right then.

rolleyes

anonymous-user

69 months

Sunday 5th February 2012
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Blib said:
Article said:
DFID declined to comment on why it had asked the Indian government to continue with a programme it wanted to end.
Well, that's all right then.

rolleyes
May have something to do with this:

Article said:
In India, meanwhile, government audit reports found £70 million had disappeared from one DFID-funded project alone.

Hundreds of thousands of pounds was spent on delivering more than 7,000 televisions to schools — most of which did not have electricity. Few of the televisions ever arrived. A further £44,000 of British aid was allegedly siphoned off by one project official to finance a movie directed by her son.
The only way to discover the truth is to find out where it's all disappearing to. Not that it will happen.

Ayahuasca

27,452 posts

294 months

Sunday 5th February 2012
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This is just unbelievable. WT and indeed F?

davepoth

29,395 posts

214 months

Sunday 5th February 2012
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Obviously the French managed to get their £19m of bribes into the correct hands. Quality over quantity gents, that's the ticket.

Kermit power

Original Poster:

29,622 posts

228 months

Sunday 5th February 2012
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davepoth said:
Obviously the French managed to get their £19m of bribes into the correct hands. Quality over quantity gents, that's the ticket.
Well quite!

It's not the state-sponsored bribery that annoys me, or even the hypocrisy of Western governments introducing anti-corruption laws so that only they can do it.

It's the staggeringly poor ROI which really gets to me!

SilverLinings

122 posts

208 months

Sunday 5th February 2012
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Not sure bribes matter. I expect some Indian bigwigs want to be cut loose from British dependency. Lots of good and bad blood from the days of empire I expect.

Carfiend

3,186 posts

224 months

Sunday 5th February 2012
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Politics truly is a game by scum for scum isn't it.

Jasandjules

71,020 posts

244 months

Sunday 5th February 2012
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Who'd have thought it........

Cyder

7,161 posts

235 months

Sunday 5th February 2012
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FFS, this country is in the st financially and yet when an easy way to cut some expenditure is presented on a plate the dheads in charge won't take it with open arms.

We're fked I tell thee. frown

Hoofy

78,504 posts

297 months

Sunday 5th February 2012
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YOU'RE ALL WRONG. WE NEED TO GIVE INDIA AID SO THAT THEY GIVE US THEIR BUSINESS!!!!111








hehe

If anything, all this off-shoring has meant that we give India our business as well as aid. WTF. India need to start giving us aid. We're in the middle of a snow crisis.

hehe

chris watton

22,529 posts

275 months

Sunday 5th February 2012
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ianbb in a DT post said:
Well done, India.

The purpose of "aid" is not to help people, it is part of the strategy of keeping the well-oiled "Third Sector" machine running; the charidees, the agencies, the NGOs. The last thing they want is an independent, prosperous "third" world joining the first world. They want dependent brown people dragged into the progressiviest, greenist, maelstrom of the Progressive Left who dominate the West at the moment.

The purpose of "Aid" is not aid at all, it is hegemony. It's time it was stopped entirely.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/ind...
Well said that person!

MX7

7,902 posts

189 months

Sunday 5th February 2012
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chris watton said:
ianbb in a DT post said:
Well done, India.

The purpose of "aid" is not to help people, it is part of the strategy of keeping the well-oiled "Third Sector" machine running; the charidees, the agencies, the NGOs. The last thing they want is an independent, prosperous "third" world joining the first world. They want dependent brown people dragged into the progressiviest, greenist, maelstrom of the Progressive Left who dominate the West at the moment.

The purpose of "Aid" is not aid at all, it is hegemony. It's time it was stopped entirely.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/ind...
Well said that person!
Would it not be easier to find 'brown people' of a slightly different shade to serve our needs, than to try and hold our influence over a billion people with brown envelopes?

It sounds like drivel to me.

Turbo5

594 posts

226 months

Sunday 5th February 2012
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Thats it then, I am boycotting curry and will replay repeats of the Top Gear Christmas special in India !

0a

24,004 posts

209 months

Sunday 5th February 2012
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This is pretty annoying. Not only are we taken for fools about this 'aid' as it turns out it was a bribe, but we're really crap at bribing as well.

stitched

3,813 posts

188 months

Sunday 5th February 2012
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So a country in receipt of aid from the UK tell our dear politicians that they really do not need it any more, however the aid is still given as it would be 'politically embarrasing' to stop it when it had been justified to us by politicians.
Really think some tt who refused to own up to getting it wrong owes us £1.2 billion.
Any of you fine gents know who made the decision to send this aid after it was refused?

vxr8mate

1,682 posts

204 months

Monday 6th February 2012
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‘Aid’ to India can surely only is an economic bribe. If a country decides to start a space program while its citizens are starving in slums then our contribution will almost certainly never make it to those who need it most.
Wasn’t Cameron over there last year trying to drum up trade? He didn’t exactly make an impression did he.