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PostPosted: Mon Apr 06, 2020 11:31 pm 
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Foreign aid should it not be used here now we gave 14Billion out in 2019

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 Post subject: Re: Foreign aid
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I think the level of foreign aid is set in the statutes as a percentage of GDP.

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 Post subject: Re: Foreign aid
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grandad wrote:
I think the level of foreign aid is set in the statutes as a percentage of GDP.

And :shock: :shock: #-o #-o

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 Post subject: Re: Foreign aid
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so It will be lower as GDP will have fallen sharply

BUT there are a lot of countries out there without the resources and ability to cope so cutting foreign aid now would be a humanitarian disaster

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 Post subject: Re: Foreign aid
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edders23 wrote:
so It will be lower as GDP will have fallen sharply

BUT there are a lot of countries out there without the resources and ability to cope so cutting foreign aid now would be a humanitarian disaster



charity begins at home

OAP's get subsistence level incomes and derisory rises, ex-service men/women live on the streets while we all know some are creaming the benefits system


lets look after our own first

after the virus there will be millions out of work, and we are still paying billions into the EU who are giving no member states any help... where is the money going?

RUSSIA has sent PPE to Italy.........

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 Post subject: Re: Foreign aid
PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 3:31 pm 
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MR T wrote:
Foreign aid should it not be used here now we gave 14Billion out in 2019

Understand, but disagree.

Many moons ago, and over a 15/20 year period, Mrs Sussex working with the gov and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, worked in about 20/30 African countries teaching best practice in some very very poor areas, to help them reduce the horrible levels of maternity deaths.

This was funded out of our tax payers money, but I suspect over the last 20/30 years that has saved many 100s of 1000s of babies and their mothers lives.

Best money this country will ever spend.

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 Post subject: Re: Foreign aid
PostPosted: Tue Apr 07, 2020 6:17 pm 
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Sussex wrote:
MR T wrote:
Foreign aid should it not be used here now we gave 14Billion out in 2019

Understand, but disagree.

Many moons ago, and over a 15/20 year period, Mrs Sussex working with the gov and the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, worked in about 20/30 African countries teaching best practice in some very very poor areas, to help them reduce the horrible levels of maternity deaths.

This was funded out of our tax payers money, but I suspect over the last 20/30 years that has saved many 100s of 1000s of babies and their mothers lives.

Best money this country will ever spend.
So Fu*k us
Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, are working on the C Virus now so way not pay for it out of the foreign aid

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 Post subject: Re: Foreign aid
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So Fu*k us

Nope.

You are under the impression this is an either/or matter.

Quite simply we do both.

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So Fu*k us

Nope.

You are under the impression this is an either/or matter.

Quite simply we do both.

when we are out of this

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 Post subject: Re: Foreign aid
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Im with MR T scrap foreign aid, most of it don’t go to good causes


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 Post subject: Re: Foreign aid
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Quite simply, it is in the statute so wont be stopped. There is a worldwide agreement that various countries, including ours contribute something like 0.7% of GDP towards foreign aid and I don't think that this will be changing.

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 Post subject: Re: Foreign aid
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grandad wrote:
Quite simply, it is in the statute so wont be stopped. There is a worldwide agreement that various countries, including ours contribute something like 0.7% of GDP towards foreign aid and I don't think that this will be changing.


this might be the game changer

we also had massive collections for Australia when they had bush fires, i didnt hear of any for the flooded English towns and villages

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 Post subject: Re: Foreign aid
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Dominic Raab slashes foreign aid to China after £71m taxpayers' cash paid in one yearThe Foreign Secretary has ordered £2.9 billion to be wiped from the aid budget this year in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, with a source stressing the “axe would fall” on China. =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> =D> \:D/ \:D/ \:D/ \:D/ \:D/ \:D/

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 Post subject: Re: Foreign aid
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grandad wrote:
I think the level of foreign aid is set in the statutes as a percentage of GDP.


Who's statutes?


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 Post subject: Re: Foreign aid
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wannabeeahack wrote:
grandad wrote:
Quite simply, it is in the statute so wont be stopped. There is a worldwide agreement that various countries, including ours contribute something like 0.7% of GDP towards foreign aid and I don't think that this will be changing.


this might be the game changer

we also had massive collections for Australia when they had bush fires, i didnt hear of any for the flooded English towns and villages


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