Boris keeps promise and eliminates foreign aid

[AtW]

It is not a foreign aid now - just part of normal Foreign Office funding

International development and Foreign Office to merge - BBC News

And losers claimed that was impossible!

[darmstadt]

I wonder how they will correlate aid to Yemen but at the same time selling arms to Saudi to bomb Yemen?

[WTFH]

I wonder how they will correlate aid to Yemen but at the same time selling arms to Saudi to bomb Yemen?

Aid will placate any of their supporters that might still have consciences
As long as the value of the aid is less than the sale value, it's a profit, so that will placate the rest

[AtW]

I wonder how they will correlate aid to Yemen but at the same time selling arms to Saudi to bomb Yemen?

Aid to Yemen (via Saudies) is going to be part of MoD budget - the results are expected to be explosive

HTH

[darmstadt]

Well give him his due, he has kept one of his promises to the Tory faithful by stopping the flow of money to Johnny Foreigner (unless Johnny Foreigner happens to buy British) but on the other hand, he's had to do a u-turn on something more important, school meal vouchers

[minestrone]

Well give him his due, he has kept one of his promises to the Tory faithful by stopping the flow of money to Johnny Foreigner (unless Johnny Foreigner happens to buy British) but on the other hand, he's had to do a u-turn on something more important, school meal vouchers

Yes, he promised to stop the flow of money to Johnny Foreigner. I watched that bit as well.

[malvolio]

Well give him his due, he has kept one of his promises to the Tory faithful by stopping the flow of money to Johnny Foreigner (unless Johnny Foreigner happens to buy British) but on the other hand, he's had to do a u-turn on something more important, school meal vouchers

Important for those affected yes, but trivial in allowing the export of many millions of pounds to countries and regimes that don't need or deserve it. Tying it to foreign policy would seem to be eminently sensible, so it goes where it might actually be of benefit to UK.

[AtW]

Foreign aid was already tied to foreign policy - just with little subtlety to prevent loss of face for countries who took those bribes.

[darmstadt]

This is probably nothing to do with Johnson but to do with Cummings who hates the civil service with a passion. This is only the start. There will be a march through and reshaping of the UK’s institutions, including the BBC. The only things that will stop them are events or incompetence. This has been a project formulated over years. This is not new and none of it’s been hidden. It’s been there on blogs, in comment and leader columns of the Telegraph, in papers from right-wing think tanks.

[Old Greg]

This is probably nothing to do with Johnson but to do with Cummings who hates the civil service with a passion. This is only the start. There will be a march through and reshaping of the UK’s institutions, including the BBC. The only things that will stop them are events or incompetence. This has been a project formulated over years. This is not new and none of it’s been hidden. It’s been there on blogs, in comment and leader columns of the Telegraph, in papers from right-wing think tanks.

They despise the British as the "worst idlers in the world".