Gordon Brown to send £8.5bn to Africa etc

[Gold Dalek]

Did you know that the UK still contributes rather a lot of dosh (tens of millions annually) to India in foreign aid.

India is now established as a major global economy and is in a strong position to feed its own poor. Its about time the new "middle-classes" of India were hit with a "fairness" tax to feed their own poor and downtrodden rather than expecting UK plc to do that job for them.

I'm struggling to find a table of GB Foreign Aid to see who gets what from us... do you have a link? or is it something deliberately well hidden?

[Emperor Dalek]

Indeed they are oh omnipotent bulbous one!

btw are you male or female?

My Dalekanium casing keeps my modesty intact.

[eternalnomad]

I'm struggling to find a table of GB Foreign Aid to see who gets what from us... do you have a link? or is it something deliberately well hidden?

The government have a whole department doing nothing other than "efficiently" giving out UK taxpayers cash.

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/

here is a useful table of aid dished out...

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/sid2005/Table-7w.pdf


in 2004/05 India received £259 million in aid

[Gold Dalek]

The government have a whole department doing nothing other than "efficiently" giving out UK taxpayers cash.

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/

here is a useful table of aid dished out...

http://www.dfid.gov.uk/pubs/files/sid2005/Table-7w.pdf


in 2004/05 India received £259 million in aid

Interesting and thanks... wonder why China gets £36 million a year ?

[Emperor Dalek]

Interesting and thanks... wonder why China gets £36 million a year ?

Manned space programmes don't run on fairy dust you know.

[Gold Dalek]

Manned space programmes don't run on fairy dust you know.

And how would the UK benefit from this protuberant one?

[Emperor Dalek]

You see, Goldie, that's why I'm the Emperor.

[Gold Dalek]

You see, Goldie, that's why I'm the Emperor.

I have much to learn.....

[Fungus]

It also costs money to build the infrastructure in cities required to support call centres, software houses etc.