India

[DimPrawn]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4918582.stm

Interesting the contrasts of the middle classes, now flush with money and aspirations to the slums (yes real poverty Mr Brown, not just lack of plasma TV's).

How the poor are trying to pull themsleves out of the slums and how growth is at 10%.

No mention of "fairness", or how greedy the middle classes are and how punitive taxes should be levied against them etc.

Just everyone doing what they can to improve their own lives.

How refreshing.

 

[eternalnomad]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4918582.stm

Interesting the contrasts of the middle classes, now flush with money and aspirations to the slums (yes real poverty Mr Brown, not just lack of plasma TV's).

How the poor are trying to pull themsleves out of the slums and how growth is at 10%.

No mention of "fairness", or how greedy the middle classes are and how punitive taxes should be levied against them etc.

Just everyone doing what they can to improve their own lives.

How refreshing.

The indian middle classes dont need to worry about helping their own poor because the UK taxpayer already helps out quite nicely.

UK aid to India currently stands at around £250 million pa.

Its all about fairness

 

[lilelvis2000]

The indian middle classes dont need to worry about helping their own poor because the UK taxpayer already helps out quite nicely.

UK aid to India currently stands at around £250 million pa.

Its all about fairness

That's about £3 per. poor person per year - a great help indeed. My daily bus fare is more than that.

 

[expat]

The indian middle classes dont need to worry about helping their own poor because the UK taxpayer already helps out quite nicely.

UK aid to India currently stands at around £250 million pa.

Its all about fairness

That's still only half the Indian Space Programme budget. Yes, the Indian Space Programme.

 

[threaded]

That's about £3 per. poor person per year - a great help indeed. My daily bus fare is more than that.

You think the poor actually get that money?

Oh dear (tm)

 

[eternalnomad]

That's about £3 per. poor person per year - a great help indeed. My daily bus fare is more than that.

Yes - I agree its pretty pathetic....and about £3 per poor person p.a. more than the Indian middle classes are contributing to their own people.

 

[DimPrawn]

Filthy disgusting middle classes. Where's Blair and Brown when you need them.

 

[thunderlizard]

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/47212

 

[vetran]

New phrase!

New phrase!

"Much of it is of course part of the informal economy of India, the parallel economy as we like to call it.

Expect this new description to be touted far and wide. No more Black, grey or informal economy its the parallel economy.

I'd like to see these emerging countries to be encouraged to support the initiatives that we really should be supporting fully.

We are working towards abolishing global poverty and injustice in the UK this means a playstation, Plasma TV in every council home, and a caution for anyone bending the rules by driving without insurance or battering their spouse, abroad it means buying the local dictator a new jet.

Green issues like building loads of gas fired power stations (I wonder which future Peer has a power station construction company?) or concreting the south east, abroad we just consume cheap goods from emerging countries whilst failing to ensure they use enviromentally friendly raw materials.

Employment standards such as importing cheap labour to put ethnic minorites out of work such as in the Airline food market or stealing third world doctors so they can work for free in the NHS .

Improving global stability by dismantling democracy and free speech in the UK abroad by invading any country with oil.

Like we can comment on the morality of foreign powers.