'We're sponsoring their Moon launch!': Fury as Britain pledges nearly £100mn in Foreign Aid to India

[Crixus]

That will be fun when our GDP surpasses Brits ( white thieves)

Dear UK.............Go fk yourself!

 

[Daghalodi]

Dear UK.............Go fk yourself!

Wtf are you talking about?? Your ancestors fought british raj for freedom yet you guys are still playing common wealth games and now its go fk yourself

 

[Jackdaws]

No Indian State Govt or Federal Govt or any state run institution accepts "aid". They just jealous of the space program. The closest a Briton is going to get to the moon is to hoist the tallest ladder in Britain on The Big Ben.

 

[Beskar]

That will be fun when our GDP surpasses Brits ( white thieves)

1billion+ still competing against 53 million.

 

[Turingsage]

The open warfare for the leadership of the conservative party has begun. With Barnier openly saying May's Brexit proposals are unacceptable to the EU, May's days are numbered and the right in the conservative party are jostling for the inevitable collapse of May's govt. Johnson fired the first shot by saying May's proposals are didly squat and waving the white flag, Davis is following by trying to garner the hard right in the party as he pitches in for the top job by appealing to the the right of the conservative party.
Davis knows full well that the £100 mill in chicken shit to a country that has an economy nearly as big as Britains and has a growth rate of 8.2% but he has to find issues where he can rile up the atavistic dunderheads on the right for him to have any chance against Boris.

 

[Jackdaws]

1billion+ still competing against 53 million.

Except for a 200 year head start, you are right.

 

[Corona]

1billion+ still competing against 53 million.

If it was about numbers, ants would rule the planet.

 

[Crixus]

Now we send extra £105 million foreign aid to Pakistan: Country is biggest recipient of handouts despite having its own space programme

• The Asian country is now the biggest recipient of UK handouts, figures show
• Probe found that £300million of British taxpayers’ money is being handed out
• The aid comes despite Pakistan spending £19 million on its space programme

By JOHN STEVENS FOR THE DAILY MAIL

PUBLISHED: 19:27 EDT, 3 January 2017 | UPDATED: 14:45 EDT, 4 January 2017

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Britain is to increase foreign aid to Pakistan by more than £100million even though it has a space programme and nuclear weapons.

The Asian country is now the biggest recipient of UK handouts despite preparing to splash out billions on arms including a new fleet of submarines.

It comes after the Mail yesterday revealed how £300million of British taxpayers’ money is being handed out to Pakistanis on pre-loaded cash cards as part of a scheme dogged by claims of corruption.

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Aid: Pakistan will get £100million more from Britain even though it has a space programme (Pictured, people queuing for cash in Peshawar)

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Yet Islamabad has unveiled a massive military spending plan, pumping £654million into the defence budget this year – an 11 per cent boost to £6.7billion.

The figures do not include money spent on its atomic weapons programme. The country is one of a small number of nuclear powers, and has between 110 and 130 warheads.

Pakistan spends around 3.6 per cent of its national income on defence, compared to Britain, which only just fulfils its Nato commitment of at least two per cent.

Last year Pakistan announced it would buy eight new submarines at a cost of around £4billion, with the country expected to lavish more than £10billion on new weapons by 2024.

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Standing in line: These Pakistani families wait at a cashpoint used to withdraw money on cards loaded with funds from British taxpayers

Its space programme has successfully launched a satellite and has an annual budget of around £19.5million.

Backbenchers have been calling on Theresa May to ditch the Government’s commitment to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on overseas aid when there is a crisis in care for the elderly in Britain.

Tory MP Peter Bone said last night: ‘These sums of money are eye-watering, especially when they are going to a country that spends a lot on its armed forces and has a space programme.

‘People will ask why their hard-earned money is going in taxes to support something like this when at home they see the problems with social care. It is just plain wrong.’

Ukip’s spokesman on international development, Lisa Duffy, said: ‘Our own UK taxpayers are facing more and more cuts on a daily basis whilst we are providing benefits to the citizens of Pakistan.’

The Mail revealed how £1billion had been doled out in cash in the past five years in an income-boosting scheme funded by UK taxpayers. But an investigation found Pakistani families withdrawing money with cashpoint cards they obtained by paying kickbacks to officials.

The Prime Minister’s spokesman last night said the system helped focus aid on ‘those who need it, when they need it’. The aide said the policy was ‘an investment in our security’ and claimed there were ‘robust’ policies in place to protect against fraud and corruption.

A Dfid spokesman added: ‘Our investment in Pakistan is making the world a safer place by tackling poverty, improving governance and disrupting serious crime, which left unchallenged breeds violent extremism and drives mass migration.’

HOW WE'RE THE MOST GENEROUS
The UK is the only member of the G7 group of leading nations even close to hitting the target of spending 0.7 per cent of national income overseas.

Since 2004 the amount Britain hands to foreign governments and other aid bodies has rocketed by 144 per cent, according to the G7.

The annual aid bill is between £12billion and £13billion, more than £360 for every income tax payer. On some forecasts, that figure will increase to around £16billion by the next election, and £30billion by 2030.

Germany, France, Italy, the US, Japan and Canada each spend just 0.4 per cent or less. Over the past decade, spending on aid by Japan is up by just 4 per cent and France by 25 per cent.

One dollar in every five spent by the G7 on aid now comes from British taxpayers – despite huge public concern over corruption and waste.

The EU is failing in its own commitment to hit the 0.7 per cent aid target. Its various institutions managed to spend only 0.43 per cent in 2014.

Pakistan, which has longstanding corruption problems, saw a 40.6 per cent increase in UK aid last year, receiving £374million.

This is despite the fact that less than 1 per cent of the population in Pakistan pays any income tax.

Pakistan has a space programme and is one of a very limited number of nuclear powers, possessing between 110 and 130 warheads.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-handouts-despite-having-space-programme.html

@Corona @Jackdaws
Now if you have self respect then get out of common wealth and say no to aid ... before teaching us

Wtf are you talking about?? Your ancestors fought british raj for freedom yet you guys are still playing common wealth games and now its go fk yourself

Pakistan is biggest receiver of British aid .......
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-handouts-despite-having-space-programme.html

bikhari hindu-satan!

Where 200 million stands in front of these 53 million by the way they are developed on our money ....

1billion+ still competing against 53 million.

 

[kris]

Stepping up its rivalry with China, India has invested heavily in its space programme over the course of the last decade.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...in-pledges-nearly-100m-foreign-aid-India.html

How idiotic. India has no space rivalry with China.

Egoistic fellows

 

[Thorough Pro]

LOL, show us a proof where your government ever refused to accept aid?
Talk is cheap.

Some sections of UK has this agenda of showing India in poor light, Already Govt. of India has made it clear that our country needs no aid.

This is a persistent campaign run by the UK media just to make their citizens feel good and superior to the rest of the world.

India is spending 10 times more in Africa and Afghanistan. We do not need your aid.

 

[Zarvan]

Some sections of UK has this agenda of showing India in poor light, Already Govt. of India has made it clear that our country needs no aid.

This is a persistent campaign run by the UK media just to make their citizens feel good and superior to the rest of the world.

India is spending 10 times more in Africa and Afghanistan. We do not need your aid.

So you are trying to suggest me they are giving you Aid on Gun Point. What you are good at is doing propaganda that you don't take aid but reality is you take aid and lot of it

 

[Shamsher1990]

LOL, show us a proof where your government ever refused to accept aid?
Talk is cheap.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wo...ndia-tells-Britain-We-dont-want-your-aid.html
India’s Finance Minister has said that his country “does not require” British aid, describing it as “peanuts”.

Mr Mukherjee’s remarks, previously unreported outside India, were made during question time in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament.

Pranab Mukherjee and other Indian ministers tried to terminate Britain’s aid to their booming country last year - but relented after the British begged them to keep taking the money, The Sunday Telegraph can reveal.

The disclosure will fuel the rising controversy over Britain’s aid to India.

The country is the world’s top recipient of British bilateral aid, even though its economy has been growing at up to 10 per cent a year and is projected to become bigger than Britain’s within a decade.

Last week India rejected the British-built Typhoon jet as preferred candidate for a £6.3 billion warplane deal, despite the Development Secretary, Andrew Mitchell, saying that Britain’s aid to Delhi was partly “about seeking to sell Typhoon.”

Mr Mukherjee’s remarks, previously unreported outside India, were made during question time in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of parliament.

According to a leaked memo, the foreign minister, Nirumpama Rao, proposed “not to avail [of] any further DFID [British] assistance with effect from 1st April 2011,” because of the “negative publicity of Indian poverty promoted by DFID”.

But officials at DFID, Britain’s Department for International Development, told the Indians that cancelling the programme would cause “grave political embarrassment” to Britain, according to sources in Delhi.

DFID has sent more than £1 billion of UK taxpayers’ money to India in the last five years and is planning to spend a further £600 million on Indian aid by 2015.

“They said that British ministers had spent political capital justifying the aid to their electorate,” one source told The Sunday Telegraph.

“They said it would be highly embarrassing if the Centre [the government of India] then pulled the plug.”


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Talk is indeed cheap.

 

[maximuswarrior]

But, but India doesn't receive any aid...

 

[Shamsher1990]

But, but India doesn't receive any aid...

Actually true. This aid is received by NGOs.

 

[Mamluk]

Lol basically they are using Western aid money for their "cheap" Moon and "cheap" Mars missions.

Maybe better spent building some more toilet? No progress on that front.