Victory: Mitchell Promises Aid to India Will Be Stopped
Whilst the austerity squeeze is being put on at home, Guido thought it a little odd that the UK taxpayer was expected to borrow hundreds of milllions to send to India whilst they boost the Indian space program and equip their aircraft carriers, which we can’t afford to do. Fiscal insanity.
Last Thursday Guido and a very grateful Indian spaceman went to an aid conference to lobby Mitchell on this very subject. Left-wing agitators were outraged that we even raised the issue, trying to imply it was racist to question foreign aid to a growing economic superpower. In what must be the cheapest and shortest successful single-issue lobbying campaign in history, International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has announced that aid to India will be stopped. A good day for the British taxpayer, a bad day for the Indian Space Programme..
UPDATE: Guido tried to interview the Indian Spaceman just now, but he was too emotional, holding his head in his hands, weeping. He was just too choked up to talk…
But will he keep his word or will be done on the quiet when we aint looking?
None the less, well done Guido and company.
The top five nations fuelling the rise in Britain’s immigration are all from Eastern Europe, it emerged today.
Slovakia, with a population of just five million, leads the boom in foreigners in the UK, with almost one per cent of its entire populations living here.
New figures reveal 49,000 Slovakians came to live here in 2010, a massive 513 per cent increase on the 8,000 who arrived in 2004.
The former Communist bloc country has a 12.1 per cent unemployment rate – almost double that of Britain – and its workers earn around £7,000 a year.
And under EU regulations, migrants are entitled to state handouts including jobseeker’s allowances and housing benefit.
Many of Slovakia’s neighbours like Latvia, Poland, Bulgaria and Romania have joined the rush to live here now they are in the EU.
Poland has 521,000 of its citizens in Britain – 448 per cent up on the 95,000 who arrived here in 2004.
The fact is that the cow (Britain) is only being fed by us British taxpayers yet we aren’t the ones milking it – it’s the rest of the world that are being allowed to milk it at will and never feed it.
Result – cow dies. It’s in bad health now.
FFS Dave stop pandering to anyone but the British and get a grip.
EU decides where 20 % of the UK aid is spent!!! I thought Cameron was stopping the devolution of our sovereignty? He also increased our EU contribution to £17 billion before rebate. Before the election he said 80% cuts 20 % tax increases- what is the figure to date?? Come on Guido do the sums. I’ve seen lots of tax rises and no cuts to pay for the wasteful spending of the Lie Con coalition.
It was announced at the weekend that the cap of £26,000 per family on welfare was being scrapped, another U turn for the Tories. Apparently large families on welfare could not cope with this.
Yes, they’re coming here, and our jobs are going there, Cadburys for one, Twynings as well i believe, and quite a few others, go figure. Vote UKIP.
Wet Dave supported by socialist McClegg wants more immigration.
242,000 NET immigration last year, in addition to the 241,000 migrant students- most of whom do not pay tuition fees and none of whom pay maintenance as they get loans and Fook off, in addition to the 160,000 asylum seekers given amnesty- huger legal aid cost all of whom are housed for at least 6 mths and are forbidden to work in that period.
And Cameron/Mitchell want to give more in their multi billion pound give away scheme to countries like India and Pakistan who prefer war machines, nuclear deterrent and space programmes than feed their people. Uganda’s president spent his aid on a new £30 million pound Lear jet FFS, the hungry did not get a look in.
Give aid in kind so that British firms and people can benefit while doing a good turn, it cuts out the corrupt fiddlers in between. We could use our military to build new roads, water ways etc and use them for unnecessary Middle East wars when appropriate. Keeps British people in paid work.
You missed off the WHS (World Health Service) – when was the last time a heavily pregnant woman from who knows where was told to fuck off from whence she came.
Charity / housing / healthcare etc begins at home.
None of this foreign aid should be given out. I want all of my taxes to pay for British public services. Fullstop nothing more. No giveaways to foreigners. If there is spare cash, tax us less. If CaMoron or this twit Mitchel wants to give their own money. Fine. Whilst we’re at it can we have our referendum on In/Out of the EU and we could save another £14 billion and secure our own borders. Trade deficit £42 billion last year, whats the benefit? Deafening silence………
Out of all the countries that we help with aid, Africa has to be the most corrupt. Hardly any money gets to the allocated targets.
However, Iraq and Afghanistan are the recipients of the largest handouts.
Here is how one handout is spent:
To repair bombed building of Hospital in Afghanistan – £4 million allocated.
The UN immediately takes £1 million in fees for administration.
A contractor in Italy is secured to do the work
He immediately pockets £1 million profit
He subcontracts a building company in Italy to go and do the job
The Italian company immediately helps itself to £1.6 million profit
and seeks out local Afghani workers to do the job in keeping with ‘helping’
the local businesses
ACTUAL COST OF REPAIRING HOSPITAL £400,000.
If you are looking to point at corruption start with Charities – the likes of Oxfam – and the amounts they pay “staff”.
These organisation are no more than self-serving quasi-political refuges for aspiring MP/MEP’s. A gravy-train creche – no more, no less.
Totally agree. I’m not giving to Oxfam if the employees there earn double what I do for an easier job. Plus they have an army of do-gooder interns to do the work for them, bankrolled by their mummys and daddys.
If they want to help the african people why not put these jobs in africa rather than a swanky office in central London. I’m sure an african wouldn’t need £47 k to organise coffee mornings.
How about Shelter deciding that anybody over the age of 11 who has to share a bedroom with a sibling is ‘homeless’. Somebody should tell them that there are no homeless in Britain, they are a fake charity.
Bollocks. They do not allow 100% subcontracting.
Most of the cost of the hospital would be in imported plant, equipment and materials. Local labour will be cheap and may well only be $400,000 but that buys you a lot of manhours.
The only positive side to the UK giving money to Africa, is that it usually ends up back here, in the hands of arms manufacturers, armoured vehicle specialists and the shopkeepers, hoteliers and tarts of Knightsbridge.
Usually in Swiss bank.
Not to mention in fees for dictator’s daughters and sons to attend our fine private schools and university.
If you are looking to point at corruption start with the United Nations Organization.
But have we asked the Indians for cash handouts? Surely it’s their turn to contribute.
Simple solution to immigrants welfare claims – yes we will pay welfare, but only to the levels you could get from wherever you came from!
No date’s been given for the ending of the profligacy. No reduction has been made in the budget. It’s just fluff to make everyone breathe a sigh of relief, to make us think Dave’s seen sense. But the aid will continue. He’ll almost certainly increase it when he thinks we’re not looking.
Liebour do profligacy so incoming Conservatives have to dish out parsimony.
Cameron personally increased the DfID budget and promised to spray our money all around the world at record levels. Indeed he was ‘extremely proud’ about it too, at the time.
But then, the man is a prize huhne and certainly no Tory.
Whoever gave the thumbs down is Steve Hilton and I claim my free bicycle trouser clips.
Exactly, why should we feel any happier just because it goes to Bangladesh instead of India.
Here’s an idea, let’s raise the foreign aid budget to 10%.
10% of any budget surplus.
For now that means nothing.
Unfortunately that is what I suspect will happen or iDave will preform one of his now regular U-turns.
Thanks Guido for correcting my mis typed word
No need to worry Billy, Wavey Davey never keeps his promises.
It’s already happening Billy, over half a billion going into a vaccination program with Bill Gates.
Whilst I am not against this, I hope to God Bill Gates is overseeing this contribution and not our fucking government!
On second thoughts, I wonder if it would be a better idea if our government did run the program, and Bill Gates ran our country?
But then the same thing will happen as it did with Microsoft. He will build the UK PLC up to a phenomenal success, leave, and the politicians will fuck up – as have the present directors in Microsoft.
You must be an Apple fanboi or a Penguin user.
Given that over-population is a huge problem in the third world. not really logical to put resources into vaccinating children. It would take a very brave politician to point this out, mind you.
Depends what they are vaccinating them with…
Racist!!!
Cameron is a fuckin gutless arse hole…….The sad thing is i fuckin voted for him…………
The aid to India will stopped.
One day.
That is a cast iron guarantee.
So will his tenure in office.
India still has plenty of poor people. It also has plenty of food. What India needs is not more money from us but for Indians to care about other Indians a bit more.
untouchables begging for food outside the national space centre – it’s a disgrace, but it’s not our problem. it’s the caste system that’s fucked it.
Surely you don’t mean that the Indian superrich shouldn’t build themselves billion pound houses eg the one in Bombay opened in October 2010 by Mukesh Ambani !?
I am shocked you could even suppose such a thing. Racist!!!
And Dave would be too!
Great – while we’re on a roll, can we get out of the EU too? We could be quids in at this rate.
Great result, our taxes should be spent at home!
If government can give one, two or ten percent of tax income away, then by definition, we are being taxed too much.
So who’s going to provide the Curry House module for the International Space Station now?
The EU, using a £1bn “curry module” fund, whilst coincidentally increasing Britain’s EU membership fee by £1bn.
Sadly that will probably be the case. With Mandelslime or Bliar creaming off 5% consultancy fee.
Ocado – they’ have no purpose here on Earth.
Has anyone ever seen an Ocado van actually delivering anything? Sure, they drive around all over the place, but have you ever seen one stopped, offloading goods, anywhere, ever?
Yes. Twice a week here, peasants.
They deliver to Sam Cam too.
Modded? Dave said he shops at Ocado in the House!
In a house cooking curry the smell hangs around for 3/4 days, in the international ss at least a fortnight, what thought.
No it doesn’t if you open the windows and put the fan on while you are cooking.
… which you have to admit is a great idea for a space station!
Giving £800m for vaccinations today. Might not be going to India but we are still managing to maintain our status as the give away country of the world. Apparently is in our national interest.
It’s the interest that worries me.
and the interest on the interest. Time and time again we hear that the Government is serious about tackling the defecit but then chooses to cherry pick international aid and the NHS. We are just buying time with the NHS and as for the aid, shouldn’t we just commit to spend what we can afford?
You mean like going round and asking for our money back for the last 4 years?
When you look up at the night sky, you’ll see little points of light flying through the Heavens. Indian satellites. Your money.
Doesn’t it make you proud?
Toodle pip.
Remember this would not have been possible without british consumers generosity in their dealings with indian call centres. Accepting our jobs moving overseas so that companies can provide us with inferior service without any show of dissent is an achievement akin to Britain’s victories in world war 1 and 2 added together.
Methinks it’s more to do with the post-PM employment prospects of Dave…
Didn’t know Dodgy Dave was preparing to leave government at the moment B’Liar is snapping all the prime jobbies for out of work ex PMs, Gordy thinks that is why no one is head hunting for him, B’Liar was putting feelers out years before he left.
At least the money is used for an actual programme, rather than at the local car,plane, boat, arms dealers
Yup. Why do I have the funny feeling £0.50p vaccinations are suddenly going to cost £20 each?
Bugger! I was hoping to divert a few bob and help out a few mates, why can’t you shut yer gob!
Why is this vaccination money not being spent on birth control which is what the world needs, and we defo need it here in England, fill in yourself areas most in need……. …….. ….. ……. etc.
It could be a condition for entry to the UK birth control pills and the snip for couples with more than 2 kids
Have YOU had the snip yet?
I hope that the Indian equivalent of NASA paid the BBC full market price for those now-obsolete Cyberman costumes.
Is that the original spaceman or Sunny Hundal?
“Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has announced that aid to India will be stopped.” June 13
Wait til the Lib Dems hear about this!
“Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has announced that aid to India will be doubled” June 14
hurrah!
I love the smell of burnin’ rubber in the morning!
What goes up rarely comes down.
Correct.
Tell me about it- I’ve had an erection for the last 4 years!
Tom! Get off that computer. You’ll get a stiff neck again.
Can we still get money?
no, fuck off
“will be stopped”
As ever with Camerons continuity Blue Labour there is no time line – & no doubt there will be a u-turn on this when Harriet Harmen threatens Cameron with the prosepct of tens of thousands of Union Pilgrims on the street demanding we borrow more money to give it away via the utterly corrupt & contemptable DFID.
* Low Taxes
* Small State & Public Sector
* Out of the EU
* Close DFID
Simple Conservative ideas that will get us out of the myre – thats why I & many others are voting U_K_I_P.
Blue Labour out.
whats happened to neo guido? Have you stopped feeding him? He looks like he has lost a lot of wieght.
Can we have more aid?
Certainly, if you promise to legalise homosexuality and install lots of solar panels on your government buildings. We don’t care how much it costs and you can keep all the change.
“The conference is being chaired by David Cameron, the Prime Minister, and Microsoft founder and philanthropist Bill Gates.”
Cameron you stupid, stupid Hunt – Bill is spending his *OWN* money OK? So when you match him pound for pound use *YOUR*OWN* fucking money not mine!! OK?
Guido – stopping aid to india is all very well, but that only means it will be sent to a different country, it won’t cut the UK taxpayers bill.
Last year un-needy countries lost £400,000,000 in ‘aid’ – it just went to others instead.
In some ways… rather than giving India the dosh … Why didn’t we set up a joint space programme with them as opposed to some european space programme we might have got better value for money
We can’t afford it you dead twat.
I’m a Lada.
As in: unwanted, clapped out, unpopular, untrustworthy, broken down and rusting away in some shitheap?
You might actually be right..
Well done Guido.
Me-thinks the DfID cash give-aways are only made so that politicians in the UK can buy the votes of the UK based relatives of these countries. When courting the votes of an Indian family in (say) Harrow, it pleases them to know that the UK sends tons of cash back to their homeland.
It’s a bribe to the immigrant community to vote for them…..
In a democracy it seems that nearly all actions of politicians are some form of bribe to get some group to vote for them. Common sense and prudence go out the window. No wonder we are skint…..!
Hasn’t worked with us.
— SEND MORE CASH.
You already get more than anyone else thanks to the Barnett Formula. Sod off and build your own economy instead of sponging off my wallet with your useless, non-job diversity co-ordinators and post-modern activity facilitators.
He just says it is going to be “frozen” Where does it say it will be STOPPED completely? I hope it is but wristband wearing Mitchell is obsessed with doling our our money abroad.
Alternative uses for BBC Television Centre.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13746250
New bombing range for RAF.
But will Time Team ever find the bones of the orginal Petra the dog?
Labour HQ. Oh wait a second…
Scotland?
“The site is also home to the Blue Peter garden, which will be relocated to a studio roof at the Salford site.”
Hello children! We’d hoped to do a feature from our Blue Peter garden on the roof, but this being Manchester it’s p!ssing-down, freezing cold and blowing a gale!
Lets see..
Worlds largest recycling centre
Arts centre
Shooting gallery
Hobo hotel
Domino toppling stadium
Olympic hotel for backpackers
Car park for Westfield
Storage for 25 million episodes of eastenders.
Why don’t they just mothball it until the BBC realises Manchester’s a wet and windy shit-hole and they want to move back to London?
How else can they get a brand new state of the art building in London?
Low yield nuclear testing facility.
A Pet(ra) Cemetery?
.
I’ll get me coat..
ProgramME, please.
One small stop for a man.
One giant saving for the robbed blind.
Good Campaign Guido, any chance of starting a EU referendum one?
Or even one to get rid of Chris Huhne?
Sub-Judicey at mo, wait till they drop it “In the public intrest” then the gloves come off!
I’m cast iron Cameron. And I give a cast iron promise to be even more shit than I have been.
I’ll give you a hand with that, I’ll start by making funds available for an even bigger increase in EU spending this year.
So we are paying for pricks to go overseas
It is absolutely essential that Members of Parliament, like me, should visit these third world countries to experience their needs, view their poverty, assess their requirements for foreign aid and shag their women.
Well done. It’s absolutely ludicrous. There’s poverty in America, should we be sending them aid too?
Don’t give them ideas.
BTW the link at the top. House looks like Danny Alexander.
It doesn’t.
Re: Link. Quite right Bill, it looks more like Princess Beatrice.
Really? Most poverty in America is poverty of ambition and lack of self-control… That’s why they’re fat (same as our benefit addict class).
What is it about the left that they furiously defend absolutely EVERY instance of money being taken off the public and the government spending it?
– money being taken off the public and the government pissing it up a wall?
There.
Fixed it for you.
I wonder if when they have got their NEW aircraft carrier, India would give us back HMS Hermes – which they are still using…
Have no politicons got any shame?
Can people that buy the Mirror read?
Only the words with two syllables or less.
No, which is why they regard Ed Balls as a godlike entity.
The Labour rumour-mill has it that when Yvette’s away on business and Balls has to cook his own dinner, he can not only read the instructions on the Pot Noodle carton, but he can do so without moving his lips.
Still reckon he’s hit the DT with a Super Injunction.
Nah, Otherwise it would have been leaked to a blogger
If you can be bothered to check, I trotted out my ‘too far, too fast’ cliche three times there. Have you been indoctrinated yet ??
Oh the irony: “Whatever the Tories and their supporters claim now, whatever the dirty tricks, we cannot let them rewrite history.”
Only socialists can get away with that (and only if they shoot all the witnesses).
This is a great story as it keeps Bilderberg out of the news. Let them worry about Indian spacemen, sluts and ‘fracticide’ while we hike up their energy bills and continue with our NWO agenda.
Oooh, do you mean a CONSPIRACY? Gosh, how fascinating…
Dave and Andrews favourite tune:
“… now is not the time to stop the programme in India but I don’t think we will be there for very much longer.” from the linked article.
Thus spake a politician. And you really believe that means it will be stopped?
Nope, not fooled for a second. Unless Mitchell’s comment, “I don’t think we will be there for very much longer” was referring to the Conservatives being in government.
So will the Danegeld to keep Landrover being made in this country be given in a different way like “development costs to build a new green Range/Landrover ” or will he ind another way to piss taxpayers money over.
Later this afternoon, I will be delivering a powerful, moving speech of shattering importance. No, it’s not my resignation speech.
Yet.
So what!
Pleathe be quiet! I am thinking.
Two deep, too farty.
After the nasty right wing conspiracy we will be taking this speech live across the airwaves and will be leading all news bulletins with it.
Sorry about the tennis, but he ho Mr Miliband’s speech is very important
69 – What a fxxxing pity.
Never mind Joanna Lumley for President…..I propose Guido. He’d do the job for a couple of pints
“Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell has announced that aid to India will be stopped”
So hands up who out there believes it will be stopped.
Like everything these crooks say is truthful.
The spaceman is OK for a bit longer.
Aid to India will be stopped – eventually.
“Mr Mitchell told BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show that he did not think that the UK would continue to fund programmes in India “for very much longer”.
A kinder person than Cameron would target aid on African food supplies BEFORE saving “millions of lives” in Sub Saharan Africa.
Shhh. You’re not actually supposed to read the links you know.
++++++++++ Breaking News+++++++++++++
A new soap oprea has been written and set for filming, the new soap called “Commons street” ( Working title) will be based on the lifes of members of Parliament and there 2nd home street.
You can hear the soundtrack here for the opening and closing titles.
However many politicons are concerend that it will paint them as “Out of touch” and “not living in reality”.
A sokesman has said “we will base it on real life with a few little tweeks”.
OMG – has militwit turned into a tory ?
I am a proggrethive, looking out for the thqueethed middle floating voterth
Is their any difference in a Liebour,Libsh*te,Uconned us politician, every breath they take is a lie, swop them from one political party to another, no change, triplets in the same crime.
if MIliband says he wants labour to be the party of the workers etc does he mean he will get rid of all pilgrims?
In the Promithed Land noone need a Pilgwim be. There will be milk and honey and interetht for all and more. You mutht follow me.
Why did they stop exporting India Rubbers?
I don’t like all them thumbs
That’s because you never get any. Well here’s one
I have NEVER said ” too far too fast “
Both: Oh, we go boom boody-boom boody-boom boody-boom
Boody-boom boody-boom boody-boom-boom-boom,
Her: Goodness gracious,
Him: How audacious!
Her: Goodness gracious,
Him: How flirtatious!
Her: Goodness gracious,
Him: It is me.
Her: It is you?
Him: Ah, I’m sorry, it is us.
Both: Ahhh!
Peter Sellers & Sophia Loren 1960
All together now..
I’m the Urdu Spaceman baby…
‘Left-wing agitators were outraged that we even raised the issue, trying to imply it was racist to question foreign aid to a growing economic superpower.’
Really? When? Sounds like provocative crap from Guido…
Now we’re to stop funding Indian ambitions to explore space(IF it’s true and I’ll believe it when I see it with this lot though !!!) the next on list is stop “Dave”‘s “Vanity giveaway” during his tour of Pakistan to make up for their hurt feelings when he actually told them truth ……of £650 Milliion for Pakistan’s school building when some of our own schools are falling down through lack of investment and the Coalition stopping the schools building programme…………..
OT any thoughts on this.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/3059617/Euro-MPs-to-vote-on-anonymous-blog-ban.html
“Marianne Mikko, an Estonian centre-left MEP”
From USSR to EUSSR.
Why is it that when money is given to people in foreign countries for not working it is entitled “Foreign Aid”, and when money is given to people in THIS country for not working, the recipients are described as “Benefit scroungers.” ?
In both cases the need is for gainful employment allowing the necessities of life to be purchased.
As the Chinese are slowly buying up Africa no doubt they will be very grateful for all those healthy slaves
How long before the moon is covered in pound shops, stalls full of rotten fruit and veg discounted to 1000% more than Waitrose, takeaways and markets heaving with knock off clothing
Thats if the Chinese dont beat them to it
“According to a report in the Daily Mail, Britain has provided 388 million pounds to the Indian education system over the past eight years, but an investigation reportedly has revealed that much of the money has been wasted and that standards of reading, writing and arithmetic have dropped.”
http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2011-05-31/uk/29603996_1_british-aid-uk-free-education
Whenever our government is involved, even in an increasingly prosperous country such as india, standards slip.
How many members of this or past governments have the equivalent of so much as an A-Level in Maths???
Margaret Thatcher must have been good at Maths to have been so qualified in Chemistry, but anyone since then???
If so, time they were promoted!!!
I don’t believe a word “chancer” MItchell says, he’s nothing but a power monger!
I don’t quite understand how you define a campaign as successful based on a statement of aspiration – that we will stop aid to India at some point in the future was probably a given before Guido put pixel to screen. If anything this just goes to show the impermanence of some people’s web-based “campaigning” activity. Having a few posts, an article in a tabloid and then a lot of self-congratulatory chatter does not (always) translate into a lasting policy change.
Whatever “very much longer” means and with the sheer number of those living in poverty in India, us not involving ourselves in development assistance there is probably a lot further off than Guido and anyone else opposed to this particular part of the aid programme thinks.
What’s also been missed out, particularly amidst the sort of shouty journalism and cheap stunts like the “Indian spaceman”, is any genuine debate about why such Indian state expenditure is frivolous – surely investment in space technologies helps spur other related developments as such R&D does in other nations?
The UK’s own Space Agency estimates the sector’s contribution to the UK’s economy as:
“…£7.5bn a year to the UK economy, directly employs 24,900 and supports a further 60,000 jobs across a variety of industries”
With figures like that is it really that outrageous that the Indian’s pursue their own programme whilst we help out with some of the more day-to-day expenses in a country where 42% of the population live below the international poverty line?
That is a boring but probably accurate analysis, but at least the rhetoric has changed.
Britain is in dire debt. The British government can scarcely look after Britain itself. So if there is any international aid circulating, BRITAIN SHOULD NOW BE THE RECIPIENT OF IT.
MY BLOOD PRESSURE HAS NEVER BEEN SO BAD AS IT IS TODAY.
The Conservative Party should choose a new leader. One who will demand the very best possible deal for the UK abroad.
Yet more violation of British interests today.
Yet another treason trial should be held…
What’s the use of blocking one form of treacherous waste abroad, when it is promptly replaced by another one (jabs)???
At this rate, the British economy itself is well on the way to relegation to the global third division…
I was predicting all this bankruptcy, in 2005, when treacherous commietrash were having their Live8 Carnival.
yes, I am
You bunch of facist, Aliensit bastards.
I intend tostart a charity to campaign for better treatment of aliens.
I shall call it The Campaign for Better Treatment for Aliens, or CBTA.
I have not got a charity bank accout yet so please only send cash.
And nothing smaller than £10 notes as anything else will take too long to count.
“What do we want?”
“Better treatment for aliens”
“When do we want it?”
“Sometime in the next 60 million years”
W.W.