The Indian government has today announced plans to launch a mission to Mars next year. The $82 million project, funded in part by the British taxpayers’ money meant for starving children, will see an unmanned spacecraft set off for the Red Planet in November 2013.
The least they could do is plant a Union Jack…
Cameron is Having a Shocker | Iain Martin
UKIP Still Back Flat Tax | London Loves Business
Dave Will Probably Win in 2015 | Dan Hodges
EU’s Tax Harmonisation Agenda | Dan Hannan
Tories Have Always Sneered at Party Faithful | Simon Heffer
French Youth Fleeing Socialism | Reason
Councils Should Not Blow Cash Subsidising Arts | Harry Phibbs
Old Holborn on Twitter Exile | Backbencher
Attorney General Warns Press Over Rebekah & Andy | Media Guido
UKIP Pros and Cons | Allister Heath
“The Double Income No Kids Existence” | Alex Deane
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Ai Weiwei in China fighting the taxman…
“Under totalitarian rule, no one is protected by law. We will all be the same helpless victims. When a country insists on its lies, it’s time for an artist to bring forth change.”
Google-eyed-Dave
Give us our free turnips!
Lest we forget, they launched their own nuclear powered, nuclear armed sub just this week!! Drinks all round!!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9464590/India-to-launch-its-first-home-built-nuclear-submarine.html
Just to reassure you, if it is maintained in a similar maner to their nuclear power stations, any danger from it would be of a general nature, with an ‘own goal’ the most probable result.
No aid for Cadbury’s?
When they launched it, how many crew were there? And how many clinging to the outside?
Ha. For you, that’s quite witty.
India don’t even want the fucking money!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9061844/India-tells-Britain-We-dont-want-your-aid.html
Guido, old chap, isn’t CAFOD the Roman Catholic version of Oxfam?
Are you thinking of CATFOOD ?
Catfood is for cats, Cafod is the Roman Catholic aid agency
.
india is about status.
.
“The $82 million project, funded in part by the British taxpayers’ money meant for starving children”
.
is there a link which shows misuse of UK funds.
thanks
I have been told that the starving children will be able to settle on Mars and I see no reason to doubt this.
It’s the right thing to do
Will the last person out of the UK please turn out the lights?
Who keeps putting moeny in the meter to keep the bloody things on? Oh stupid me, it’s us taxpayers isn’t it!
This has absolutely got to stop. I could write a list As long as from here to Mars of better things to spend the money on.
no, no – we must pay more taxes for this sort of thing
I am Spartacus.
No, I am Spartacus.
Who is Spartacus?
I’m farting a chariot of fire
Oh, dear. No lighting-up in the little girl’s room for an hour or so, Ladies.
put put put, may I be thanking please you lovely jubbly peoples, for your kind *shakes head sideways repeatedly* donation of 1.7% of your famous GDP to our good causes.
Asda price !
Dear Mr Patel
Thank you for your warm words it is much appreciated. Just one correction however.
I don’t give you all the foreign aid budget just a lot of it. There are other very valuable things that we have as a country to do and not just in India. For example this is a vitally important thing for us to be doing – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19191735
Your as always
The Twat
Well Africa sends A.I.D.S. to the U.K.
does anybody remember the dieting product “Aids for slimmers” I wonder what happened to that ?
And India supplies most of our tuberculosis.
If they’d put all our fucking MP’s into it, I’d support funding the whole damn project.
I am already filming Slumdog Billionaire
Perhaps you could privately donate a flag to the indian government. One of those that are on a cocktail-stick.
But hold on. If you are Guido I, wouldn’t you want to give them an irish flag?
Haven’t we given enough to Eire over £10,000 so far to help them out of their mess
Should be £10Billion silly me
Probably done to create votes among the Indian diaspora in the UK.
I have 5 of these every morning. Reet champion!
http://howigotrich.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/10-pound-breakfast-challenge1.jpg
any news on the Irish space program ?
They’re trying to find dark matter, but can’t see past the Clonakilty black pudding yet. Once that is achieved, there’s the Guinness to deal with.
Mind that Clonakilty black pudding is lovely. Far better than the Bury shite
They are still looking for a very large milk bottle to fit the rocket in.
The last I heard, they’d reached a depth of 830 feet.
it was going OK but then the dish ran away with the spoon
No! It’s still between their ears.
Since the name “Mars Rover” has already been used, will they call it the “Mars Tata”?
Had one of those out on rent recently. Not a bad car apart from it’s strange habit of veering sharply every time it passed an industrial estate. Got it sussed eventually. Stuffed a couple of cartons of dog food & a case of washing up liquid in the back at the cash & carry & it purred along happily afterwards. Bloody junk hanging from the mirror was a pain though.
Pleep pleep….pleep pleep “Curiosity base?” pleep pleep “The chicken Madras, pillau rice & poppadoms you ordered.” pleep pleep……pleep pleep
It may very well not be “unmanned” as rumours reaching me suggest that David Cameron & George Osborne will be inside the spacecraft.
as somebody else said,” shouldn’t we be funding our own fucking space program” ?
The “public sector” is our waste of space program
We used to have one, heard of Blue Streak?
“as somebody else said,” shouldn’t we be funding our own fucking space program” ?”
Jeez, don’t start them on that. You seen the bill for the Olympics?
Dave — get your arse back from holiday and try and explain this fiasco on prime time telly — you stupid wxxker
If we didnlt give aid to countries who have nuclear weapons and/or space programmes could we afford to feed some starving people somehwere?
’…money meant for starving children,’
Really Guido, I expect better. This is the timeless hypothecation myth. Whatever we ’mean’ in making our donation, our £££ go to the Indian exchequer which allocates total receipts as it sees fit: starving children, MP’s pensions, space exploration… And this problem can’t be solved by paying our £££ directly to the said starving children since the exchequer would be free to divert the same amount to wherever it chooses.
I think what people are thinking is that if they have got money to spend on a rocketship then they don’t need our money especially when we are skint.
Why not send the money to all curry houses and bring the prices down?
The money sent to India goes to British NGOs operating in the country; none of it will have been spent on the space programme.