£1billion in aid to India

[caminito]

What about helping OUR poor pensioners   

Britain is to give more than £1billion in aid to India over the next four years, even though it has almost three times as many billionaires as we do.

Ministers defended handing around £280million a year in taxpayers’ cash to one of the world’s biggest economies.

They insist it will re-energise the relationship with the former colony and claim it still needs international aid.

However, critics pointed out that India is a nuclear power, has its own space programme and is rich enough to donate money to poor African nations each year.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357056/Britains-1bn-aid-India-nation-3-times-billionaires-have.html#ixzz1E1a9aZaj

[Chrisjay]

I read this this morning and I am disgusted at how our money is being spent - if they have this amount of spare money we should all be getting a decent increase in our pensions.

This government supported the demonstrators in Egypt for democracy is it not about time we had some democracy and the government listened to the majority will of the people who employ them

[caminito]

International aid ,  EU payments , Immigrant payments & costs, All the outrageous benefit payments to "career" single mums & dubious claiments.
EVERYONE seems to be top of the list EXCEPT the Pensioners who the majority of the 12 million have paid into the system  and should be receiving the support due to them

Thousands of local councillors have seen their allowances soar in the past five years, astonishing figures reveal.

The town hall payouts have risen by up to 150 per cent to a total cost of more than £200million a year.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1357034/Councillors-payouts-soared-local-services-face-savage-cuts.html#ixzz1E2QsfQCw

[avalonmpk2]

My bloods boiling I won't comment - I do not have command of sufficient Anglo-Saxon expletive euphemisms!!

[Chrisjay]

Well you will need to sit and think calming thoughts for this one -

Euro Chief Baroness Cathy Ashton (the highest paid woman politician in the world) after calling for a further £2.1 billion of our cast to be paid to North African countries such as Tunisia and Egypt.

Also Italy has asked for £80 million from the EU to help deal with the 'Biblical flood' of illegal immigrants arriving from Tunisia.  Italy said more than 5,000 people had arrived but this could grow to as many as 80,000 on the tiny island of Lampedusa off the coast of Sicily but most would head for France then the UK.

Hello how much can we have to deal with the problem of illegal immigrants??? And what the hell is a 'Biblical flood'

Lets have an uprising then maybe we could get someone to give us this much we could then pay of the national debt and start paying decent wages to the working classes and pensioners (and build a big fence round the country as Greece is doing to keep illegals out).

[avalonmpk2]

The answer:  a referendum  BRITAIN TO BE CLOSED FOR FIVE YEARS  YES OR NO

[Chrisjay]

If only - a referendum on anything would be nice but the government don't trust us to deliver the outcome they would want which we wouldn't !!

[avalonmpk2]

|Yes, there is a vested interest in toadying up to the EU they have to have somewhere to go after they loose their seats that is somewhere at taxpayers expense - An after thought a tax strike by pensioners!!
What happened to: Let the people decide?

[Chrisjay]

Let the people decide - wash your mouth out (so the government would say) that will never ever happen again even if it once did which I can't remember.

When did this country last have a referendum?

I lived in Dublin for 8 years in the 80's and we had three refendums in that time, they have had them since as they had one about rejecting the Lisbon Treaty if I remember correctly !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[avalonmpk2]

Ah the ha'penny bridge and the ballad pubs and Little ronnie drew the black velvet band and dicey rielly - and I run like Hell with me navvy boots on!!!

[charlie gracie]

I cannot believe how gullible people are.
We are having all these cuts imposed on us due to Money grabbing Bankers.
and dishonest politicians out of touch with reality, They are still in well paid jobs
being paid obscene salaries and still awarding themselves Bonuses, or claiming Expenses.
The mess this country is in .was not the fault of us pensioners who have worked hard all our lives. but due to  Gross mismanagement of those in power.
Before cutting back on services The Government should stop wasting money on a
No win war in Afghanistan(they should read up  history of the Afghans)
Also when will governments ever learn that aid to foreign countries rarely gets to the people. it goes into  the coffers of despot self appointed  Presidents.
Meanwhile we put up with cuts-cuts- cuts,
Vast areas of India are a disgrace while the high class Hindus who live in absolute luxury  have enough wealth to give all the population a reasonable standard  of life.







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[avalonmpk2]

The Bankers (now what does that rhyme with) aren't all to blame, After all the government of the day sets the rules and laws that is where the buck stops. After all the investment banks control nearly everyone's pension fund - who was it that took the tax relief from pension investment dividends which in my own case worked out at £16.48 per week off my pension,  and reduced every senior citizens purchasing power and reduced our standard of living; a fellow called Brown. He should be impeached -  No hung drawn and quartered!

[Chrisjay]

You get my vote on that

[avalonmpk2]

We agree again! to quote Ronald Reagan 'There you go again' only this time it is a compliment- Question most of the people I come into contact appear to have similar views to myself how come then that we 15 years of wasting tax payers money and now a coalition who still want to waste our money (YES OUR MONEY)

[Chrisjay]

As I was walking Jac this evening I was thinking of what Cameron has done to justify my vote in the past and how I view his achievements (or lack of) so far.

He has obviously done another deal with Clegg otherwise he would have had a re shuffle. 

Surely in this country we have people with brains and expertise that could sort the country out and sort out the inflated spending and ego's of the public sector including councils and government without sacking soldiers and airforce personnel and leaving pensioners and the disabled on the breadline?