Should this money not be spent in the UK?

[Jusoda Kid 1]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7198546.stm

 

 

Brown announces India aid package

 

Gordon Brown has announced a new package of development aid for India, worth £825m over the next three years.

 

The funding is expected to target areas such as the eastern state of Bihar, one of India's poorest.

 

Mr Brown was speaking at the start of a two-day visit to India intended to improve business ties and co-operation in the fight against terrorism.

 

He is using his visits to China and India to promote better trade agreements with the UK.

 

Upon his arrival in Delhi, Mr Brown toured a project designed to boost the role of women in society with his wife Sarah.

 

He said: "We are inspired by the young girls here who are telling us of their aspirations for the future.

 

"Women are changing India and... are the driving force of change for the future."

 

Mr Brown said that of the new aid package, £500m will be dedicated to health and education.

 

He said the money would be used to train 300,000 new teachers and build 300,000 new classrooms, meaning 4m more children would receive an education.

 

 

What we need now is a comprehensive action plan, if you like a global action against terrorism

Prime Minister Gordon Brown

 

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The prime minister is also being accompanied on his trip by a group of academics from colleges such as Oxford University and Imperial College London, who are hoping to encourage stronger links between British and Indian universities.

 

Mr Brown and his entourage flew in to the Indian capital New Delhi on Sunday from the Chinese city of Shanghai.

 

The delegation includes senior industry figures, including CBI director general Richard Lambert and Virgin Group's Sir Richard Branson, and double Olympic gold medallist Dame Kelly Holmes.

 

Action plan

 

Mr Brown has also called on the Indian authorities to play a greater role in the fight against terrorism, saying he wants to see cross-religion co-operation on the issue.

 

He told the BBC there needed to be "greater co-operation between the major countries in the fight against terrorism" and said China, Pakistan and India all had a part to play in rooting out those responsible.

 

He called on India to join the Financial Action Taskforce, an inter-governmental body which helps combat money laundering and terrorist financing.

 

Prime Minister Gordon Brown ©, his wife Sarah (L) and Indian Minister of State for Commerce Ashwani Kumar

Mr Brown was greeted by the Indian minister of state for commerce

 

Greater co-operation was also needed on what to do in crowded places, such as security at airports and ports, he said.

 

He added that extremist ideologies needed to be fought and that co-operation across religions was "going to be very important for the future".

 

"So what we need now is a comprehensive action plan, if you like a global action against terrorism," he said.

 

Save the Children said the British aid package must reach India's excluded children.

 

Shireen Vakil Miller, of Save the Children India, said: "There is a real need to examine how children are looked at in a country that allocates less than 5% of its GDP to children, despite the fact they make up almost 40% of the population."

[Guest alex]

Should this money not be spent in the UK?

On immigrants?

[peasepud 59]

Isnt this more a spend to accumulate mission?

 

We give them aid they in turn give us cheap call centres and help out in the fight against terrorism.

 

The bit that got me was.....

 

....the money would be used to train 300,000 new teachers and build 300,000 new classrooms, meaning 4m more children would receive an education.

 

So that works out at just over 13 kids per classroom, surely they could have squeezed a few more in and saved a bit cash?

[Kevin Carr's Gloves 4098]

The Indian government spends more of it's GDP on defence than we do.They can fuck off we should give them nothing. How much have we lost in tax since all of the call centres went to India?

[Rob W 0]

I think India and CHina sare out of the aid League

 

What Brown probably means is a subsidy for British goods (water pumps, land rovers, etc) so we "gice" them to the Indians and subsidise jobs in the UK

 

A few years ago we "gave" the kenyans a complete air traffic control system for example - sommat they'd been crying out for in the slums of Nairobbery for decades

[Guest Stevie]

Should this money not be spent in the UK?

On immigrants?

Or sending immigrants who refuse to speak English home?

 

[Meenzer 15877]

Should this money not be spent in the UK?

On immigrants?

Or sending immigrants who refuse to speak English home?

As long as we can cope with the influx of pensioners and Daily Mail readers when Spain enforces the same policy

 

etc. etc.

 

[RlCO 0]

Should this money not be spent in the UK?

On immigrants?

Or sending immigrants who refuse to speak English home?

As long as we can cope with the influx of pensioners and Daily Mail readers when Spain enforces the same policy

 

etc. etc.

 

 

 

They're already knocking their villas down the dumb fuckers.

[Guest alex]

Should this money not be spent in the UK?

On immigrants?

Or sending immigrants who refuse to speak English home?

As long as we can cope with the influx of pensioners and Daily Mail readers when Spain enforces the same policy

 

etc. etc.

 

That's different though

[Guest Stevie]

Should this money not be spent in the UK?

On immigrants?

Or sending immigrants who refuse to speak English home?

As long as we can cope with the influx of pensioners and Daily Mail readers when Spain enforces the same policy

 

etc. etc.

 

People like Terry Leather and Ally Frazer have kept the Spanish economy going, different altogether. They need us, we don't need most immigrants.

[Guest alex]

Should this money not be spent in the UK?

On immigrants?

Or sending immigrants who refuse to speak English home?

As long as we can cope with the influx of pensioners and Daily Mail readers when Spain enforces the same policy

 

etc. etc.

 

People like Terry Leather and Ally Frazer have kept the Spanish economy going, different altogether. They need us, we don't need most immigrants.

The UK economy makes a significant net gain on immigration iirc.

[Fop 1]

Should this money not be spent in the UK?

On immigrants?

Or sending immigrants who refuse to speak English home?

As long as we can cope with the influx of pensioners and Daily Mail readers when Spain enforces the same policy

 

etc. etc.

 

People like Terry Leather and Ally Frazer have kept the Spanish economy going, different altogether. They need us, we don't need most immigrants.

The UK economy makes a significant net gain on immigration iirc.

 

That's the biggest lie since the last thing FFS said (or the last thing the Government said on immigration or ID cards or party funding - choice is yours).

 

If you stand on one leg, squint and completely ignore all the costly bits then yes it's a "net gain", otherwise not so much.

 

 

Kinda like inflation is at 2.7% just so long as you completely ignore all the factors that make real inflation 4%+.

[Jusoda Kid 1]

Much prefer to see it go to Muslim scout groups tbh

[Smooth Operator 10]

This topic is a bit high-brow for a Byker druggie - Wacky what has happened to you? You're half the man you used to be!