The Mail vs foreign aid

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7339

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Yeah, of course they have very useful spin-offs- cricket's Hawkeye, for example. But presumably it would cost a lot less to concentrate directly on useful areas, rather than buiding weapons and belatedly following stuff up.

Does India even make weapons itself, or buy them off the shelf?

India has been making weapons since time began.
Continued under the Empire and still does.

The pressure to innovate was driven by the poor adaptability of many weapons designed for battling in Flanders mud or other parts of the European theatre.

I wish I could quote a horde of modern examples, but the only one I can tank of is a Battle Tank called the Arjun.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sat Dec 03, 2011 9:08 pm

Not according to this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms_industry

Top of the imports, they are.

I assume a fair bit is sold by Britain. Ploughshares into arms.

Actually, we're encouraging slipping down that list.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sat Dec 03, 2011 9:10 pm

KevS wrote:

Now a law for foreign aid! Ministers want to commit Britain to billions in handouts

As you'd expect, the comments are full of festive cheer.

For my own part, I'll give this a go:

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The usual sort of scare-mongering I note from a newspaper and readership that is all to ready to boast on other stories that we are a Christian country with Christian values, but when it comes to helping those less fortunate than themselves, which I believe is something Jesus was quite hot on, they don't want to know.

Any mention in the story of money flying out of developing countries into the City of London? Sometimes via methods no more subtle than carrying it a suitcase?

ezinra · **Posted:** Sun Dec 09, 2012 11:40 pm

Britain gives millions in 'climate aid' to tackle flatulent Colombian cows... plus £31m to Turkish wind farms and funding for talks with Kenyan 'rain-makers'

Jacob Rees-Mogg isn't happy, bless him.

I predict this story gets recycled whenever Littlejohn can next be arsed to file some copy.

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Last night DECC said that supporting developing countries in cutting emissions was a ‘sensible investment’, and added that ‘turning our back’ could ‘cause a range of impacts including conflict over resources, political upheaval and more extreme weather events’.
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Turkey, the DECC said, was a ‘middle income country’ and so eligible for funding, while the money for Uganda was not passing through the country’s government, but through the private sector, with protocols in place to prevent corruption.

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When will these Nuts realize that there has been climate change since the world began, and throwing any amount of money at it will not change anything, nature always wins. do these nuts still believe that the earth is flat, and it is about to end. about time that this nonsense was put aside.

- MIke, cyprus, Cyprus, 9/12/2012 7:40 Rating 861

shyamz · **Posted:** Tue Dec 11, 2012 1:36 am

Yes, because people believing the world was flat in the days before they had the evidence and technology to know otherwise, is exactly the same as believing in climate change today based on the scientific knowledge and research experts provide us with. Moron.

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