Backbenchers were angry that around £12billion has been spent by the Government this year on overseas development while just £695million was earmarked for flooding and erosion.
Philip Davies, Tory MP for Shipley, said: “I said this years ago in Parliament when we had the first waves of flooding in Somerset.
“It is crazy to be giving all this money abroad in foreign aid when people at home were suffering from an emergency just as bad as anywhere else in the world.
“The money should be diverted to helping the UK first and that should be the Government’s priority.”
He said the vast majority of his Tory colleagues in the Commons agreed privately with his stance.
Just a politician voicing this is a sign of the times. It exemplifies the money crunch, the excess resource wasting of the past, and the psychological shift beginning.
Once resources are really scarce, there won’t be a debate over this. Every one of those pounds was earned by a British citizen, taken by the government, and wasted on outsiders nobody even knows, for no reason at all. It would be changed now, but for the current resource abundance deadening amygdalae and making everyone too lazy to act.
Both that resource abundance and the amygdala weakness will be changed soon enough.
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The reason why first world governments give away so much foreign aid had nothing to do with preferring foreigners to citizens.
My understanding of how foreign aid works came sharply into focus when I realized it had nothing to do with making things better, and in fact if it did make things better, that would actually be bad.
Rather, those huge sums of foreign aid exist (charitably) as a carrot to get those foreign nations to do as we tell them lest all of that money that gets funneled into the bank accounts of various third world assholes get cut off.
Foreign aid is nothing more than a gold-plated methodology to get an obstinate junky to do what we want.
(Comments are closed on the dating site article, so I’m commenting here. My wordpress does that sometimes too, and I can NOT figure out a pattern on it.) It could also be simply market forces, in that as CH has pointed out many times, the statistics show that white women aren’t very interested in dating non-white men, but non-white men are DYING to date white women. It could simply be a way for white women who are tired of having to filter out non-white men to have a more convenient system.
the flooding was also caused by the leftists. it was engineered it was not an act of nature, it is amazing what the left can do when they control the dams and flood gates. .
the leftists have flooded peoples in england australia and the USA. don’t expect it to get better until the leftists are removed from all levels of government. sadly I don’t think that will happen until after a hot war and by then things will be wrecked.