Foreign Aid

algas said:
Its about time that foreign aid was withdrawn and replaced solely by disaster aid. Why do we send money to China, India, Pakistan etc who have large armies, nuclear capability's and astro industries, they should put their own house in order before spending on these things.
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Ask the Government.

But i believe a lot of that money is spent on the "boat people" currently
 
I used to be against foreign aid.

I agree the likes of India and China should be excluded but poor countries do need it.

However I think the money falls into the wrong hand. So our government should not give money but build infrastructure to benefit the poor. And do this using British firms.
 
Last year £2.9 billion of the foreign aid budget was spent on housing/supporting asylum seekers.
 
fillyboy said:
Last year £2.9 billion of the foreign aid budget was spent on housing/supporting asylum seekers.
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Read post 2.

But I didn't put in the actual figure

Would have been better off being spent proactively, not reactively
 
algas said:
replaced solely by disaster aid.
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yes we need disaster aid after 14 years of Tories

The Victorian Disease Take Over​

Health officials raise the alarm as several bygone diseases make a return to the UK


If the infectious disease onslaught is not enough, we're also struggling with malnutrition, with both rickets and scurvy increasingly rearing their ugly heads across the UK (over 28,000 cases of rickets and 269 cases of scurvy reported since 2019)


Tory Brexit Britain
 
Notch7 said:
yes we need disaster aid after 14 years of Tories

The Victorian Disease Take Over​

Health officials raise the alarm as several bygone diseases make a return to the UK


If the infectious disease onslaught is not enough, we're also struggling with malnutrition, with both rickets and scurvy increasingly rearing their ugly heads across the UK (over 28,000 cases of rickets and 269 cases of scurvy reported since 2019)


Tory Brexit Britain
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and thats the indigenous population my arse its the influx of disease ridden illegals
 
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Nutritional rickets in immigrant and refugee children

Immigrant and refugee populations bring public health challenges to host nations. In the current global refugee crisis, children are the most vulnerable subpopulation. Diseases that were considered rare in the host nation may be highly prevalent among ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

Unless you say we get different immigrants from these areas
 
gas112 said:
and thats the indigenous population my arse its the influx of disease ridden illegals
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well thats odd, gas112 claims asylum seekers come here because its the "land of milk and honey"

now he claims asylum seekers are so badly treated they are suffering Victorian diseases
 
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