India tell Britain we don't want your aid

rick1


Joined: 20/04/2010
Posts: 44

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 12:21

India ays it does not want or need UK aid, where should it go.





http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9061844/India-tells-Britain-We-dont-want-your-aid.html

elko2



Joined: 24/07/2007
Posts: 4400

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 13:26

Indian economy may be growing by 10% per year but the level of poverty there is unbelievable.

ismet

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 14:03

It should be given to uk residents who really need help.

martinD41


Joined: 06/09/2010
Posts: 3001

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 14:26

Perhaps Britain should offer the aid to Pakistan...that should put the "Cat among the pigeons".

girne 29


Joined: 06/12/2007
Posts: 1488

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 14:31

Deniz

''It should be given to uk residents who really need help.''



Not a popular view in this forum ,where unemployed, disabled,single mothers trying to work , and any other disadvantaged ,are generally termed ''scroungers''.

Blackpoolfan


Joined: 03/12/2008
Posts: 1568

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 15:17

Good then the UK should spend it on the British People Simple!!!!!!!!!

suehowlittle


Joined: 31/10/2010
Posts: 1202

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 16:31

India, like lots of other countries does not allow the wealth to trickle down to the poorest in society, so this aid is still needed.



They should be ashamed who live in luxury whilst others are trying to exist on less than a dollar a day.



This is certainly not a western sickness, it is the same all over the world. Why?

yrret


Joined: 17/08/2010
Posts: 761

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 17:18

Excellent news, would be nice to see the money spend on the UK Anglo Saxon/ Norman elderly who have worked and contributed all their lives only to be treated as second class citizen whilst illegals claim all and sundry.

No pay, in no pay out as far as I am concerned, and as for helping the starving masses, whilst their own ministers ride round in 600 mercs' .......... get their own house in order first.



And for anyone that 'really' believes in helping the starving in India, get your but on a plane, with all your savings, and do something ............. if you 'really' believe in it.

suehowlittle


Joined: 31/10/2010
Posts: 1202

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 17:48

Your second paragraph means that you have understood my offering.

Hector


Joined: 26/08/2008
Posts: 2352

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 17:57

The Sunday Times has pointed out that India has just turned down the UK £13bn bid to supply them with the Eurofighter Typhoon (as well as the US) , in favour of the much inferior French Rafale. It seems there is the whiff of backhanders and the offer to trade French nuclear technology and equipment (despite a ban on supplying it to India). Nothing new there then. Meanwhile President Sarkozy spends £10,000 a day on food and drink and has 121 cars parked in his garage under the Elysee Palace.

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 20:37

My daughter is disabled she has M S. She lost her job just before Christmas and has not signed on for anything. She spends hours looking for jobs. I dare any one to call her a scrounger but she could some help.

rolly


Joined: 12/03/2009
Posts: 107

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 21:04

india dont want our aid.well maybe they can give some back then now they are on the up.where does the money come from when most people in gb are down to bare minimum.the goverment say they must keep things tight by robbing oaps and the disabled to give millions to foreign countries has hand outs. they find that money.mr mitchell the mp for foreign aid distribution used to be our mp but didnt even live in our county. he did nothing for us just got us into debt and raised taxes got voted out then sucked up to cammeron to get his latest top job. we all need to think hard next time round when voteing people. just my opinion.

karakum5c



Joined: 18/03/2008
Posts: 1021

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 21:57

msg 11 ................get your daughter to take her job seekers allowance.



i used to work with asylum seekers in regards of benefits, every one of them claimed to be a victim of torture so they could claim the maximum in benefits...................we accepted this as true although common sense says it is not possible that everyone could be one.



the amounts we paid out were staggering, the money they got was more than i received in pay.



as a Uk citizen your daughter has paid into the system and deserves its help at a time of crisis in her life

TheFiver


Joined: 09/01/2011
Posts: 52

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 22:20

The government will probably end up giving it to other scroungers, in the UK and abroad who don't deserve it. One of the reason's I moved here...p****d off with the hypocracy.

birdman



Joined: 20/09/2010
Posts: 690

Message Posted:
05/02/2012 22:24

And they say that the British are racist ? The class system in India is among the worst in the world. I am all for helping those who try to help themselves but am totally against those who beg when they could find meaningful jobs. There are MANY fantastically rich people in India, it's such a pity that THEY don't do anything to help their own poor.



Gerry

bertieboss


Joined: 22/07/2011
Posts: 149

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 01:39

Message15 - many rich in the uk do nothing to help their poor!!

Don't point the finger at other countries when our wealthy are some of the greediest and most corrupt anywhere.

And where exactly are all these "meaningful" jobs you and others keep on about?

JohnDownes


Joined: 03/12/2010
Posts: 123

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 06:55

I think this clip says it all...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OA9t61PuiDc

birdman



Joined: 20/09/2010
Posts: 690

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 08:35

bertieboss,

are you suggesting that many of the so called "poor" are "NOT ABLE TO WORK?"

Some maybe, but many are "lead swingers", scroungers and spongers from society who are well capable of contributing to earn a living, but refuse to do so because they are lazy and have got used to getting handouts at little or no effort on their part!

On what do you base your assumption that " our wealthy are some of the greediest and corrupt anywhere" ?

And even if they were so, what has that got to do with "Rich Indians" not assisting their own people ?

As for the meaningful jobs available, just look in the jobs available columns in the national press. Don't tell me there are none!?



Gerry

elko2



Joined: 24/07/2007
Posts: 4400

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 09:16

I think somebody once described foreign aid as such:



It is help given by poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries.



ismet

SWCathy


Joined: 22/11/2011
Posts: 292

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 11:17

Put it on the Old Aged Pension

davpat


Joined: 23/08/2011
Posts: 225

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 11:17

message 11,



Deniz,



She should claim all that is due to her,it is her right,that is what the benefit is there for,surely in her position she could not be called a scrounger?!





David

SWCathy


Joined: 22/11/2011
Posts: 292

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 11:37

I worked for Government funded disabled centre, designed to give disabled people training in office/computing skills in order to enter the workplace and earn a living. It was very successful. We had nurses/drivers/labourers etc who had back and other injuries and could not carry on with their occupation - we re-trained them and found them employment.

One deformed young girl who had no confidence whatever and only 5 stumps as fingers wanted to touch type. We developed a system for her and she got up to 42 words per minute. When I showed her someone (with 10 fingers) typing with 2 fingers, she said 'I can type twice as fast as him with my 5 stumps' that is often the spirit of real disabled person. She did it, and she now works in a public library dealing with the public every day. REAL disabled want to work and be like everyone else. There were scroungers on the scheme-they did not want to work nor go into the workplace they were not disabled but con-artists freeloading!!!!!

TimothyCadman


Joined: 13/12/2007
Posts: 1040

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 11:42

I think the aid should goto the TRNC. The UK government doesn't have to recognise the state but it can claim to be helping an under developed country raise its living standards to reach a level that is more consistant with 21st century living.

Quarmby


Joined: 15/09/2008
Posts: 975

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 13:26

Tim



have you forgotten the millions of Euros that have been poured into the TRNC by the EU.



Eg The repaving of the oneway system and pavements. What did some of the apprceiative locals do ?



Used the pavements as a car park.



No I say Britain should look after their own first.

LaptaGeezer


Joined: 01/06/2010
Posts: 407

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 14:09

Message 8.... couldn't agree more!!

westender


Joined: 14/05/2009
Posts: 328

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 18:53

Message 11, please get your daughter to sign on if only to get her National Insurance credits which count towards entitlement to a state pension. It can also cause headaches with HMRC if you don't sign on as as they will want to know what she has been doing since losing her job. Someone I know has just received an estimated tax bill for £13000 because he didn't sign on and it has been a real headache for him to sort out.

jaga01


Joined: 24/12/2011
Posts: 97

Message Posted:
06/02/2012 18:59

Maybe give Aid to British Airways to send all the unlegal imigrants home for christmas or even longer ??