David Cameron has admitted that billions of British foreign aid money has been ‘wasted’ yet defends its increase to £12 billion a year – meanwhile, polls show the majority of Britons want to see foreign aid and EU subsidies cut.
Hundreds of millions of pounds of British money sent to improve India’s schools has been wasted, as a governmental report reveals the country’s education standards are in fact falling.
The news that China’s new £20.5 billion super passenger train hit a record speed of 302 miles per hour last Friday will doubtless be ecstatically received by British taxpayers who still provide £40.2 million of “foreign aid” to that nation every year.
British taxpayers will be forced to hand over £50.8 billion in foreign aid handouts to the Third World by 2014, which translates to 61 percent of the total “spending review” cuts announced by the Government this year.
At least £32.5 million out of last year’s “foreign aid” budget was spent on taxis, newspapers, staff bonuses and offices by the Department for International Development (DFID), new figures released by that office have revealed.
Evidence of the vicious anti-British nature of the Westminster parties has come with the “education budget cut” announced by the ConDem regime — which inadvertently revealed that the foreign aid budget is now twice as high as the higher education budget.
In the same week that the ConDem regime announced plans to “overhaul” the benefits system for British people, the Department for International Development (DFID) announced a brand new foreign aid scheme designed to “boost employment” in the Third World.
Prominent Indian academic professor Roshan Doug has shocked the liberal establishment with a forthright call to end British foreign aid to his native country which he has dismissed as “disingenuous” and “corrupt.”
Media reports are abuzz with stories that David Cameron has ordered Ministers to draw up 40 percent spending cuts — while a new report just out has revealed a series of staggeringly stupid projects included in the £9 billion “ring fenced” foreign aid budget.
The ConDem coalition government has cut £2 billion of domestic projects which will see job creation, university skill retention projects and a hospital stopped in favour of increasing the foreign aid budget to £13 billion per year.