OVERSEAS AID

It has now emerged that India does not even want the aid which the Liberal Democrat/Tory coalition government is lavishing that country. India was the largest net recipient of aid in 2010. Pranab Mukherjee told the Indian parliament:

'We do not require the aid. It is a peanut in our total development
spending.'

It has been revealed that British officials begged India to accept the aid:

'They said British ministers had spent political capital justifying the aid to their electorate. They said that it would be highly embarrassing if [India] pulled the plug.'

This is a truly disgraceful state of affairs, that scarce resources are being squandered on this scale simply to make a bunch of wet liberals look good.

The Tory MP Peter Bone said:

'India has its own foreign aid programme so it is absurd for us to be giving them aid. They are more than capable of looking after their own issues.

As for the 0.7% target, it is a vanity project that is being pursued for no good reason at all. I do not understand the Government's position on this and I don't think the British public do either.'

QUOTE OF THE MONTH

'The capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.'

- Lenin

This quote is worth remembering bearing in mind the news that British employers are advertising many thousands of jobs in Romania despite the high levels of unemployment at home. Jobs such as taxi drivers and even junior doctors are being advertised, despite, for example, there being an estimated 3,000 unemployed junior doctors in the Britain.

The Forum for Private Business is trotting out the usual cliches about there being a shortage of skilled workers, poor numeracy and literacy and a poor attitude. These anti-English insults should be ignored. The employers are recruiting foreigners because they can hire people at a lower wage than they might otherwise have to pay; they also believe that being pro-mass immigration makes them look good.

Once again it is the English taxpayer who has to pay for this. It is the English taxpayer who has to cover the cost of extra demands on essential services [eg schools and the NHS] and the other costs of mass immigration such as the needless levels of unemployment.