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.'