Angola has urged the UK to adopt an emergency poverty strategy to protect its most vulnerable citizens from the cost-of-living crisis.
The call – from a country where more than half of its population of 34 million people live on less than $2 (£1.75) a day, on behalf of citizens of one of the world’s richest – was among several concerns raised before a UN review of the UK’s human rights record today.
But that is what will happen when you forget the difference between absolute poverty and relative poverty.
Perhaps instead of spending to reduce poverty round the world we should divert the funds for use at home.
The Angola government is running out of money to steal.
That is serious.
Lead headline on the Guardian website now:
“David Walliams recorded making derogatory remarks about BGT contestants”
The Guardian is a serious media outlet – discuss
Don’t forget, last time we were in financial straights in the 70’s, Ugandan dictator Idi Amin offered to send us bananas.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/how-idi-amin-offered-lorryload-of-vegetables-to-feed-starving-britain-p5rpd2qzvgg
It’s around 60 years since The Manchester Guardian changed its name and moved to the Smoke. That roughly coincides with its ceasing to be a serious paper.
Is this some variety of the Nigerian 419 e-mails? Anyone read the full text? It ask for your bank details?
Yes. The Grauniad often asks for your bank details. Seems to be some kind of money laundering scam or tax evasion than 419 though.