The UK is housing so many asylum seekers that more than half the foreign aid budget earmarked for poor countries is now being spent in Britain, new figures suggest.
In 2023, the UK spent £9.9 billion in bilateral aid – yet 54 per cent of this was used domestically, according to the Centre for Global Development (CGD), which analysed data released by the Foreign Office data on Wednesday. This was an increase from 48 per cent the previous year.
More than £5bn to keep worthless moochers in comfort? Seems pricey.
I don’t know how much torpedoes cost, but I bet they are cheaper.
Do you reckon that the illegals are actually building a space rocket, as India did with their aid ?
Like these guys
https://youtu.be/nUHVVltZQ18?feature=shared
I was quite surprised and pleased that at least part of the foreign aid budget was being used for something useful (useful in that at least it prevents even more taxpayer money being allocated to pamper these parasites) rather than being ring-fenced for the usual overseas vanity projects.
Oxfam will be seething.
Marius, nice idea but our torpedoes have probably all been given to Zelensky and his chums.
Bit on the telly this morning about the struggle local councils are having with the cost of housing ‘homeless’ people.
Gov statement along the lines of how much money (£1.2Bn, but didn’t mention it was ‘taxpayer’ money) they were giving local councils and the claim that ‘we have exited 100 hotels’.
Those people have gone somewhere though, haven’t they* and perhaps that’s why the local councils are struggling….
*This week three of them into the flat next door to my ex. Not white and not a word of English. We’re fucked.
Charity begins at home.
We used to send money to bare-arsed Africans and the like, because we felt sorry for them having to live where they did. Over the last 40 years, the policy seems to have changed so that we now import the bare-arsed ones, clean them up a bit, and let them live here. So why are we still spending foreign aid on them? Aren’t benefits and a crack at Uber-driving and dodgy restaurant work enough for them?
Surely it must be possible to spend the foreign aid budget on re-acquainting foreigners with their native lands? How many knife-wielders could a big container ship carry?
(Though I’ll grant you that a container ship might not be the ideal technology for returning unwanted invaders to Eastern Europe. Still, both Russia and Ukraine are going to need immigrants so maybe we could say “we’ll give you a tank if you’ll also accept a thousand of the buggers”.)
The visible population of the town I live in, in West Wales has changed dramatically over the last five years since I moved here.
Initially outside of the kebab shop or the hospital seeing an obvious ethnic minority was almost a talking point and indicated the tourist season had started. I drove down the high street yesterday and locals were outnumbered.
I’m in Japan right now. Many foreigners around in big cities. Almost all are tourists. Lots of cleaning and restaurant staff are Indian or such like and mostly tiny. More English being used nowadays too.
Place is still clean, still safe, still cooperative and well run. Clearly not seeing the benefits of diversity that we have in London and the UK
Andrew Again, the Japs resisted letting third worlders into their country for decades, but under pressure from the ‘enlightend’ West, they relented. There is a recent video out there of the Nip Police ‘Interviewing’ (read – torturing) some effnic who abused a 14 year old Japenese girl. Put out into the interweb by the Jap police….as a warning to others. We should be doing the same…..