Re: PM promises to break manifesto tax pledges
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SLUDGE FACTORY
Fck off Carol you Talentless cttt
I think she was talking about Sir Kier not you :hehe:
Re: PM promises to break manifesto tax pledges
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Originally Posted by
William Treseder
You’re forgetting the billions we pay in foreign aid. If you looked at the breakdown of what we pay yearly, who we pay it to and why, it’s mind boggling! We are 2.8 trillion pounds in debt, but hey, that’s not much, let’s help everyone else, and also let’s let 1’000’s and 1,000’s of immigrants to enter the UK illegally and molly coddle them.
Be careful though. If you have the audacity to question any of this on here, you are instantly branded as a right wing racist!!
Cut foreign aid so we can look after our own citizens.
Can poor kids get toast at schools? Also no.
Re: PM promises to break manifesto tax pledges
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jon1959
In 1970 the UK set a target of spending 0.7% of national income on aid. For the next 40 years we got nowhere near that. In 2015 the 0.7% target became law (not an aspiration) and it was met until Boris Johnson reduced it to 0.5% in 2021 during Covid.
In February Starmer announced it would be reduced further - to 0.3% - from 2027, but in annual steps down. The difference between 0.5% and 0.3% is to go on arms (to tick a box with Trump) not on doctors, nurses, police, or getting the homeless into permanent homes.
In the past 2-3 year somewhere between 20% and 35% of the entire overseas aid budget has been spent in the UK on asylum seeker accommodation (hotels, barges, barracks....) and not gone abroad at all!
The biggest single recipient of UK aid is Ukraine!
https://www.context.news/socioeconom...s-the-money-go
I don’t really care what % of whatever it is, this country is in a mess and the things our tax is supposed to pay for are struggling badly.
Before you can afford philanthropic ways, you should really be sorted in your own house.
