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Thursday 5 April 2012

Aid Money Well Spent

India is recipient on hundreds of millions of pounds in foreign aid from the UK, despite us being broke. So most UK taxpayers will be thrilled to note that this week India took possession of a new Russian-built nuclear-powered submarine, the Chakra, into its fleet. Its also building a new class of nuclear-powered boats intended to carry nuclear-armed ballistic missiles.
  
Apparently a refurbished Russian aircraft carrier with advanced Mig-29K jets will enter service next year, followed by an Indian-built aircraft carrier in due course.

Of course the irony is that while India is busy spending billions on these weapons, and we feed their poor, our own armed forces are being cut, soldiers and sailors laid off and the Harrier jump jets and HMS Ark Royal and HMS Invincible have been scrapped. This leaves the UK with no functioning aircraft carriers, while India will have two by next year.

UK used to be a major naval power .... now?

If anyone except some PC bonehead can explain why we give £800 million to a self styled 'super power' which is spending billions on rockets, and aircraft carriers, while we make our armed forces redundant, and strip ourselves of the very same capabilities please get in touch.   

Its also ironic to note that India wants a seat on the UN security council, at the UK's expense .... no doubt we will still be giving them 'aid' as they kick our lily white asses out of the doors of influence.  

1 comment:

  1. Allegedly the Indians have told the UK to stuff the aid money, they don't want it 'its peanuts'. But the UK Department for International Development asked them to keep taking it because 'British ministers had spent political capital justifying the aid to their electorate'.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/9061844/India-tells-Britain-We-dont-want-your-aid.html

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