Redkop

Couldn't the money be spent saving our own floundering NHS?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4228410.stm

Patt@firstime

UB - Anything to add

Matt

P.S Hiya Lynne - you ok?

Redkop

Hiya Matt, yep I'm fine thanks

richs2891

yes I honestly think we need to concentrate on solving the problems in our country before helping others.

Richard

pugoetru

our country doesn't have any problems


We are GREAT britain

rossyboy

iTrader: (8)

Believe me £70M does not go very far in the NHS!

Brendan Hughes

No, but it could be spent on our floundering NHS.

unclebuck

Yea - it pisses me off. Brown and his little politically correct project to patronise the Africans. Like the guy said on the news this morning - the children will only survive these diseases to live a life of poverty in a war torn continent and then die young from some other disease. Still, if it makes Brown feel better.

I wish he could concentrate his efforts on sorting out the financial waste of his own making that has led the country into a massive fiscal black hole.

Midlife......

iTrader: (2)

AFAIK this is money he has "borrowed" against future aid budgets so it has no current fiscal impact....... only less money to spend on aid in the coming years.

It's all explained on another BBC web page ..

Midlife.....

ALi-B

iTrader: (1)

Here's my cynical view:

Saving "millions" will also mean you will have to feed millions, cloth millions, educate millions, have even more millions of poverty stricken trying get what they can and millions trying to immigrate to here or other more developed worlds for a better chance in life.

If your going to donate to "save them" you should go whole hog and make sure you do it properly, not throw a few quid as an when you please then run off thinking the problem is completely sorted thinking that you done good. Were actually it could be be prolonging and worsening poverty in the areas due to supporting the exponential population increases.

rossyboy

iTrader: (8)

and I for one agree with your cynical view. Mass vasectomies would be a good start.

SJ_Skyline

He's plundered the pension funds, he's taxed us to buggery by nearly all means possible and now he's borrowing money to give away?

Brown, a circle of hell is reserved especially for you!

SWRTWannabe

All those unwanted MMR vaccines have to go somewhere

andy_scouser

Maybe they should freeze all of those swiss bank accounts of the african war lords and pay for it all with that !

Chip Sengravy

2.2 billion will buy a **** load of vasectomies. Sort the problem at the source IMO.

Bubba po

Off with their knackers!

Chip Sengravy

No, theres no need to render them incapable, just let them have the 2.2 children and give them the snip.

Bubba po

Ere, Chip... that Trinny and Suzannah programme's on at the moment and I just heard the quote "But Trinny and Suzannah soon tired of Chip Sengravy".

Care to comment?

Chip Sengravy

Trinny and Susannah talk about clothes and image, not fast food.

It what context was said quote used?

Bubba po

They said "his ***** was too little"

Chip Sengravy

I can't hear you, speak up

Chip

I thought it made you blind not deaf

Chip

dsmith

Not on their IT anyway. A more mismanaged bunch of contracts its hard to imagine.

Any attempt to tie up in a small number of contracts an entire Inudstry's IT Plans for the next decade can only ever hope to end in remarkable overspend. Especially when you have retarded commercial and contract people framing them who barely seem to grasp the concept of "design".

1 year of beating suppliers up on deliveries followed by many years of expensive contract changes when surprise surprise the world moves on and requirements evolve.

Did anyone mention "overspend" ???

Leslie

You can throw as much money as you like at the NHS but it won't work if it is all allowed to create even bigger bureaucracies and ensure that most of it goes to the trust administrators!

We now have consultants being sacked and doctors being turned down for a job.

Les

scoob_babe

but it will go somewhere in helping British citizens who are funding the coffers through their salaries and not everywhere else in the world. Gordon Brown, the world's biggest NIMBY!

The Zohan

Agree 100% UB!