General Chat

But it must be right it's anti Brexit....and was spoken by the wise one. :-D

I am just going by stuff as reported in Vilnius and by the UK F.O. Nothing secret. as Magpie says charity begins at home or at least nearby. doubt if nearby would stretch to the Ukraine tho'

That the world is and always has been full of terror misery and dishonesty does not mean it is OK to pass on the other side of the road.

Most of Brit foreign aid does an excellent but unreported job. Paul Dacre and such loathsome people will never agree and to tell the truth I dont care what they and their acolytes say, do or think.

Having not checked lately....what % of aid goes to India for instance and agreed space travel is excellent..how is the UK space programme ?.....how many schools have been built around the world on UK funds and never used ?....sometimes you can pour endless amounts into a pot and that pot will never fulfil it's function as there are too many bleeder holes from it funding a rich leader for instance....none of which is anything to do with Brexit. :-)

One shouldn't pass by on the other side but one also shouldn't give for the sake of it.

The effects of civil war have contributed to more than one million people facing starvation in South Sudan.

South Sudan has officially declared the first famine in the world for six years, with more than one million people on the brink of starvation because of prolonged civil war, poor governance and economic crisis.

The announcement that more than 100,000 people in two counties of Unity state are experiencing famine and an additional one million South Sudanese faced starvation came from the government and three UN agencies.

“Our worst fears have been realized,” said Serge Tissot, head of the food and agriculture organisation in South Sudan, a country that just six years ago was fêted as the world’s newest in a independence process backed by global powers. {The Times 21.02.17}.

Desperately sad and tragic, it all started with such high hopes, but soon disintegrated into war with all its accompanying horrors. No amount of aid will significantly help these poor people who are constantly caught up in these vicious cycles of violence. God knows what the answer is.

Unfortunately ISIS and other extreme Muslim organizations are not helping the cause of anybody.

Not long after 9/11 there was a disaster in Pakistan, I can't remember what it was, a flood or an earthquake I think. Anyway they had very little help form the outside world because people who might have given regardless of crede were remembering the mindless atrocity committed in the name of their national religion.

And so it goes on!!!!

By sheer human nature you will never have everyone living in peace nor well fed nor educated nor clothed...sad but true.
In the past yes it has been Western countries that have helped themselves to the goodies, not always caring what they left behind.
Today it's more likely warlords taking what they want with no regard to what they leave in the shadow.
The UK could spend ten times what they spend now, fund raisers by the public when a disaster occurs could raise record breaking amounts but it will change little...war lords will still grow richer, people will still have more children than they can raise albeit with good intentions, natural disasters will still happen.