The Conservative Party has announced it intends to dish out British taxpayers’ money with ‘vouchers’ while the Labour Party has announced that it wants to give away an additional £1 billion to selected Third World countries.
The Tories want to pay for private schools in India – at the same time that the Indian government has spent nearly £2 billion buying tanks and its second aircraft carrier.
According to the bizarre Tory plan, ‘aid vouchers’ will be given to millions of people in the Third World so that they can “shop around for the best schools and services,” said Andrew Mitchell, Conservative shadow international development secretary.
It is a pity that British people cannot ’shop around’ for the best schools and services and are forced to take whatever underfunded facilities successive Tory and Labour regimes have thrown at them – but this fact is obviously of no concern to the likes of Mr Mitchell.
In a plan which is guaranteed to lay itself open to the most extreme Third World corruption, the Tory plan involves using aid vouchers “to empower people in developing countries.”
The Tory foreign aid plan, outlined in a document prepared ahead of today’s Government White Paper on aid, includes a pledge from Conservative leader David Cameron to match Labour’s plans to increase foreign aid penny for penny. The foreign aid budget for the year 2010-11 will be £9.1 billion – despite British people suffering all manner of dire shortages at home.
It is disgusting that the Tory and Labour parties could consider increasing foreign aid at a time when British pensioners have to rely on wool clothing donated from Iceland after the outrageously low state pensions were featured in the media there.
The Tory foreign aid plan includes support for private education in India and China – both nations with space programmes and nuclear weapons.
India has a defence budget which runs into the billions. Recent arms deals concluded by the Indian army include the purchase of a refitted Russian aircraft carrier, the Gorshkov, for £1.35 billion ($2.2 billion), 647 T-90 tanks from Russia and the Ukraine for £700 million, and launching a project to build another 1,000 T-90 tanks in India.
According to the Indian Ministry of Defence, India’s navy has ordered another two aircraft carriers due to be completed by 2017. This means that India will soon have a more powerful fleet than Britain – yet the Tories want British taxpayers to build schools in India.
Meanwhile, Labour’s International Development Secretary Douglas Alexander has announced in his White Paper that more than half the additional foreign aid spend (in other words, in addition to the existing largesse which his department showers upon the ungrateful Third World) will be targeted towards the “most fragile” countries.
This means that the British taxpayer is to cough up another £1 billion every year to countries “that have recently emerged from conflict.”
As if this was not insulting enough, the new money will be focussed on providing “security” rather than traditional areas such as health and education, according to the latest Labour plan.
This means that British tax money will now also be spent on other nations’ police, security and justice systems, despite every police force in Britain being woefully underfunded and crying out for additional facilities. (The chronic underfunding of the police in Britain was even the subject of a Parliamentary debate in February this year.)
* The British National Party calls for a complete halt in foreign aid so that this nation can first see to its own people’s needs and balance its books. Only the BNP will put British interests first.
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