Thursday 19 April 2012

Britain hits its third world aid targets...

... which appear to be somewhere in the Indian Ocean.

My latest blogpost: Britain hits its third world aid targets...Tweet this! Posted by Mark Wadsworth at 19:04

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7 comments:

Bayard said...

My God, by the time they get to Agni-VII, the UK will be in range and we will have to invade India!

19 April 2012 at 19:43
Graeme said...

lol - but I hope you are not ignoring the crucial outreach work that goes into ensuring that inhabitants of benighted places such as Canada, USA, Brazil and Tanzania are adequately acquainted with the dangers of a changing climate...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/interactive/2012/apr/03/fco-climate-projects

19 April 2012 at 22:23
Mark Wadsworth said...

B, I'm sure the Chinese will defend their North Atlantic colony.

G, one of my aunts was a German "development officer" out in Mali, things are exactly as pointless as you imagine.

19 April 2012 at 22:52
TheFatBigot said...

We should not forget that India's government has said in the clearest possible terms that it doesn't want "aid" from the UK.

Nonetheless our government knows better and throws money it doesn't have at people who don't need it to achieve ends that won't be met.

You really couldn't make it up.

20 April 2012 at 04:33
Mark Wadsworth said...

TFB, so they did, I didn't know that.

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

20 April 2012 at 08:13
Bayard said...

"Nonetheless our government knows better and throws money it doesn't have at people who don't need it to achieve ends that won't be met. "

I suspect that the purpose of the "aid" is to justify the vast army of bureaucrats, quangocrats, charitistas etc who consume 95% of it on the way there. So that end is met very nicely, thank you.
One can hope that, now that India has said "no", the vast edifice will start to totter, but it is more likely that either they will find a more grateful recipient to act as fig-leaf or everything will carry on as before, except with 100% of the aid being consumed on the way there.

20 April 2012 at 09:22
James Higham said...

All eyes on India [and North Korea].

20 April 2012 at 16:25

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