Brown pledges £825 MILLION to India

[-:Undertaker:-]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7199483.stm

BEYOND belief :@

[Hazza]

How pathetic - What a waste of money.
Brown, try using it on stuff that people want/need in our country, not others.

[cocaine]

whats wrong with him..

[Corporal]

I think gordon brown should pay the UK £875m by the end of this tax year.

[Paulio]

I don't get it, why are we giving India money?

[Technologic]

Bloody hell.

Our government is in shambles. They are too cowardly to have an election, money wasters and half of them have no idea what is actually going on fgs.

[Lycan]

Man i bet China are ******, they could of held out a bit more and got more of our money like India did.

[Markness.]

I think Brown needs to have a look at our own country before plugging that amount of money into other ones.

[--ss--]

Rofl he better be paying it out of his own pockets as i'm sure not going to be wanting my taxes to go to waste like that :/.

[Neversoft]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7199483.stm

BEYOND belief :@

Dude, when you come to power you can do whatever you want... but until then, stop hating on Brown!

[Pyroka]

That is sort of silly, however in the longhaul India could prove quite a good link in wars and politics. Plus with the history of the UK and India, it could help them quite a bit. :]

[Bomb-Head]

I agree that he could be plugging loop holes in our own country before given that amount of money to other countries, however if you think about it thoroughly, that money the government is giving away won't directly effect us as citizens because if they couldn't afford to give it away, they wouldn't - so there's nothing wrong with helping a developing country if we can afford too. It could prove to be a good thing in the future in terms of wars and politics like Pyroka said, for instance it could be an extra allie for Britain in a war.

[Naruto!]

£100m was annoying, £825m is laughable.

[-:Undertaker:-]

I agree that he could be plugging loop holes in our own country before given that amount of money to other countries, however if you think about it thoroughly, that money the government is giving away won't directly effect us as citizens because if they couldn't afford to give it away, they wouldn't - so there's nothing wrong with helping a developing country if we can afford too. It could prove to be a good thing in the future in terms of wars and politics like Pyroka said, for instance it could be an extra allie for Britain in a war.

Britain doesn't need help in mega wars, we are a Nuclear Armed country with 180 warheads capable taking out any city in the world. It does effect us people because we have to pay more tax, we also suffer in the point that our police don't get a pay rise, we can't afford flood defences. Did you know the east side of Britain is disappearing because of coastal erosion, the Government is leaving this land because they 'haven't got enough money' - If we have the cash to give the EU billions and China & India millions then surely we have cash.

[-Xiangu-]

This is absolutely ridiculous. Sort out our own country before giving our money to other people

[Warezkid2]

I throught it was like 300 million or something

then ireaded the title and it almost a billion pounds? LMAO


One word.

gay.

[risque]

Eww. That will attract them to England more than they already are. Brown's tactics are about as good as Lindsay Lohan's music. (It isn't!)

[jackass]

I cannot beleive this.

I thought Tony was bad. :rolleyes:

[zeJosh]

That is sort of silly, however in the longhaul India could prove quite a good link in wars and politics. Plus with the history of the UK and India, it could help them quite a bit. :]

Quite a good link? For what?
Our past slavery? Our devastation since the 1800's?
Many people still hold Britain in grief from this.
Also, how is this good? The more money Britain spends, the higher our
tax shall go. £875m will cause tax inflations, and pay decreases.

[php.net]

This is getting out of hand now. It's about time the GENERAL PUBLIC get a voice on these actions.

[Hazza]

I'm sure it is for a good reasons, but nearly a billion pounds - Some of that could have been spent on different things.

[Catzsy]

You know that we have it good here compared to the developing world.
Britain was an empire that treated these countries poorly and took vast resources & riches from them in days gone by. I think it is only fair that our government helps out countries in dire need. 47% of the children in India are malnourished and they have probably spent more bailing out Northern Rock.

Link to conditions in India:
http://www.placesofhope.com/india.aspx

[le harry]

hahaha

Edited by REDNECK (forum moderator): Please do NOT continue to post pointlessly.

[-:Undertaker:-]

You know that we have it good here compared to the developing world.
Britain was an empire that treated these countries poorly and took vast resources & riches from them in days gone by. I think it is only fair that our government helps out countries in dire need. 47% of the children in India are malnourished and they have probably spent more bailing out Northern Rock.

Link to conditions in India:
http://www.placesofhope.com/india.aspx

No, the empire benefitted India and the east even if it did involve slaves. If we want to play it like that then let's demand a billion from Germany for our dead soliders, let's demand the Japenses give us money for all the soliders they tortured. We are in the 21st century now, not the 20th. Britain cannot afford to save every child and what about people HERE?

[24]

£500m of which he said would be spent on health and education.

Ha Ha, he wants to try working on the health and education in England. Imagine what could be done with £500m in the NHS. That man is insane. Just watched him on Primeministers Questions, Cameron was making him sweat it was funny :]

[Jordy]

Ha Ha, he wants to try working on the health and education in England. Imagine what could be done with £500m in the NHS. That man is insane. Just watched him on Primeministers Questions, Cameron was making him sweat it was funny :]I think they've just about gave as much as they can to Education and Health Care over the past few years, money won't solve the issue more and money doesn't solve anything. They need to sort out it's policies and how the money's spent now, not just money.

[24]

You know that we have it good here compared to the developing world.
Britain was an empire that treated these countries poorly and took vast resources & riches from them in days gone by. I think it is only fair that our government helps out countries in dire need. 47% of the children in India are malnourished and they have probably spent more bailing out Northern Rock.


It may sound harsh (apologies if it does), but as far as im concerned, aslong as there are still homeless people on the streets of Britain, people suffering from cancer, families struggling to make ends meet etc. in this country, then thats where our money should be going, not anywhere else.


I think they've just about gave as much as they can to Education and Health Care over the past few years, money won't solve the issue more and money doesn't solve anything. They need to sort out it's policies and how the money's spent now, not just money.

I agree they do need to rethink their policies, but i do believe that money is more or less part of everything in this world today. But like you said its just knowing where to put it.

[Digital]

Ive said this before but i feel like saying it again :| England sucks! I wish i could move to another country that doesn't suck as bad as this ;'\

I think the little freak should take a look at the country he should be running atm the sort it out first....

[PaintYourTarget]

Let's invest £825million into a growing country, this means they'll boost industry and have more products to trade with us. We can sell them the items they need to build their country to our standard and they'll give us money and goods in return. Give it a while and we'll have our money back.

[Jordy]

Just why oh why did we get rid of that magnificent empire of ours? It used to be the other way round when we used to steal all the Indians gold... I guess you could say it's stealing, but we where first to exploit them and we should be proud of that :P

[-:Undertaker:-]

Let's invest £825million into a growing country, this means they'll boost industry and have more products to trade with us. We can sell them the items they need to build their country to our standard and they'll give us money and goods in return. Give it a while and we'll have our money back.

In 10/20 years when they are superpowers, they will not look back at 2008 and say 'oh the British gave us £825 Million so let's cut deals with them' - They will sell to the country with highest offer for the products avalible.