United Kingdom still giving aid [£1bn+] to economic powerhouse India

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Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-

If you want to help with industry then you lower taxes here and get investors and entrepreneurs to go and invest in India, the government/state cannot invest - they disguise freebies such as this as 'investment' - remember Labour when they 'invested' in Public services (which amounted to a £7.9tn debt). Every penny the government takes out of the real economy (and away from private business) to give away aid such as this, we only set ourselves back.

I agree pointless aid should be scrapped. Some aid we give I disagree with, and in a sense I'm going to contradict myself - but if aid helps future business prospects, I don't mind. Although I think the AMOUNT we give is too much.