Yet another waste from this government

http://scatts.wordpress.com/2009/04/...-of-auschwitz/

Gordon Brown has donated £100 million of our tax money to Auschwitz, while his country is battling a deep recession he has put us into, his country is in danger of a pandemic sweeping across its cities and meanwhile people are dying because the NHS apparently doesn't have enough money for life saving drugs.

In a way, with such poor management we deserve to go bankrupt, because if Gordon Brown was incharge of a business it would of closed many many years ago.

A disgraceful waste; yet again.

Auschwitz... as in the Concentration Camp from WW2? :S

Correct, yes. :)

But.. why would that place need 100million pounds? :S

At the moment it is in decline, but I don't see why Germany/Israel don't pay for it, and why should we pay for it anyway, we're heavily in debt, about to battle a pandemic and people are dying in our country because the NHS cannot afford life saving drugs for them yet Gordon Brown feels in his need to just give £100 million to a museam based in Europe, which we didn't even build.

I don't see anything wrong with it, it's part of world history..

He ran this country as a business for nearly ten years as chancellor... and now we're bankrupt... hmmm.

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Originally Posted by Hiro

I don't see anything wrong with it, it's part of world history..

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World history which concerns Germany, Poland, Israel and mainland Europe more so than it concerns us, why should we donate £100 million we don't even have while we're facing the worst national debt in Europe and while people are being denied life saving drugs on the NHS because apparently we can't afford the drugs for them, yet we can just give £100 million to Auschwitz?

As for going bankrupt, a country can't be allowed to go bankrupt as the IMF is a last resort, but you know what I mean, if he ran a shop it wouldn't last a week, nevermind 10 years.

I agree that it's important. But I think £100million is a bit much, though it does neglect to say over what period of time this £100million will be spend. Over 20years, it works out to be £5million/yr, which doesn't seem nearly as much.

Though I think we should cut our aid abroad in some places in africa and asia, where frankly, the area just simply isn't getting better. Also, bring our troops home from afghanistan. It's costing us so much money and all that results from our money is british and afghan blood is splilt. We have problems to solve at home.

I agree with Undertaker on this one considering we are losing so much money at the moment and we're having to deal with this swine flu issue I think the donation was not a sensible idea but hey it would only happen to Gordon Brown...

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£100 million... surely a museum doesn't take that much to maintain.

It does seem like a waste. I very much doubt other countries are contributing to the site. If they are, then that's well over a billion £ going towards restoring something that can't be that heavily deteriorated. I can see why people don't want to vote tories. If there's an option to vote someone new to be head of the Labour party, then maybe something will clear up. But my view on it is, they may aswell let ITV1 take the voting, it is just going to be a pointless popularity vote.

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Originally Posted by Apeel

£100 million... surely a museum doesn't take that much to maintain.

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that's what i'm thinking.:S

I agree with what people have said about we being in a recession and him flinging £100m on this. If we wasn't in the current situation then I wouldn't mind as much but its silly to do it now.

Gordon Brown hasn't given anything yet, and he's not giving the £100 million. The article says that Brown hasn't specified how much he's giving.

That site is completely biased, according to other articles, Brown hasn't even considered giving any of our money--just that he supports the cause.

You've twisted the whole thing.

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Originally Posted by Roboevil

Gordon Brown hasn't given anything yet, and he's not giving the £100 million. The article says that Brown hasn't specified how much he's giving.

That site is completely biased, according to other articles, Brown hasn't even considered giving any of our money--just that he supports the cause.

You've twisted the whole thing.

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It has been all over Teletext and also was on BBC and Sky News the other day. I haven't twisted anything, just like last year it was widely reported that Gordon Brown donated £825 million to India and £5 million to the Peoples Republic of China.

Its in his nature to be economically incompetant, thats why he sold most of our gold when it was at a 20 year low, oh and he also alerted world gold markets a week before that he was going to sell, which allowed the price to go under even more so than it was at the time.

LOl you always go on about that gold, also the other person i think torries? seems like posh snoob and probley would only look after rich people and tbh, theres not much he can do when every other country is in a recision

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Originally Posted by mwah

LOl you always go on about that gold, also the other person i think torries? seems like posh snoob and probley would only look after rich people and tbh, theres not much he can do when every other country is in a recision

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Well people say Gordon Brown was an economic hero when he was the opposite, its complete rubbish. As for the tories, maybe that was the case one hundred years ago, but thats just an argument that is continued to this day by the Labour Party and others to continue the socialist cause, when socialism really means the poor end up poorer.

We're trying to start it up again, didn't you hear?

Man you ***** about your government so much. =/

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Man you ***** about your government so much. =/

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Mainly because its incompetant and has made us bankrupt again, Austrialia may have its problems but at least your in complete control of your immigration and you maintain your independance in matters ranging from political unions to the Iraq war.

A government which is doing a bad job doesn't deserve chances, it needs to be voted out as soon as possible, as will happen in 2010.

I don't get why the UK pay millions to the EU everyday. What exactly does the EU do other than demolish nationality?

I would like a government run by people who enjoy it, not for money and benefits which appears to be the main reason. Otherwise, why would it take months to get stuff sorted? A proper leader would get important things done ASAP, not faff around smiling (and I use that term loosely).