It is worth reading this piece in today's Mail outlining how some of our foreign aid is spent.
Highlights are:
Rwanda - The President has two private jets – South African-registered Bombardier BD-700 Global Expresses – costing £30million each.
Uganda - Here the President contents himself with just one jet, a 30million top-of-the-range Gulfstream G550. The country is also intending to buy six Russian made fighter planes at a cost of about £500million.
Gabon - The state bought a £85million property in the heart of Paris.
Congo - The President here has a multi-million pound property portfolio in Paris.
And so it goes on, with most Bongo-Bongo land presidents having private aircraft and properties abroad, mainly in Paris.
All the media here are interested in is one short phrase, not the rest of Godfrey Bloom's speech about the waste and misuse of our foreign aid. But, of course, with modern political correctness, if one points out what is happening in these countries, one is immediately declared racist by our self-serving politicians and media, who no doubt are wondering why they, too, should not have such luxuries.
Open Thread
2 hours ago
Even more of interest is that of our approx £12billion overseas aid budget, we have to give £2billion to the EU for them to give it away for us (without even an acknowledgement). They give it away to countries like Iceland - richer than us and at the last count owe us over £2billion from the crash!
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