UK Aid: View from the street
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ต.ค. 2024
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This short video explores the views about overseas aid from people on the street in the UK: from their initial impressions to reactions about revealing facts and figures. Find out more at www.one.org
This should have views in millions
THESE ARE ALL ACTORS.
Lets not lose sight of the fact that 0.7% of our GDP is £12 billion & the last time I looked the country that gets the most is Pakistan who are a nuclear superpower. I'd like to know why we're giving money to a country who spends money on nuclear weapons while 40% of its population live in acute poverty.
Excellent!
The UK's bill for foreign aid is £16,000,000,000 per year.
There are 20,900,000 working families in the UK.
Provision of foreign aid costs the average working UK household in excess of £765.00 per year.
Many of the countries receiving aid have their own space programs and nuclear weapons. Others have no significant historical connection to the UK.
Often, the money isn't spent on some community infrastructure project, health project or education initiative - it's simply doled out in envelopes or via a pre-paid debit card, as it is in Pakistan.
Other times, UK aid is intercepted by tyrants and warlords (With the full knowledge of DfID) and used to further oppress the very people that it was intended to help.
Still think foreign aid is a good idea?
Why not make it 1%, given that such amazing things can be done on such a small percentage of our income...
£14 billion a year of which 29% goes to the UN the rest is spent on vaccines and GM crops. The receiving countries have a bi-laterial agreement to spend the money on big pharmaceutical companies and Monsanto.
No aid relations rather trade relations. Majority of aid goes to evangelism and self serving issues. India doesn't need that "AID". Thank you UK but no thank you.
Sorry , but this seems like propaganda to fool stupid people to me. At no point were any of these figures linked directly to the UK's foreign aid budget with the exception of the % we send. In fact the interviewer was very careful to state in general terms the effect of foreign aid. Let's see the numbers and then decide before we fork over 17 billion dollars a year!!!
0.7%, put in context to what the rest of the developed world spends, the US gives 0.17%, Italy gives 0.21%, Japan gives 0.22%, Russia gives 0.06%. Thats well over $20 billion dollars, money which could be spent on the struggling national health service, overcrowded schools, reducing homelessness....
What a load of shit. The percentage is irrelevant!! What's relevant is how much is going in foreign aid
2 aspects; some people never know and surprise of the outcome of the fund spent and yeah. do it . continue!! some people never know and surprise of the outcome . and yeah.. still that small fund is spent, not big fund anyway so.. yeah.. do it continue.. I would love to hear that people really understand that the one who has more FEEL happy and GIVE some out, not just thinking that it is small fund, do it!. Please, because they need and you can help, ... understand and help, not just throw money!
.7% of gdp is a lot of money, especially when it is going to countries like india who can finance a nuclear arsenal, and who have told us they dont want it.
Nice to hear views. Though it would help more if these rich (or capable) countries act to put curb on sale/supply of arms n ammunition to rebel groups in poor nations so that this aid-money is not spent on arms by govts there. Most arms mfg. cos. are in rich countries, so the govt there can do (if they wish).
Thanks for the AID,U.K
Who wants your peanuts????
When the country is running a budget defecit, it makes no sesnse to give money away. If you were borrowing money on a credit card to give away people would call you an idiot.
It's just 0.7 percentage.
That figure is for combined world aid not just what the UK gives.
Looted money give in charity 😂😂😂
Queen has gone mad.
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We should send billions of birth control pills not food,
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The aid to Indian will be cut of as they have a growing economy with its own space program, they will need to get rid of the poverty by themselves as they have the money to do so
Just remember the fact that you are living on that money which your ancestors looted from us for nearly 200 years...
India don't need your aid which looter Britishers had looted from India. If you ask for some aid we will surely provide to you and your country
Lol, your peanuts aid isn't required... You live in a country built with our tressure which was looted by your fuckin ancestors
India is already world's largest vaccines producer.
"We don't need your peanuts"
give the money to charities not to governments where it might not go to where it is needed
70%-75% of foreign aid spending is spent on legitimate purposes.
1000,s of people are committing suicide in the UK because of austerity measures charity should begin at home, I do not begrudge saving African children but not at the expense of our own poor and needy?
Lol as if your thief country (uk) became rich by hardwork.. Your country is a beggar country that looted the tressures of other countries
I see some nice looking ...,..
£6,000,000,000 goes to Israel, who keep Palestinians oppressed. Palestine was not Britains to give away. The rest get small change. You worry about 'antisemitism' ... we're not all stupid luv.
The UK's combined debt is at over 900% of GDP, which means when interest rates rise and they will rise sooner or later the country will already be bust! The fact is they talk about cuts, but with this level of debt the only realistic way to pay it off is if they scrap public pensions and partially privatise the NHS. Can you imagine a government attempting to do that? Yet they’ve increased the foreign aid budget, soon we might very well need all that foreign aid back!
Are rich really this ignorant about world?
Well, if you borrowed money to feed some starving kids in Africa rather than financing your Mercedes or your iPhone then I'd call you awesome, not an idiot. I think you misunderstand the concept of borrowing. Britain has run virtually no budget surpluses in the past 35 years, you need to brush up on your economics.
Where are white British?
Its stolen money u morans
PROPAGANDA. Do YOU KNOW what is going into your body?...