Aid to Somalia?

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GreengagePie · 12/02/2025 12:30

We have pensioners losing their winter fuel allowance, veterans rough sleeping, NHS collapsing, economy tanking and now Labour are sending money to Somalia.
£25million in next 5 years for "Green Urban Growth" (whatever that is).

These are the guys guilty of Piracy on the High Seas!

According to the International Maritime Bureau, a piracy reporting centre based in Malaysia, some 54 crew members and passengers have been killed worldwide since 2006.
The economic losses are also enormous.

AIBU in thinking this isn't exactly a priority?

devtracker.fcdo.gov.uk/programme/GB-GOV-1-300797/summary#

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Atissues · 12/02/2025 12:50

I agree. We need to look at exactly what our tax money is spent on. Audits are common place in the public sector.

If we cannot afford to fix schools, roads and give the elderly on 15k a year help towards heating we are far too poor to help other countries.

I do also wonder how many rich people are getting money via these aid schemes!

Chuchoter · 12/02/2025 12:47

Foreign aid is taking money from poor people in rich countries and giving it to rich people in poor countries.

username299 · 12/02/2025 12:42

I agree. Fuck everyone else. Fuck asylum seekers. Fuck the starving. Fuck the environment. Fuck the disabled. Fuck everyone.

Close the borders.

Ablondiebutagoody · 12/02/2025 12:40

Not sure that the piracy connection is relevant but I agree that it is a total waste of taxpayers money.

Labour need to be very careful here. On the back of Trump and USAID, people will be crawling all over this kind of stuff before the next election.

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