Children in Need day

[apc2010]

...if I want to have a big argument I'll go elsewhere for it.

Blood and sands! now there's a place for pointless and neverending arguments. They've even got a religion section 

I avoid the religious section like the plague

But if you have a strong interest in a topic it's a good place to see views tested and discover your going in position is likely too simplistic.  But it does get brutal sometimes, not for those easy to tears.

But do they let immigrants join.......   or is it for people who really count....

[Steve]

    

There are several foreign born there.  BTW it's easy to get banned there and there are few laughs

[apc2010]

   

There are several foreign born there.  BTW it's easy to get banned there and there are few laughs

I won't bother then ......I seem to get banned a lot........

[Steve]

I got banned for a week for calling one of the mods "Radio Assad" 

[Barman]

£2bn of UK aid to help Third World go green

Britain yesterday pledged almost £2 billion in “climate aid” to help finance foreign projects including wind turbines in Africa and greener cattle farming in Colombia.

Each household will contribute £70 to schemes to tackle climate change in developing countries before March 2015, under plans championed by Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary.

Just another few % misspent....

[Nick]

daveye@parliament.uk   

[Barman]

daveye@parliament.uk   

 

[Steve]

£2bn of UK aid to help Third World go green

Britain yesterday pledged almost £2 billion in “climate aid” to help finance foreign projects including wind turbines in Africa and greener cattle farming in Colombia.

Each household will contribute £70 to schemes to tackle climate change in developing countries before March 2015, under plans championed by Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary.

Just another few % misspent....

One of Gordon Brown's promises that we have either honour or look like complete international shits -and that might ultimately cost us far far more.  I'd wager there's no new money here.

An interesting read here http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/18/wealthy-nations-promised-billions-to-help-the-poor-adapt-to-climate-change-where-did-it-go/

You want to see where the big spend is then this is a good place to start

http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/total_spending_2012UKbn

£1.8B over several years is less than 0.1%.  When you think about it 0.1% here, 0.1% there and pretty soon you're still not getting to grips with the big problem

I see that total tosser Greg Barker (aka my MP) hasn't worked out yet that climate change action is so 2005.

[Barman]

£2bn of UK aid to help Third World go green

Britain yesterday pledged almost £2 billion in “climate aid” to help finance foreign projects including wind turbines in Africa and greener cattle farming in Colombia.

Each household will contribute £70 to schemes to tackle climate change in developing countries before March 2015, under plans championed by Ed Davey, the Liberal Democrat Energy Secretary.

Just another few % misspent....

One of Gordon Brown's promises that we have either honour or look like complete international shits -and that might ultimately cost us far far more.  I'd wager there's no new money here.

An interesting read here http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/11/18/wealthy-nations-promised-billions-to-help-the-poor-adapt-to-climate-change-where-did-it-go/

You want to see where the big spend is then this is a good place to start

http://www.ukpublicspending.co.uk/total_spending_2012UKbn

£1.8B over several years is less than 0.1%.  When you think about it 0.1% here, 0.1% there and pretty soon you're still not getting to grips with the big problem

I see that total tosser Greg Barker (aka my MP) hasn't worked out yet that climate change action is so 2005.

So (without wishing to labour my initial point), you think it is fine to piss away a couple of billion so we don't look like shits while hard pressed taxpayers in the UK are begged for £50m to prevent there being Children in Need in the UK...?

Try as I might, I can't understand your support of this disgusting waste while parts of the UK population genuinely suffer through lack of funds....  It doesn't matter if it is .1%, 10% or .00000001%, it is still two billion quid that it will take CIN years and years to raise... 

And lets not forget, no fecker in the UK has ever voted for this or was ever asked about it....

[Steve]

So just where did I say it was "fine to piss away a couple of billion"?

Oh look I didn't. 

As for "no fecker in the UK has ever voted for this or was ever asked about it" well yes they did.  Some of us actually read the manifestos the voters voted on.

[Barman]

So just where did I say it was "fine to piss away a couple of billion"?

Oh look I didn't. 

As for "no fecker in the UK has ever voted for this or was ever asked about it" well yes they did.  Some of us actually read the manifestos the voters voted on.

I must have misunderstood your comments then... You certainly seem to think it is fine to piss away billions providing the %age of overall spending is small...

And I missed the manifesto that pledged to give away billions on pointless overseas green schemes in preference to helping the needy at home...

[Steve]

I reckon Google will find you the 2005 NuLab manifesto. 

They promised this and that to everyone including IIRC massive increases in foreign aid and aiming much of it at so called climate change.

And guess who was voted in?   NuLab.   Not with any help from me.

[Barman]

I reckon Google will find you the 2005 NuLab manifesto. 

They promised this and that to everyone including IIRC massive increases in foreign aid and aiming much of it at so called climate change.

And guess who was voted in?   NuLab.   Not with any help from me.

I think you'll find it is 2013 and they are no longer in power.... 

[Steve]

and the promise was made in 2009 when they were

[Barman]

and the promise was made in 2009 when they were

And now they aren't....