Now please don’t shoot me but what are your opinions about the British PM promising a staggering £605m to iad Pakistan’s poorest schools?
Now I am all for every child having a decent education as it is their fundamental right but it really gets my goat when this country, while having its own financial worries,a huge national debt, recessions etc will rather pay out to help other countries while its own is suffering. I really think the UK should get its priorities straight. Here, my daughters school missed out on a leaking roof and their local council could not afford to have it repaired. There are so many cuts being made here, left, right and centre!
David Cameron has taken a calculated and expensive diplomatic gamble by agreeing to put his faith in the Pakistani security services to help Britain leave Afghanistan, in the hope of preventing the export of terrorism to Britain.
promising is one thing and sending a cheque yet another thing...he got emotional i guess and promised Zardari, who is grinning ear to ear to see his whatever%, a whopping 605 million pounds [my keyboard doesn't have a Pound key :(]. He still has to get the approval from the Parliament which will prolly not approve that much. agree?
No, he didn’t get emotional (he’s not a Pakistani or Indian remember).
"On a visit to Islamabad, Cameron promised £650m in aid to fund 4 million school places, 90,000 teachers, and refurbishment of 8,000 schools, arguing that education is the best antidote to terror. Pakistan is now the largest beneficiary of UK aid.
He defended the size of the projected aid package, saying he would “struggle to find an example of a country” whose progress and success were more in Britain’s national interest than were those of Pakistan.
But, unusually, he challenged Pakistan by pointing out that it currently spends only 1.5% of national income on education, and has one of the lowest tax revenues, relative to GDP, of any country in the world.
“You are not raising the resources necessary to pay for things that a modern state and people require,” he said. “Too few people pay tax. Too many of your richest people are getting away without paying much tax at all. And that’s not fair.” British officials indicated that they had asked the Pakistan military as diplomatically as possible when it planned to enter North Waziristan, the tribal heartland and sanctuary from which many terrorist groups operate.
During his one-day visit, Cameron offered the president unprecedented intelligence co-operation and agreed to set up a joint “centre of excellence” in Pakistan to exchange knowledge on improvised explosive devices."
I wish for once our government pay heed to what Cameron said about elite paying more taxes.
While I have some reservations about this IF this money goes to the people that need it I have no problems. However most of the money will probably dissapear into a black hole, and bhutto + co will walk away with a few shiny new cars.
