Britain £1billion in aid to India, 'a peanut in our total development expenditure'.

[CelticViking]

Britain will continue to lavish more than £1billion in aid to India while making deep cuts to services at home despite India deriding the UK contribution, Downing Street said today.
In a deeply embarrassing row for the British government India's Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee's said that he no longer wants or needs the UK's money, which he described as 'a peanut in our total development expenditure'.
A leaked memo dating from 2010 has also emerged in which India's then foreign minister Nirupama Rao suggested India should not accept any further aid from Britain's Department for International Development because of the 'negative publicity of Indian poverty promoted by DFID'.

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[TheBorrebyViking]

Yes, because making everyone in the world "equal" won't make us all "unequal" again due to the base changing. India can make themselves better if they want.

[Thraex]

Care to throw some money our way, Britain?

[The Lawspeaker]

Talk about wasting good money...

[Nglund]

Either they are downright stupid or they're having huge problems behind the scenes.

[dralos]

this is retarded,isn't the indian economy booming LOL
i have said to everyone,that europe is still trillion times better then asia or any other country excluding usa,australia and canada and japan bcs their equal.
i wish those people who say asia is booming would see this and see that without europe asia is nothing

[Peasant]

this is retarded,isn't the indian economy booming LOL

But think of the starving wog childrennnnsssssss they can't be bothered to help themselves.

i have said to everyone,that europe is still trillion times better then asia or any other country excluding usa,australia and canada and japan bcs their equal.

Where is this utopia you speak of? :S

[dralos]

But think of the starving wog childrennnnsssssss they can't be bothered to help themselves.



Where is this utopia you speak of? :S

where you're living now

[Mordid]

I vill tank you preez to not fill my head with your Pranab Mukherjee you are velcum.

[Magyar the Conqueror]

Where is Inquiring Mind with his "India is the new world power and economy hub" posts?

If Britain was to turn off the money tap, I dont know what the Indians would do.

I mean FFS India already has nuclear weapons, a Nuclear Power is a country that does not need any money to be poured into it, especially if its gypsies who will probably eat most of the money anyway.