21-01-2008, 05:56 PM
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 Labour: No money for public services employees (except MPs) - but gives £825 million
Whilst public service workers, such as nurses and police, have to make do with an in-line-with-inflation pay increase, it has been quietly announced that Gordon Brown is to provide India with “aid” worth £825 million over the next three years. We are further informed that whilst many British schools are dilapidated and permanently short of funding, that some £500 million of Brown’s largesse will be directed at improving education in India’s eastern state of Bihar!
According to media reports Brown is on record as claiming that the British taxpayers’ money would be used to train 300,000 new teachers and build thousands of new classrooms, meaning 4 million more Indian children would receive an education. This is the “needy” India, of course, that is already the beneficiary of hundreds of thousands of off-shored British jobs, which maintains a hugely expensive nuclear weapons programme and employs one of the largest armies on the face of the planet! According to a spokesperson from the charity Save the Children, the British aid package must reach India’s excluded children; “There is a real need to examine how children are looked at in a country that allocates less than 5% of its GDP to children, despite the fact they make up almost 40% of the population.” We can only wonder how much of OUR £500 million children’s aid budget will end up being siphoned off to help fund India’s military pretensions or into private bank accounts? Of the remaining £300 million, it is thought the majority will be earmarked to improve India’s public health programme – this at a time when British NHS trusts are desperate for additional funding to make ends meet! Finally, s snippet from The Times of India, puts all this into perspective, we quote: “Sources here said it was significant that Brown had chosen India to be his platform for airing his policies, particularly, given how strongly India itself believes the global high table needs more room. The economic relationship with the UK is swimming along, with Tata hogging the headlines with its bid for Jaguar. India is now the second largest investor (from Asia) in the UK, so there’s really little that needs tinkering with in the bilateral relationship.” The Raj has clearly come home to roost! Source
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