It is of course preposterous that we are aiding, as in overseas aiding, Nigeria's active aspiration to launch a rocket into space by 2028.
The Statute Law should specify
that the United Kingdom's aid to any given country be reduced by the
exact cost of any space programme, or of any nuclear weapons programme, or
of any nuclear submarine programme, or of any foreign aid budget of that country's own
(we fund India's foreign aid budget precisely).
The alternative would be to cede the ground to the likes of Godfrey Bloom, who is an embarrassment even to his own party.
The alternative would be to cede the ground to the likes of Godfrey Bloom, who is an embarrassment even to his own party.
Ed Miliband and Jon Cruddas, over to you.
God, I wish you were in Parliament.
ReplyDeleteI especially wish you were deputy Leader of the Labour Party, proposing things like this as backbench amendments while following through with your plan for recruiting local anti-cuts candidates to fight every seat.
'Bongo bongo land' notwithstanding, Bloom is obviously far closer to public opinion on foreign aid than Gordon 'Bitish jobs for British workers' Brown (haha) Nick 'immigrant amnesty' Clegg, or 'Pantomime Dame' Bryant and his Next and Tesco fiasco.
ReplyDeleteCompared to that lot, Bloom is a genius.
Tell that to Nigel Farage, who is now desperate to be rid of him.
ReplyDeleteHow did he ever end up as an MEP for Yorkshire in the first place?
How did Tony Blair and Gordon Brown ever end up as our Prime Ministers in the first place, would be a better question.
ReplyDeleteNo, it wouldn't. We know the answer to that one.
ReplyDeleteHas UKIP already ranked its candidates for next year? I expect so. Or else would just be out.
Low praise, indeed, from the party in which the rising star is Neil Hamilton.
But we don't know the answer-and, if we do, it has unsettling implications for those of us who thought universal suffrage democracy was a good idea.
ReplyDeleteIf that's the Government it produces (by a landslide on two occasions) then can it really be so?
Labour is in the unique position of having a leader who has already bored everyone to death before anyone even noticed him.