A PROMISE TO THE POOREST PEOPLE IN THE WORLD

In the recent debate in the House of Commons about the cut in foreign aid (the Government won the vote), Theresa May said:

‘The Government went on to say that investing that 0.7% was at the heart of the vision of the Government’s integrated review for the UK: “as an active, internationalist, problem-solving and burden-sharing nation”. Where is that vision now, as the Government turn their back on some of the poorest in the world? With GNI falling, our funding for aid was falling in any case. To reduce it from 0.7% to 0.5% is a double blow. This is not about palaces for dictators and vanity projects; it is about what cuts to funding mean: fewer girls will be educated, more girls and boys will become slaves, more children will go hungry and more of the poorest people in the world will die.’

May concluded her speech:

‘I have been in this House for nearly a quarter of a century. During that time, I have never voted against a three-line Whip from my party. As Prime Minister, I suffered at the hands of rebels. I know what it is like to see party colleagues voting against their Government. We made a promise to the poorest people in the world. The Government have broken that promise. This motion means that promise may be broken for years to come. With deep regret, I will vote against the motion today.’

This is the same Theresa May, who as Home Secretary allowed illegal immigrants to flood into the UK and allowed people smugglers to control the UK’s borders; who, both as Home Secretary and Prime Minister, did so very little to combat the growing Muslim terrorist threat and the continuing grooming, rape and gang rape of English children; and who, as Prime Minister agreed to hand over so much money to the EU in a totally unnecessary Withdrawal Agreement – the UK is still paying the EU around £10 billion per annum.

Theresa May is an ardent globalist who did so much to undermine a genuine Brexit. Nowhere in her recent speech in the House of Commons regarding foreign aid does she take account of English interests (it is English taxpayers who have to pay all these bills). She is solely concerned about her vision of giving other people’s away in foreign aid.

The monies collected in taxes do not belong to the government, to spend as they wish. Such monies belong to the taxpayers, who expect those taxes to be spent on the purposes to which they were raised. Neither those taxes, nor the amount that can be printed and borrowed, are unlimited.

No UK government should be making ‘a promise to the poorest people in the world’. The government is accountable to the parliament, and parliament to voters. The government is supposed to be governing in the interests of voters, not in the interests of a number of foreign vested interests.

It is for the various governments of the Third World to govern their countries. That is not the UK’s responsibility. The British Empire no longer exists.

Contrary to what Theresa May said, it is ‘about palaces for dictators and vanity projects’ and far worse (eg see here).