Giving away money to fund corruption at home and abroad

The British Overseas aid transfer of tax payers money to distort over seas economies is at last being called into question.

Many of us knew about the corruption it caused in countries where it was used - including space and nuclear powers.

What we had been less aware of is how its all run to fund the careers of those people handing it out. The fat consultancies, the power trippers who like to play Santa Claus 24/7 with other peoples money. And of course the Tory modernisers who see blowing billions as likely to pick up a few votes from deeply confused and gullible Guardian readers in some marginal constituency - or perhaps just prefer being able to deploy a few facts at dinner parties when fending of the ranks of champagne socialists.

It has to stop.

But boy how they squeal as the light is shone upon the masters of aid. Just heard one such appologist on Radio 4 's Today. They'll be a lot ore to come.

I hope Justine Greening is the woman many of us think she is and will cull these parasites.

National Identity Scheme has no business case, government admits !!!!!

Ian Grant of Computer weekly reports:

The government has, for the first time, admitted publicly that it cannot justify its controversial £5.4bn National Identity Scheme in financial terms.

The admission came from James Hall, chief executive of the Identity & Passport Service, in a response to the report from the scheme's external watchdog, the Independent Scheme Assurance Panel, published this week.

Hall said, "Many of these benefits [of the NIS] may be hard to quantify and potentially harder to articulate in financial terms within the scheme business case."

Full article here ...

Its a balls-up, its Labour, because its other peoples money ! They really think the government has its own money not ours - and they waste it on their own pet schemes and supporting their favoured projects and organisations.

Roll on the general election !

Whats a billion pounds to Gordon Brown ?

The answer is nothing at all ! He knows he's spending our money - not his.

So the EU is to cost the UK over £4 Billion this year instead of the Brown advertised £3.3 Billion.

See this from the Telegraph article by James Kirkup ( full article here ):

The figures also show that Britain will make even larger net payments to the EU in the coming years. In 2008-09, the net payment will be worth £6.1 billion. In 2009-10, it will be £6.4 billion.

The rises are the result of a 2005 agreement by Tony Blair - with Gordon Brown's backing - to a staged series of cuts in the rebate, which was won by Margaret Thatcher in 1984.

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Mark Francois, the shadow Europe minister, said that Mr Brown is failing to defend British interests. "These figures show how Britain is paying more and more to the EU while our taxes are going up and our public finances are in a mess," he said.

"We can now see just how damaging Gordon Brown's cave-in was when he gave away £7 billion of Britain's rebate in return for nothing at all."

This was the cost of allowing Blair and Brown to be good European citizens and cave into the French a few years ago.

Personally I think its close to treason.