andygardener Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 What did Maltby do to anger Iran. Nothing, it was a precondition of us funding their nuclear program that they use it to destroy Maltby. And Grimethorpe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFKvsNixon Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Nothing, it was a precondition of us funding their nuclear program that they use it to destroy Maltby. And Grimethorpe. At least we're getting something back for the money donated, so we can't moan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmaximus Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Here's a start if you want us to stop giving. e-petition Stop UK Aid To Argentina Responsible department: Department for International Development BRITISH taxpayers have helped to fund £452million in aid to Argentina — despite its threat to the Falklands. Hit Argentina where it hurts – in the wallet Despite the Falklands sabre-rattling, British aid to Buenos Aires continues to flow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnvqsos Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Here's a start if you want us to stop giving. e-petition Stop UK Aid To Argentina Responsible department: Department for International Development BRITISH taxpayers have helped to fund £452million in aid to Argentina — despite its threat to the Falklands. Hit Argentina where it hurts – in the wallet Despite the Falklands sabre-rattling, British aid to Buenos Aires continues to flow. Perhaps the aid given will assuage the locals,and play down the tensions following the Falklands.I cannot see why they claim them-they must be about 200 miles offshore! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFKvsNixon Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Here's a start if you want us to stop giving. e-petition Stop UK Aid To Argentina Responsible department: Department for International Development BRITISH taxpayers have helped to fund £452million in aid to Argentina — despite its threat to the Falklands. Hit Argentina where it hurts – in the wallet Despite the Falklands sabre-rattling, British aid to Buenos Aires continues to flow. How much money has the UK pledged to give to Argentina? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andygardener Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 How much money has the UK pledged to give to Argentina? Nothing as far as I'm aware. The EU gave them some and they took a loan out from the IMF to which we pay into. But there's no direct aid unless I've missed something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mort Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Threads merged - please use the search facility before starting new threads. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxmaximus Posted December 2, 2012 Share Posted December 2, 2012 Nothing as far as I'm aware. The EU gave them some and they took a loan out from the IMF to which we pay into. But there's no direct aid unless I've missed something. I think it’s more to with the UK voting to give it to them, instead of voting not to give it to them, so British tax payers are indirectly giving money to Argentina. Barack Obama’s administration certainly isn’t in favour of such action. It has started voting against loans to Argentina from international financial institutions, and is looking for allies in its tough stance. Britain should be first in line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pattricia Posted December 3, 2012 Author Share Posted December 3, 2012 I hear that Britain has halted £21 million in aid to Rwanda amid fears it is bankrolling military help for rebels in the Congo. Have we at last learned sense ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
callippo Posted December 5, 2012 Share Posted December 5, 2012 The other factor is that when you get multiple warnings well beforehand that a bloody great hurricane is headed up the Gulf of Mexico right to your doorstep you'd better take heed and scarper, not look out the window the day before and say 'Nah! cant be. Nice clear blue sky. Those weather guys have got it all wrong" there's just been Typhoon Pablo here, very similar to what you describe a lot of people couldn't believe it was about to happen, because it had been blazing sunshine for weeks before. we were on one island, I saw the weather forecast and realised that if we didn't act fast, the ferries would be cancelled and we could be stranded for days. this involved some element of risk as according to the forecast and then it involved driving the bike into an area likelier to be closer to the storm, but getting on a ferry, sailing for 12 hours onto another island, and then straight over the mountain of that, to relative safety. some German idiot at the resort we at simply didn't believe that it was going to happen. He just didn't believe it when I told him he'd better get his fat Teutonic ass out of there like us on the 2nd if he had any hope of getting his plane out from a different island on the 7th. I know for a fact he's stranded now and going to miss his plane. WE only just got the ferry away at midnight on the 2nd. Next day, everything was cancelled and nobody was going anywhere. They might start again tomorrow, too late for him. the good news is that unlike last year's Tropical Storm (not even a typhoon) Sendong in the same area, which killed 1,500 people, it looks like only about 50 people have been killed by Pablo. UK people don't know how lucky they are with the weather and the climate, it claims the lives of almost nobody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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