Cuts in the UK’s aid to Sierra Leone and Liberia may have played a part in the rapid spread of Ebola, according to MPs.
The international development select committee says Britain’s reduced funding to the west African countries could have helped compromise their health systems, which have disintegrated in the face of the epidemic, exacting a heavy death toll on health workers as well as patients.
We shouldn’t have been giving them any aid. Their healthcare systems are their responsibility, not ours. If they screwed up, that is their fault, not ours. We do not have responsibility for what goes on in other countries and we should not be using taxpayers’ money to fund them. Not one penny.
Absolutely spot on LR UK money should not be going to ANY of these countries.
This country fought and struggled through hundreds of years of history to get to the mess we currently have, yet all these 3rd world places want to skip the hard graft and have everything given to them by others.
Thats why it’s called development = growth; progress, a significant consequence or event, but these countries want to skip the hard work and thats not development until they do it for themselves these places will never stand on their own two feet because they are not learning to manage within their means.
Is there anything the bloody Brit bottomless moneypit taxpayer isn’t responsible for or expected to pay for.
What happened to taking responsibility, in your own household if your income is £30k and you piss £50k’s worth of spending up the wall, it’s going to end in tears, is that any different to a nation doing the same.
Any one looked at the UK deficit recently, elephant in the room…the only real mention of that during the conferences was Mark Reckless’ speech to the UKIP conference.
How the hell did these extravagant (with other people’s money) fools get millions of people to vote for them, have they been putting something in the water for the past 20 years?
ye Gods, no wonder my alcohol intake isn’t improving.
“…no wonder my alcohol intake isn’t improving…”
If it’s increasing, that could be said to be improving… 😉
Here’s an idea: Let’s wait until we don’t have a deficit to think about aid…
Here’s an idea: let us propose to spend 1% of any budget surplus we happen to have on international development. Oh look, we’re running a deficit; that’s the International Development budget set to zero then…
Hang on. Aren’t Sierra Leone and Liberia ‘failed states’? Despite all the aid money.
Current listed spend for Liberia is roughly GBP 80 Million (Post completion and budgeted) Sierra Leone is supposed to have ‘recovered’ and therefore only down for GBP 1.5 Million 2014-5.