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Nigeria aid farce (cont.): As UK gives 1bn to nation joining the space race, its corrupt officials allow 2bn of oil to be stolen every year
Nigeria has accepted more than 1billion in UK aid, despite losing twice that sum every year through its corrupt oil industry, it has been revealed The aid may not be going to those who need it most, with some being used to equip the country's navy Tory backbenchers have criticised Prime Minister David Cameron's commitment to increased aid spending
By Steve Doughty, Social Affairs Correspondent PUBLISHED: 00:34, 20 September 2013 | UPDATED: 00:34, 20 September 2013

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Nigeria has accepted more than 1billion in aid from Britain while losing twice that sum every year through corruption in its oil industry, it was revealed yesterday. Some 100,000 barrels of oil a day are being stolen from pipelines, ports and storage tanks with the connivance of politicians, officials and military top brass, says an authoritative report. It also points out that the aid to Nigeria may not be going to those who need it the most. In fact, some of it is being used to equip the countrys navy. The stolen crude oil represents five per cent of all production in oil-rich Nigeria.

Nigeria has accepted m ore than 1billion UK aid, despite losing tw ice that sum every year through corruption in its oil industry. Above, the Total Nigeria onshore oil and gas refinery at Am enam in the delta of the Niger River in Nigeria

The report by the think-tank Chatham House said the proceeds of the theft are then laundered in major financial markets, with the City of London key among them. It warned that the scale of the stolen oil trade threatens the integrity of financial markets and the legitimate oil business.

Nigeria's share of the aid w as questioned last m onth after the Mail disclosed the country's plans to expand its space agency (above)

The report comes at a time of growing controversy over Britains foreign aid budget, which is due to rise to 11billion a year in 2015. Questions over Nigerias share of the aid 1.14 billion over the five years were raised last month after the Mail disclosed the countrys plans to expand its space agency and put an astronaut in space in two years. The inquiry by Chatham House established for almost a century with close links to the Foreign Office throws further doubts over the fate of aid money sent to Nigeria. The report, Nigerias Criminal Crude, said the cash is going to pay for Nigerian naval equipment and training at a time when the countrys maritime forces have conspicuously neglected to attempt to stop shipments of stolen oil. It said foreign oil workers have watched as tankers known to be loaded with illicit cargo have sailed past patrol vessels unmolested. Tory backbenchers have been fiercely critical of David Camerons commitment to increased aid spending. They believe much of the cash amounts to subsidies for rich people in developing countries at the expense of the British poor. The Chatham House report said: Nigerian crude oil is being stolen on an industrial scale. Proceeds are laundered through world financial centres. In Nigeria, politicians, military officers, militants, oil industry

personnel, oil traders and communities profit, as do organised criminal groups.

Som e 100,000 barrels of oil a day are being stolen from pipelines, ports and storage tanks w ith the connivance of officials, says an authoritative report. Above, oil pipelines in Port Harcourt, Nigeria

The greatest victims are ordinary Nigerians. The trade destroys the environment, weakens public institutions, swallows government revenue that could buy public goods, and imposes other social costs. Britain is named as a hotspot where the profits are laundered. The process involves bulk cash smuggling heavy use of middlemen, shell companies and tax havens, bribery of bank officials, cycling cash through legitimate businesses and cash purchases of luxury goods. The reported scale of the stolen oil trade is said to be 100,000 barrels a day, worth more than 6million. That means the illicit industry is worth well over 2billion each year. The Department for International Development, which administers the aid budget, said Britain was working to fight corruption in Nigeria. FROM THE WEB
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Newest Oldest Best rated Worst rated View best 10 Page 1 of 2 12Next Money taken from poor people in a rich country and given to Rich people in a poor country. I didn't know we had 1 BILLION to spare to give to an oil rich country with a space program. REALITY IS STRANGER THAN FICTION> YOU CANNOT MAKE THIS STUFF UP. - Ruckus, over here, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 2:35 Click to rate Report abuse When are these bloody politicians of ours going to stop giving our money away to things like this. Its our money we say we want it for our own Country not everybody else s. This is why we are never going to get our debt paid of. Or get our own Country back on its feet with politicians like we have in Government today. - wind in the willows, Southampton, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 10:37 Click to rate Report abuse 11 billion a year given away in foreign aid, and in the UK thousands in rent arrears and facing eviction due to the bedroom tax to save (?) 500 million. We really have strange Govt policies - Gordon, Glasgow, 20/9/2013 10:35 Click to rate Report abuse Rating 327 Rating 340 Rating 534

Stop aid NOW. . It is only going to corrupt countries and their "crooks" - brendamover, Skegness, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 10:36 Click to rate Report abuse Can't Parliament simply order that convoys of banknotes be shipped directly from the de La Rue printing plant to an incinerator to expedite wastage??? - Dennis, Portland OR, United States, 20/9/2013 3:42 Click to rate Report abuse Good old Cameron, he robs our elderly, our vulnerable and our needy. He cuts our police, our fire fighters and our army. Our A&E departments are in melt-down. He has made many low paid workers rely on food banks in order to survive but he goes on giving away this stolen cash to corrupt countries. What he fails to understand is that there is an election in two years time and while most other budgets have been cut, overseas aid has not only been protected it has increased... 1billion every month we give away whether you like it or not - Richo, Clacton, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 10:28 Click to rate Report abuse As we know this is happening why does the government not stop giving the aid, or is someone closer to home having there pockets lined? - Berlesduna - Essex, London, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 10:19 Click to rate Report abuse When will all you brain dead voting sheep "get it" the likes of the Camerfool, Calamity Clegg and Milipede are all signed up to give away your tax money, only UKIP will put an end to this madness. - nanuk of the north, Morpeth England, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 10:21 Click to rate Report abuse Time to pull the draw bridge up me thinks!!! - Old pit prop, Somewhere up north, Spain, 20/9/2013 10:27 Click to rate Report abuse Stop sending money abroad, even to the EU. - Taxpayer, England remembered, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 10:32 Click to rate Report abuse To be continued.... Rating 205 Rating 206 Rating 225 Rating 237 Rating 240 Rating 258 Rating 313

- Senor T, Los Cabos, 20/9/2013 0:50 Click to rate Report abuse We are a good at getting mugged off by other countries, but our leaders just don't care.. - AverageJoe, Kings Lynn, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 10:21 Click to rate Report abuse It's a magic trick , They take large amounts of public money & give it away then they get some back via business deals usually with company's they are involved with or are very friendly with & some of the money magically makes it way back but ends up in their pocket in a round about kind of way. - Zool, Manchester, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 10:32 Click to rate Report abuse Cameron OUT, UKIP in .... Stop all foreign aid. British money for British people. - Tax Payer, Tyne and Wear, 20/9/2013 4:09 Click to rate Report abuse 1 billion to Nigeria, when our own country is falling apart? I'm DISGUSTED - MrBratt2, Brighton, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 10:09 Click to rate Report abuse Bloody ridiculous. Who would give us foreign aid? We should stop all handouts until this country is sorted out!!!! - Ron, UK, 20/9/2013 4:00 Click to rate Report abuse Unless im reading this atticle wrong surely if they have all this oil then they must be a rich country. so why are we donating all this money to them. - overtherainbow, Kent, 20/9/2013 4:09 Click to rate Report abuse Time to stop ALL aid to ALL countries - charity begins at home - OUR HOME not homes of other nationalities. - Arturo, of England, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 10:05 Click to rate Report abuse Rating 17 Rating 19 Rating 21 Rating 24 Rating 35 Rating 151 Rating 181 Rating 185

And our idiot pm still keeps sending more money.. - Hardy, Anglesey, 20/9/2013 10:00 Click to rate Report abuse Another Billion wasted that could have been put to good use here at home ....... But no, the politicians LOVE to throw away money to make themselves look good, especially when its someone else s hard earned cash !!!!! - Foz, EUSSR Formerly known as UK, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 4:45 Click to rate Report abuse No good speaking to Cameron, he aint listening period! - Cliveb4, Cape Town, 20/9/2013 9:43 Click to rate Report abuse I worked in Nigeria in the 80's and this was happening then.Nigeria is rated as one of the most corrupt nations in the world so this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone even the overpaid fools in DFID. There is no justification in giving aid to Nigeria but do not expect Cameron and his cronies to stop as they don't care what happens to our money, only about being able to boast about the level of aid they have arranged to have stolen from hard working British taxpayers. - exconservativevoter, southport, 20/9/2013 9:41 Click to rate Report abuse who would have guessed? - Susan, Bournemouth, 20/9/2013 4:19 Click to rate Report abuse Call it what it is, its not aid its a bung ! - JimmyH, Hull, 20/9/2013 3:53 Click to rate Report abuse Why do we need to give any aid to foreign countries anyway? Just so politicians can show off to the rest of the world? We are no longer the world superpower we were in Victoria's age, we are a reasonably affluent country on the edge of Europe trying to be a major player on the world stage, when our economy is still in tatters and too reliant on "service " industries. Limited natural resources and limited manufacturing capability means we are the ones who should be receiving aid! - Daveyh, North Wales, 20/9/2013 9:40 Click to rate Report abuse Yet another rich country that aid is sent to by the UK. These countries are rife with corruption and all the aid does, is line Rating 12 Rating 13 Rating 13 Rating 13 Rating 13 Rating 13 Rating 16

the pockets of those in power. - Teeps, Manchester, 20/9/2013 9:34 Click to rate Report abuse Angers me - Ron, UK, 20/9/2013 4:00 Click to rate Report abuse Utter madness! And the principal culprit in giving away our (overtaxed) cash while the electorate suffer austerity is 'Call me Dave'! Roll on 2015, we desperately need a change! - Peter, Sutton, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 9:09 Click to rate Report abuse And Cameron claims we cannot afford to give our children school dinners. What a joke this man is. - wackyman, Plymouth, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 8:33 Click to rate Report abuse 2 billion worth of oil stolen? I suspect most was sold by corrupt officials rather than being stolen. - bavarianpete, Altenau, 20/9/2013 8:58 Click to rate Report abuse Apart from the ANC government officials, it was generally thought to be a good move when the British government gave notice of its plan to discontinue aid to SA in 2015. Coincidentally, the sum of money was just about what it cost the SA taxpayer to upgrade Zuma's personal 'estate'. I trust the recent attempt by ANC cadres to reverse that decision will be treated with the contempt it deserves since it would only be giving support to one of the most corrupt governments on earth. Nigeria clearly falls into the same category. - Longfellow, Durban, 20/9/2013 9:56 Click to rate Report abuse when will the do gooders ever learn - coldwarzone, bourne end, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 9:29 Click to rate Report abuse If you have ever worked in Nigeria you will know it is the most corrupt ineptly run country in the world - even the terrorist group Boko Haran could not do worse. Everything is GRAFT - a bribe payment here a bribe payment there a bribe payment for everything you need from government. Rating 9 Rating 10 Rating 10 Rating 10 Rating 11 Rating 11 Rating 11

- Peter Marton, Middlesbrough, 20/9/2013 8:46 Click to rate Report abuse Stop doing it. - waguitarman, Nottingham, 20/9/2013 9:40 Click to rate Report abuse Dont forget the millions Nigerian scamsters make from online fraud - adamnsu, London, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 9:30 Click to rate Report abuse Nigerians so want our MONIES - adamnsu, London, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 9:30 Click to rate Report abuse "The Department for International Development, which administers the aid budget, said Britain was working to fight corruption in Nigeria". Truth or otherwise, they would have to, wouldn't they. Cameron trying to make himself look good to the rest of the world with the AID we tax payers have to suffer, only to now look a complete fool if this report is anything to go by. - Richard, Khon Kaen, Thailand, 20/9/2013 5:08 Click to rate Report abuse Methinks it is time to stop giving aid to countries with corrupt governments, (yes, I know that a non-corrupt government is an oxymoron). Especially the ones with nuclear weapons, or those who can afford a space program. - Fact Hunt, LA, United States, 20/9/2013 8:59 Click to rate Report abuse Tell that to Cameron with his arrogant, dogmatic insistence that the foreign aid budget must be protected ......tell him if anybody can but I doubt it as he is not interested in listening to anybody not even his own parliamentary back benchers. - semperbritannica, Wisbech, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 9:01 Click to rate Report abuse If the government carries on borrowing and giving so much international aid , it wont be long before the UK will need aid itself . Its about time these do-gooder politicians started to look at the mess there own countries in before wasting tax payers money abroad . - williamcook07, lincoln, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 4:47 Rating 8 Rating 8 Rating 8 Rating 8 Rating 9 Rating 9 Rating 9

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How about cut Nigerians off our pay roll and focus on our countries need - pess8638, Plymouth, 20/9/2013 7:44 Click to rate Report abuse Simple. STOP ALL FOREIGN AID until Enlgand can get things right in it's own backyard! How many homeless and starving poeple are there which this money would better benefit? Stop it, stop it NOW! - Auster Hargan, Bris Vegas, Australia, 20/9/2013 5:21 Click to rate Report abuse Ether the Nigerian thieves are slipping or the auditors are no good. the skim from the Oil industry in 1980 was 15 Billion dollars and rising according to the auditors (Who got sacked for telling all and naming names) - Jock, Tavira, Portugal, 20/9/2013 6:56 Click to rate Report abuse And that, my friends, is just a little drop in the ocean when it comes to Nigerian corruption........ aide to Africa is wholly pointless, unless you physically provide the goods and services directly to those in need. Intra government aid will be stolen. - KRB, Suffolk UK, 20/9/2013 5:08 Click to rate Report abuse Yes, how very pathetic can we possibley get. Cameron take note and stop this farce today and we can get our super carriers on line that much sooner to protect our waters. Listening to the BBC this morning DM the figure was actually put at 5 billion dollars a year that corrupt officials are creaming off the top. Its exactly the same with aid. There are estimates that up to 80% of aid is creamed of by terrorists, and chancers. They will never learn while we keep pouring money down the black hole. - Freddy.Johnson, Pennan Aberdeenshire, 20/9/2013 6:39 Click to rate Report abuse - Ruckus , over here, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 02:35 >>> You are right and yet that clown Cameron wants austerity measures and equally rich Osborne says, while swallowing his consomme and foi gras; 'we are all in this together'. As Jim Royle would say; 'My A*se' - skyguy, Wallasey, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 7:14 Click to rate Report abuse Dear me - corruption in Nigeria ? That's quite a shock .....said no-one ever. - Marcus, Sydney, Australia, 20/9/2013 7:50 Rating 7 Rating 7 Rating 7 Rating 7 Rating 7 Rating 8

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The last sentence has to be a joke: "The Department for International Development, which administers the aid budget, said Britain was working to fight corruption in Nigeria." What a load of tosh! Firstly, simply stop the subsidy, secondly, if the Dept were really doing this, it would first and foremost warn EVERYONE everywhere about Nigerian internet scams. - canute, on the beach, 20/9/2013 7:29 Click to rate Report abuse The British taxpayer is aiding corruption in Nigeria. Is the oil 'stolen' or is it being bought by some fat cats here using taxpayers money to buy it under the table. it would be interesting to know who the thieves are on both sides. - bigben, london, 20/9/2013 7:16 Click to rate Report abuse The only thing Cameron excels in is in giving away other peoples money. - robroy, iver uk, 20/9/2013 7:39 Click to rate Report abuse How can we have old people dying of cold because they cannot afford to put their heating on and send money abroad to make the rich richer? the money sent abroad as bribes could pay for all the old peoples energy costs - bringiton, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 7:47 Click to rate Report abuse When are we going to stop this stupidity? Over to you Cameron. - NotoEU., Tunbridge Wells, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 8:32 Click to rate Report abuse THE COST OF VANITY...... "Austerity-hit Britain is spending a larger share of its wealth on foreign aid than any other G8 member nation, despite making huge spending cuts at home, a report revealed yesterday.The G8 'accountability' review showed that between 2011 and 2012 several countries decided to rein in their foreign aid budgets. Japan, Italy and the US chose to focus on helping their own citizens, handing out a smaller percentage of their national income than the year before.Italy was even given a 'red light' warning for failing to meet 'internationally agreed targets'. But cash-strapped Britain spent 0.56 per cent of national income on aid against 0.19 per cent in the US and just 0.03 per cent in Russia." - BROADSWORD, Ryeford, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 7:29 Click to rate Report abuse Many years ago an experienced Africa hand told me " show me an African Politician and I will show you a crook" Our billions "to stop corruption" are obviously not giving value for money. We have loads of charities who bombard us every meal time with requests to save Africa, the classic being that they do not have decent drinking water. If a country has the Rating 6 Rating 6 Rating 6 Rating 7 Rating 7 Rating 7

ability to have a space programme surely it can sort out water quality. It would be much better if all foreign aid was dealt with by charities instead of Government, then the tax payer has a choice. Once again we have policies that are there to satisfy a politicians vanity - Adrian, Stoke-on-Trent, 20/9/2013 7:03 Click to rate Report abuse The trouble with do-gooders is that they do it with other people's money. Britain must not give foreign aid to anybody, especially foreigners! - Dave-R, Bournemouth, 20/9/2013 7:59 Click to rate Report abuse Foreign aid must be tied to population control and improved government. In many countries that British politicians send taxpayers money the local rich don't even pay tax. - Expat Gold Coast, Gold Coast, Australia, 20/9/2013 8:13 Click to rate Report abuse anybody who has lived there,as i did for thirty years knows that this takes place.ALL EXCEPT OUR OOLITICIANS - lagunamer cambridge, cambridge, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 9:33 Click to rate Report abuse I really don't know why we keep giving money to these countries. Practical items, tents, food etc. We ALL know the money goes missing so why why why??? - Ali, Ipswich, 20/9/2013 7:47 Click to rate Report abuse Why are we giving Nigeria Aid when they are oil rich? No wonder they come over here to rip us off they think we're mugs. - JOMALONE, LimeBasilandMandarin, 20/9/2013 6:03 Click to rate Report abuse Why when we have so many of our own issues, do we continue to pour hard earned tax money down the toilets in other countries. It took a while to stop the AID going to others when they had their own space programme. The rich will continue to prosper, and the wealthy etc it just keeps going around in circles. Surely charity begins at home ????? If we all know that these funds never get where they should be going, why are these funds continually thrown at these corrupt regimes ????????? Just stop giving it away, simple, and look after some of our own , you know just to make a change. It could be that we ensure all of out senior citizens, who have paid into our system for donkeys years actually get looked after this winter, instead of struggling again. - Jordie, Orpington, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 5:54 Click to rate Rating 5 Rating 5 Rating 6 Rating 6 Rating 6 Rating 6 Rating 6

Report abuse Stop all foreign aid now, today. Sort out the poverty in this country first. Charity begins at home. Are you listening Dave, you promised to reduce foreign aid in the run up to the election, or was that just another Cameron con? - the escapologist, not in UK, 20/9/2013 7:06 Click to rate Report abuse What a complete farce. Just one year without giving aid to other countries would solve pretty much all of the day to day problems here in the UK. The nhs, police and fire services would nt need to be facing debilitating cutbacks that can only harm this country. Why don't the government look after its own country for a change. - Fed up, Middx, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 8:28 Click to rate Report abuse uh,speechless - raganbones, berkhamsted, 20/9/2013 8:46 Click to rate Report abuse Having lived & worked in Nigeria, It's difficult to understand why governments & charities give money, there is almost no distribution of wealth from oil, aid, or charities & I've seen Oxfam, US aid, and other charities donations of food & clothing openly sold in the markets. - Richard H, overseas, 20/9/2013 7:34 Click to rate Report abuse Yet our old, sick and poor are overlooked and in some cases simply ignored. What the country needs is a referendum party. Where major issues like this can be voted on by everyone. Yes or no that's all that would be needed. - EnglishCad, Canterbury Cad Towers, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 8:08 Click to rate Report abuse Our spare room tax goes towards there space programme wonderful isn't it - mick, Teesside, 20/9/2013 7:54 Click to rate Report abuse Stop all overseas aid we are BROKE - Paolo, London, 20/9/2013 7:08 Click to rate Report abuse Rating 5 Rating 5 Rating 5 Rating 5 Rating 5 Rating 5 Rating 5

roll on 2015! - toldyouso, birmingham, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 9:32 Click to rate Report abuse Any money given to Africa is a waste. Hasn't solved any problems in the last 50 years. - Churchill, Beaconsfield, England, 20/9/2013 5:10 Click to rate Report abuse But police here are bring cut by millions! - blue moon, california, 20/9/2013 5:25 Click to rate Report abuse This is where the money from stopping child benefit and child tax credit for the "rich" goes to be wasted. - Peter, Eastleigh, 20/9/2013 7:01 Click to rate Report abuse The most corrupt stinking hole l've ever had the misfortune to work in, unfortunately corruption is a way of life there and it'll never change , the people are too backward. - Jim, Cambridge, 20/9/2013 6:40 Click to rate Report abuse No Government has ANY RIGHT to give out ANY FOREIGN AID. Sorry, this is true! If the people of Nigeria deserve handouts then the INDIVIDUALS in the UK can decide themselves and send the money. If I win the lottery the first thing I will do is challenge the ENTIRE foreign aid budget in court. By WHAT RIGHT does any PM take my tax money and give it to FOREIGN POWERS???? - Samuel Pickwick, Anywhere BUT London, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 8:29 Click to rate Report abuse You cannot 'steal' that amount of oil. It is sold into the market and the funds end up in that lovely country Switzerland. Thieves and accessories after the fact. - JohnDee, Cognac, 20/9/2013 8:08 Click to rate Report abuse Unfortunately this is not recent news............ - JGM01, Newcastle, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 7:31 Rating 5 Rating 5 Rating 5 Rating 5 Rating 5 Rating 5 Rating 5

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I've said it before and I'll say it again - Stop ALL foreign aid now. We cannot afford it !! - woody, Wakefield, 20/9/2013 7:41 Click to rate Report abuse When will we learn - mc125, Birmingham, 20/9/2013 7:26 Click to rate Report abuse Why do we have to give money Why can we just give food Again we are taken for a ride from cultures that have standards of take take take and we just give in - omg, Heart of England, 20/9/2013 7:26 Click to rate Report abuse Are you reading this Dave & George? - AllanE, Treharris, 20/9/2013 8:46 Click to rate Report abuse send them a thermometer and a wind vane to check the weather. - john grootjans, barrie, Canada, 20/9/2013 5:32 Click to rate Report abuse Unbelievable! - Terry Jones, Camden, 20/9/2013 4:50 Click to rate Report abuse Nooo, fraud in Nigeria, surely not. - Badpuppy, LONDON, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 8:39 Click to rate Report abuse The government has a duty to spend our taxes wisely and they have failed. Stop wasting my money. - The Duck, Up North, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 7:51 Rating 5 Rating 5 Rating 5 Rating 5 Rating 5 Rating 5 Rating 5

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Stop giving them (and others) money and spend it where it is most needed, in our own country. Simple. - BKS, Gosport Uk, 20/9/2013 5:58 Click to rate Report abuse Foreign aid is only used for the benefit of civil servants, highly paid charity staff and so that this pratt of a prime minister than pose on the world's stage. - AGScott, Oxford, 20/9/2013 8:20 Click to rate Report abuse Eurgh why do we allow out leaders to carry on waiting OUR money? I'm abit apprehensive about ukip being in charge but they seem to be the only people who understand the common man and what we want! They shall be getting my vote despite my reservations just to stop these idiots in charge now - ME4PM, the north, 20/9/2013 7:07 Click to rate Report abuse And still Cameron won't listen - Cricky, Northampton, 20/9/2013 7:06 Click to rate Report abuse Get real. Our Government is not stupid. We grease the palms of corrupt officials via unaudited Aid and they ensure that we get contracts. Otherwise to expand exports we would need to rely on corporate bribery which puts our business people at risk of foreign and UK prosecution. - Worldsgonmad, Reading, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 8:57 Click to rate Report abuse It is a moral and social obligation for all politicans to help the less unfortunate in their own society by supporting programmes such a s free school meals for disadvantaged pupils between the ages of 4 and 7, rather than supporting countries such as China; India; Pakistan - all of whom have both Nuclear as well as Space programmes and Nigeria one of the most corrupt nations on earth! Aid is good - but for the ones own citizens first! - Walter, Stuttgart, Germany, 20/9/2013 6:31 Click to rate Report abuse I am voting UKIP. Enough is enough. Our elderly cannot afford to eat or keep themselves warm. We have children who cannot write, read or do basic arithmetic by the age of eleven and yet we are giving billions of pounds away in these corrupt deals. - GrannyGiles, Up Country Somewhere, 20/9/2013 7:07 Rating 4 Rating 5 Rating 5 Rating 5 Rating 5 Rating 5

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Oh I didn't know we had a billion to give away, there was me thinking Britain was in billions of debt !! - Katie, Essex, 20/9/2013 6:30 Click to rate Report abuse Daily mail, as long as you support conservatives/labour this will keep happening either stop complaining about it or start supporting UKIP - Mark, london, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 8:53 Click to rate Report abuse corruption ? never,our government would spot that straight away............only because they are so used to it themselves. For a country that is on it's knees being skint,where are we getting this money from and why are we sending this kind of money over to a country that doesn't need it ? Charity begins at home,this government need to sort out this country and all the rip off petrol firms,gas,electric,water companies to name a few and put the GREAT back into Britain. - Bigga, kent, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 7:08 Click to rate Report abuse Its called BRIBING - Pavlovs Dog, USSR, 20/9/2013 7:11 Click to rate Report abuse All overseas aid should be stopped now! giving money directly to corrupt Governments is wrong. People should be allowed to choose the Charities they want to support, not corrupt Governments giving money to buy favours with tax payers money! - Sally Anne Taylor, Crawley, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 6:44 Click to rate Report abuse But it keeps Cameron at the top table of overseas aid givers, who voted this arrogant fool into the highest office in the country, & all the Tories commenting in the Daily Mail whinge because we give our own people (the Scots) a couple of bob more than the affluent South East. Bl***y hypocrites. - ronnie, blaydon on tyne, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 8:21 Click to rate Report abuse Grrrrrr Makes my blood boil UK needs that more then ever. Rich Tories giving away oir money again to relieve there conscious How does this help? - SteveThornton, Coventry Uk, 20/9/2013 7:01 Rating 4 Rating 4 Rating 4 Rating 4 Rating 4 Rating 4

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no wonder all our public services are being squeezed-look to your own countrymen first! - Admiral Benbow, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 20/9/2013 8:20 Click to rate Report abuse HA-HA ! - Swivel I Dloon, LONDON UK, 20/9/2013 7:08 Click to rate Report abuse All foreign aid should be stopped. Set up teams of army charities for genuine disasters that will fly out & assist genuine emergencies. We've been fed lies for nearly 30 years about helping them help themselves. It doesn't work. - The Count Of Monte Cristo., Over the hills & far away..., 20/9/2013 6:35 Click to rate Report abuse Share this comment Page 1 of 2 12Next The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Rating 4 Rating 4 Rating 4

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