Posted on 02/05/2012 9:09:14 AM PST by MBT ARJUN
India's Finance Minister referred to the financial aid given by Britain to his country as nothing more than 'peanuts', it is claimed.
It is also claimed that Pranab Mukherjee and other Indian ministers tried to reject the money - around £280million a year - from the UK in 2011, but the British Government 'begged' them to take the money.
The Sunday Telegraph claims that the Indian government were disposed to reject the money in April last year, because of the 'negative publicity of Indian poverty' highlighted by the aid.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096628/British-foreign-aid-India-tells-Britain-dont-need-peanuts-offer-us.html#ixzz1lWkmhZjq
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They should take it and give it to me.
Please PM me your Account No..
I got no peanuts. :(
Cameron is an idiot. The profit margin for the typical defense firm is about 6%. 6% of $20b is $1.2b, or roughly what the UK has handed over to India. He’d be better off zeroing out the aid budget - as India’s Finance Minister has recommended - over the next 5 years and handing the money over to the manufacturer of Eurofighter.
we and the Brits need to stop giving aid....period.
The Sunday Telegraph claims that the Indian government were disposed to reject the money in April last year, because of the 'negative publicity of Indian poverty' highlighted by the aid.£280 million worth of peanuts, well, that may be way too many peanuts.
It’s pretty clear that the wastrels in DC should review the continuation of American aid to India. It’s less than peanuts, at just over $100m a year.
Can you imagine the gall? £280million a year is nothing to sneeze at, even if you are a whole country. The Brits weren't offering to buy everyone in India a Big Mac. I'm sure the Indians can figure out a good use for it, sheesh.
It's trash, but there will be many in India that see these silly gestures as some sort of symbol that India has “become someone.” It's the same sort of junk as when Schroeder talked of his “Deutscher Weg” and stabbed the US in the back. Many on the political right actually found themselves supporting this liberal politician because of how the scenario was framed.
These are simply cheap shots and the people that walk around beating their chest with their new found national pride are sheep.
But why did the UK beg them to take it? Think of all the elderly couples they could forcibly move to smaller flats with that money!
Nop!why blame cameroon,when you the one who is an Idiot. Your rant ,B.S and troll are like old school jibes. 20billion $ is just for Contract with 50% to be invested back in India as offset but still u get the profit.This is GOI condition to promote Jobs and industry in India.
And besides 20billion $ ,think about spare part industry and Job creation in country of origin.
Hope mods here are not in high to ignore a chinese CCP paid 50cent internet warrior.
What did you just say? What does the last sentence mean? What does any of it mean?
Peanuts or walnuts, these comments were reported in the British press as being attributed to remarks made during a Indian parliamentary session last year.
The ‘peanuts’ comment was made in reference to the quantum of British aid to total Indian development expenditure rather than being directed at the British government. There was no mention of it in the Indian press last year. British tabloids have played up the claim to fuel a frenzy over aid to India after it decided against buying a half-British fighter.
Britain was obviously trying to buy India by giving money in the guise of aid - hoping to snatch a 10-to-20 billion-dollar aircraft deal through what would have been undue influence.
The “aid” given (against the will of the recipient) did not come without strings attached.
Besides, the ‘peanuts’ comment was not addressed to Britain.
Britain is up to its t*ts in debt, and Britain has to beg India to take money we can’t afford to give to a nation that doesn’t want it. WTF is going on?!?!
One always has to take a deep think and try to take in some excellent give and take on FR on this post. Perhaps these contracts for armaments do have a bearing. One can imagine the "party time" for the bureaucrats when these so called foreign aid grants are received. Something like the charitable agencies that take most money for "administration". This side of the Atlantic.
Fwiw. the last massacre in India by the British was at Amritsar 1919. Machine guns in armoured cars opened fire on demonstrators against British rule. 400 dead, a 1000 wounded. The British parliament condemned fiery General Dwyer for this.
Queen Elizabeth 11 humbled herself in 1997 on a visit to India, wearing some form of non european garment. She was born after the massacre. Her grandfather ruled then.
Who in their right mind would want to rule India? Besides the stories from Jim Corbett what exactly enriched the West by turning them into being a colony?
Do you a deal India.
We really don’t need the 15 million of your citizens you sent us. Take them back and we’ll stop sending you money.
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