[LibWhacker]

My Swiss account is #694782295488533464377, which on your phone dial spells MY GRUBBY LITTLE FINGERS! :-)

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.

[James C. Bennett]

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.

[ravager]

The price of a Big mac in UK being £2.30, £280million a year will buy 1 Big mac for roughly 122 million people....just once a year! Divide that money with 1.2 billion people you will get less then a packet of peanuts for that money..... but it will definitely buy the British tabloid press a large haughty arrogant mouth to spew moral indignation at India.

[ravager]

UK’s current economic debt is roughly £1 trillion pound for a country with a £2.2 trillion pound economy. Thats nearly 47% debt. £280million a year is peanuts even to pay off their own economic debt, let alone do anything for India. So peanuts is right!

Believe it or not, India has her own foreign aid program (roughly worth $1.5 billion) to Afghanistan, Nepal, Burma and West Africa.

Recently India bailed out Europe with $2 billion dollars...
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-to-give-2bn-to-fund-bailouts-in-Europe/articleshow/9463341.cms

And lent $10 billion dollars to IMF....
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/a-reversal-of-fortune-india-lends-to-imf/630443/

[Chickensoup]

The Brits weren’t offering to buy everyone in India a Big Mac.

ooooooooooooooh. poor choice of terms.

[cynwoody]

Can you imagine the gall? £280million a year is nothing to sneeze at, even if you are a whole country.

No, but worthless twits (or much worse!) are.

http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/10/11/rec.giuliani.prince/ [Note the date]