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BREAKING: U.K. International Development minister quits over [Starmer] aid cuts
BBC ^ | Feb 28 | BBC

Posted on 02/28/2025 4:49:32 AM PST by RandFan

International Development Minister Anneliese Dodds has resigned over the prime minister's cuts to the aid budget.

In a letter to the prime minister,, external Dodds said the cuts to international aid, announced earlier this week to fund an increase in defence spending, would "remove food and healthcare from desperate people - deeply harming the UK's reputation".

She told Sir Keir Starmer she had delayed her resignation until after his meeting with President Trump, saying it was "imperative that you had a united cabinet behind you as you set off for Washington".

The MP said it was with "sadness" that she was resigning, adding she knew Sir Keir was not "ideologically opposed" to international development.

Ahead of his trip to meet Trump, Sir Keir announced aid funding would be reduced from 0.5% of gross national income to 0.3% in 2027 in order to fund an increase in defence spending.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


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Do I see some cracks appearing...
1 posted on 02/28/2025 4:49:32 AM PST by RandFan
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To: RandFan

“remove food and healthcare from desperate people - deeply harming the UK’s reputation”

What reputation? Laughing stock? Oppressive muzzie bootlickers? Pedophiles? Take your pick.


2 posted on 02/28/2025 4:54:59 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: HYPOCRACY
Trump to Starmer...


3 posted on 02/28/2025 4:58:02 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: RandFan
remove food and healthcare from desperate people - deeply harming the UK's reputation

Well, hell - feeding the starving masses in another country cause they're too damn lazy to feed themselves is MUCH more important than your own national security.

4 posted on 02/28/2025 5:02:00 AM PST by grobdriver (The CDC can KMA!)
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To: RandFan

United Kingdom’s International Development Minister Anneliese Dodds, if she’s worried about a shortage of “food and healthcare for desperate people” and “deeply harming the UK’s reputation”, can go get her money from the Crown, not from money unwillingly borrowed from China and Globalists by U.S. taxpayers.


5 posted on 02/28/2025 5:05:10 AM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: HYPOCRACY

If your reputation has to be bought and paid for...


6 posted on 02/28/2025 5:07:06 AM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: RandFan

So maybe US taxes pay for all of this? The European elites only feign caring when America pays for it?

We have been suckers for far too long.


7 posted on 02/28/2025 5:09:02 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: HYPOCRACY

Honey, it’s called having priorities. It’s something adults have to do all the time. Now go away and have your little pout.


8 posted on 02/28/2025 5:09:16 AM PST by technically right
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To: RandFan

I’m just here for the grift.


9 posted on 02/28/2025 5:10:59 AM PST by AndyJackson
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To: RandFan

They DOGE’d a bullet....................


10 posted on 02/28/2025 5:18:27 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: RandFan

Yikes! this grifter that just resigned may well be the UK’s Eleanor Roosevelt.

https://www.google.com/search?q=Development+Minister+Anneliese+Dodds&client=ms-android-samsung-rvo1&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#vhid=mKRMbL-9g0TpMM&vssid=l


11 posted on 02/28/2025 5:19:11 AM PST by DAC21
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To: HYPOCRACY

“What reputation? Laughing stock? Oppressive muzzie bootlickers? Pedophiles? Take your pick.”

I don’t believe the UK permits discussion of Muslims or Pedophiles as that tends to stereotype groups of people.


12 posted on 02/28/2025 5:22:46 AM PST by BobL (The people who hate Trump demand that you hate Russia)
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To: RandFan

Nope, no cracks.

Something else is going on.

From a UK government website...

“Anneliese Dodds was appointed Minister for Development at the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office and Minister for Women and Equalities at the Department for Education on 8 July 2024. She was elected as the MP for Oxford East in June 2017.”


13 posted on 02/28/2025 5:24:51 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: Empire_of_Liberty
USAID probably paid for the UK generosity, for a price of course. (something other than financial)

That is probably why she really waited until the Starmer meeting with Trump.

Just speculating but it becomes more likely now.

We should watch for these types of stories all over the place now.

14 posted on 02/28/2025 5:26:16 AM PST by dforest
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To: mewzilla

Now that the US taxpayers are no longer propping up Europe’s welfare states, looks like some apparatchiks have decided to grift elsewhere.


15 posted on 02/28/2025 5:26:31 AM PST by mewzilla (Swing away, Mr. President, swing away!)
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To: HYPOCRACY

“She” That says it all. Another DEI hire.

And, yes, any woman reading this — this is the result of letting this sort of discriminatory hiring go on. ALL are tainted.

Like letting someone fund drag queen shows targeted at kiddies — there is no recovery of reputation.


16 posted on 02/28/2025 5:33:41 AM PST by bobbo666
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To: dforest

I just had another thought, too, which is that Trump’s Ukraine policy may give these European Elites an out that they like. They will feign that the generosity is ending, not because America no longer supplies it, but because of a “need” to spend more on defense.

They will not spend more on defense, of course, and just pocket the difference.


17 posted on 02/28/2025 5:35:07 AM PST by Empire_of_Liberty
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To: RandFan

I CARE MORE ABOUT MY BUDGET & MY ABILITY TO SURVIVE THAN MY “REPUTATION”.


18 posted on 02/28/2025 8:08:18 AM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: HYPOCRACY

What about seniors in the UK that can’t afford heat due to cuts in their aid to pay for illegals?

She didn’t give a flip about them, only about foreigners who are not the responsibility of the UK!


19 posted on 02/28/2025 9:10:56 AM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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To: mewzilla

Exactly. The US has been paying for everybody else’s largesse.


20 posted on 02/28/2025 9:12:50 AM PST by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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