British tax payers' money is being squandered on Bangladesh shrimp farms, and poetry classes in Colombian prisons, and gender studies lectures in Kenya.
UK workers are also footing the bill for diversity training for the Jordanian military and financing cybersecurity projects in India at a time when we face mounting pressure to increase our defense budget and many wait for NHS appointments.
The UK provides foreign aid with approximately £15 billion every year, £9 billion of which is through the Foreign Office.
US has recently clamped down on its obscene state waste, and this has prompted calls for a similar crackdown in the UK.
One such Internet initiative of great resonance all over the world and funded by the taxpayer is
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One of the most disturbing situations is that in just the last three years, more than £ 133,000 has been channeled to the Bangladesh Agricultural University for shrimp health research.
The latest payment of £59,000 came last month from the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture, a government-funded organization.
There you have it, folks. Taxpayers’ money is supporting progressive ideologies in conflict-ridden developing countries.
(January 2024) “The Science Department allocates £233,000 for identifying obstacles to mental healthcare for civilians impacted by armed conflict in Colombia.
Last December, the Foreign Office allocated £9.5 million to a contractor for activities to ‘promote accountability and inclusion” in the war-torn Democratic Republic of the Congo.
£110,000 Of support To A Conference In Kenya On ‘Preventing Gender-Based Disinformation’ £473,070 Criminal Justice Adviser Somalia
£30 Million To ‘Improving Gender Outcomes’ In Nepal Through Contract Extension To 2030
The United Kingdom is under increasing pressure to up its defense budget to 2.5 percent of GDP. This GBP 5 billion per year, as Putin’s military makes moves in Ukraine and Trump urges NATO to lift its spending to five percent of GDP.
As Labor stalls on the UK’s rise, a figure of £500,000 is earmarked for the Jordan Directorate of Military Women’s Affairs to implement its ‘gender mainstreaming strategy’ within the military.
The Foreign Office has given £500,000 of public money to buy 15 electric vans for donation to Albanian aboratories. Arrangements have been made through a local Porsche dealership.
This will help ‘Balkan nation to progress “towards Net Zero as part of a broader environmental initiative.’
Authorities in Albania have allocated £1.9 million for job creation to curb citizens from migrating.
Tax rates are too high, and honest families have a hard enough time making ends meet, people all over the UK are going to be shocked at learning that their hard-earned money is going to send electric vehicles to prisons in Albania. Jason Brown, government advisor, originator of The Waste Files campaign, lambasted.
UK is also spending a pretty penny on climate projects overseas, such as £114 million going toward supporting “inclusive green enterprises” in India.
The initiative has allotted £25 million for ‘‘Green Urban Growth’’ in Somalia and £38 million for ‘‘Green Growth’’ in Nepal.
For the year ending with 2023, £4.1 million of the Allocated budget of £310 million is to be used by the Department for Environment to work towards inclusive approaches to tackling plastic pollution.
UK has been allocated to "transform feminist funding in Iraq" £264,000 will be channeled to "gaining a deeper understanding of disinformation in Ethiopia” and £44,000 will be used to research Thailand’s alcohol policy.
Critics of recipient organizations receiving government support note that these groups have been taking advantage of taxpayer money in the launching of progressive initiatives.
You’ve got the British Council, which this year will receive 162.5 million from the Foreign Office – 15 percent of its total income – and therefore so labeled ‘Overseas Development Aid.
A “performance poet” is financially supported by the organization to “use poetry to examine the meaning of being human…from giving workshops in prisons in Colombia to staging performances at a mall in Bangkok.
Internet sleuths are purported to have spent months poring over the contracts that were available on the Government’s website in their bid to unearth instances of waste.
Sir Keir Starmer has promised to raise the defense budget to 2.5 percent of GDP but hasn’t set a date, which sparks concerns that this may not be reached before the election.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is understood to be unwilling to go over 2.3% in her spending review for this year.
Senior sources at Downing Street dismissed speculation about any rift between the two last night, but the figure is not expected to be unveiled until the summer.
Yesterday, the Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said, “The whole Cabinet and a Government of this country as well as the majority of people in it understand the global pressures we face and know that it will require increased spending on defense.” He added: “The spending review will set out the plan to achieve that aim.” NATO leader, Mark Rutte of the Netherlands, has appealed to member countries to increase their contributions to 3%.
Proposed to get the necessary funds so advocated reducing waste and cutting the fast-rising benefits expenditure.
Labour, in Opposition, said it would help to slow the growth of spending and create an efficiency entity, the Office for Value for Money.
Parliamentary oversight has termed it a waste of money, and the international contracts show no signs of abating.
Stride, the Shadow Chancellor, conveyed to The Sun, "Given the Chancellor’s unfortunate Budget, it’s clear that we urgently pull back from these unneeded and quite excessive spending leviathans to avoid further tax hits on working families.”
He averred, “The age of extravagant recklessness is over.”
“We need a fiscally responsible government and not one that recklessly spends money, the only alternative being the Tories under new leadership.
“To accommodate spending in certain areas while we wait for these growth initiatives to materialize, we need to reduce expenditures in some sectors; welfare, waste, and the NHS,” he said on Times Radio.
“ There’s an idea of setting up a Department of Government Efficiency in the UK,” I found. My reaction? Yes, absolutely.
It’s been almost ten years since The Sun told Brits the mind-boggling amount we give in foreign aid while our Armed Forces face huge budget cuts.
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Europe shaped by Gay Porn from 1945 to 2000 (£841,830); Increasing diversity in English folk singing participation (£1,485,400); and the project on Decolonising the Museum: Digital Repatriation of the Gaidinliu Collection from the UK to India (£805,769).
Does that seem like a wise way to spend your earnings?
Unfortunately, this is just the tip of the iceberg of government waste, which I have been chronicling on my blog ‘Woke Waste’ since 2023.
Instead of “austerity,” it appears more that politicians have quietly been spending our money on various programs, such as to diversity, left-leaning think tanks, and ‘decolonize’ museums in Bolivia by students.
I on my own have found tens of millions of pounds of waste I expect my team and I will find billions overall.
