Hooray…I Think: UK to End Foreign Aid to India by 2015

Hard-pressed British taxpayers will be ecstatic to learn that they will stop handing over billions in cash to nuclear-power, navy-larger-than-ours, more-millionaires-than Britain, India — but only by 2015.

Image: The Chandrayaan-1, India’s maiden lunar mission, before launch at the Satish Dhawan Space Centre near Chennai.

The Tory-labour-Libdem party has announced that support will “be cut” by about £200m between 2013 and 2015 before being stopped completely.

The announced by “International Development” secretary Justine Greening that aid will be “cut” by that amount, raises the question of how much aid India has actually received over the years—and the answer is billions and billions.

During the Labour years, British taxpayer hand-outs to India amount to some £421 million per year. Even calculated “only” over a ten year period (say, when the Labour part of the Tory-Labour-Libdem party was in power) this amounts to £4,210,000,000 (that is over £4 billion) and “aid” has been on-going since 1949.

Just how mad the British handouts to India is, was ell illustrated by the July 2012 announcement by the Indian government that India actually has set up its own international aid agency similar to USAID and UK’s Department for International Development (DFID)—and has a budget of $15-billion. (India sets up global aid agency).

The Indian foreign aid programme has seen “significant contributions” in the South Asia region in the areas of education, IT, energy and healthcare, according to Ministry of External Affairs’ (MEA) additional secretary P.S. Raghavan.

“Efforts such as post-war reconstruction projects in Sri Lanka, hydroelectric power projects with Bhutan, which is the biggest recipient of Indian aid, road connectivity projects with Myanmar, which will connect the India’s Mizoram with the Myanmar port of Sittwe and recently a multitude of development projects in Afghanistan including recent plans to export more than 1.5 lakh tonnes of wheat to the struggling nation are some instances of India’s growing influence via foreign development projects,” it was announced.

In other words, India has a foreign aid program which dwarfs the UK’s contribution to India. Under the Tory-Libdem part of the single party which rules Britain, foreign aid to India currently runs at around £280 million per year.

India, of course, has a £1.25 billion space programme and in August announced that it was going to send a spacecraft to Mars in 2013 on a £52 million mission.

In February this year, the then Indian finance minister Pranab Mukherjee said in public that Britain’s foreign aid contribution was a “peanut” in India’s “total development expenditure”.

So why does Britain give aid to India in the first place? There are two answers: the liberal “interpretation” and then there is the truth.

The liberal “interpretation” is that a third of the planet’s population who are below the World Bank’s extreme poverty line live in India, and that half of all children in the country are malnourished and it does not have the tax base to eliminate poverty though internal wealth redistribution.

These facts, however, ignore the obvious question: why then does India spend billions on a navy, nuclear submarines, atom bombs, space ships and foreign aid, when at least a third of its own population are almost literally starving to death.

The truth is, of course, completely different. British foreign aid is actually grounded in liberal hypocrisy, which pretends to aspire to racial equality but which in in fact is little more than secret white supremacism.

It is the same leftist logic which drives affirmative action programmes, and it works like this: whites are inherently superior, therefore the only way that non-whites can get ahead or at least achieve equality, is to artificially boost them with white money—that then, is the true liberal thought process.

The liberals just cannot accept that India is perfectly able to look after itself, and, if it chooses to leave a third of its population in squalor, well then that is there choice and no reason for anyone else to interfere.

So we should be glad at least that the madness of aid to India is stopping. But it is not all good news.

David Cameron’s government has announced that the total foreign aid budget is still set to increase to £12.6 billion by 2014—which is more than is spent on policing in Britain.

Once again, the traitors in Westminster have made sure that the Third World is placed before the interests of the British people.