PLEASE stop these begging adverts!!!!!!!!
29 December 2013, 09:53 PM
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For example, it's been reported in the media this weekend that Cameron, Milliband and Clegg have valiantly got together to pledge billions of pounds in overseas aid paid for by you and I.
Now I know that you think this is a brilliant idea, but these jokers can't even support a few old folk trapped in a flood with no hot food or heating on Christmas day.
I realise that everyone deserves time off on Christmas day but many people have been working over the holiday period and even I have done that in the past. There is even a thread on here somewhere discussing the subject.
But you seem to think that council workers are exempt from working over the holiday and providing support to their own people in their own locality at a time of distress over the Christmas period.
If we can't or are incapable of looking after our own why the **** are these idiots pledging our money in overseas aid when the Governments of these countries in question have no desire to help and support there own citizens?
Now I know that you think this is a brilliant idea, but these jokers can't even support a few old folk trapped in a flood with no hot food or heating on Christmas day.
I realise that everyone deserves time off on Christmas day but many people have been working over the holiday period and even I have done that in the past. There is even a thread on here somewhere discussing the subject.
But you seem to think that council workers are exempt from working over the holiday and providing support to their own people in their own locality at a time of distress over the Christmas period.
If we can't or are incapable of looking after our own why the **** are these idiots pledging our money in overseas aid when the Governments of these countries in question have no desire to help and support there own citizens?
The problem is people like you will always find a reason why we shouldn't help others, especially when they have a different skin colour.
We can see an excellent example of it in your post above.
Because Cameron didn't mobilise the SAS when a few of our citizens were without leccy we should allow millions to die from famine and disease. Seriously??? For the sake of less than 1% of our GDP??
You try and dress your bigotry up by saying you are concerned 'about looking after our own'. Typical narrow minded bigoted clap trap.
And what is 'our own' anyway? I'm not sure you are 'my own' and so perhaps I'd rather see my tax money going to save some poor sod abroad than keeping you warm in your old age.
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29 December 2013, 11:27 PM
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The problem is people like you will always find a reason why we shouldn't help others, especially when they have a different skin colour.
We can see an excellent example of it in your post above.
Because Cameron didn't mobilise the SAS when a few of our citizens were without leccy we should allow millions to die from famine and disease. Seriously??? For the sake of less than 1% of our GDP??
You try and dress your bigotry up by saying you are concerned 'about looking after our own'. Typical narrow minded bigoted clap trap.
And what is 'our own' anyway? I'm not sure you are 'my own' and so perhaps I'd rather see my tax money going to save some poor sod abroad than keeping you warm in your old age.
We can see an excellent example of it in your post above.
Because Cameron didn't mobilise the SAS when a few of our citizens were without leccy we should allow millions to die from famine and disease. Seriously??? For the sake of less than 1% of our GDP??
You try and dress your bigotry up by saying you are concerned 'about looking after our own'. Typical narrow minded bigoted clap trap.
And what is 'our own' anyway? I'm not sure you are 'my own' and so perhaps I'd rather see my tax money going to save some poor sod abroad than keeping you warm in your old age.
30 December 2013, 09:30 PM
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I don't understand your charitable sentiment towards poverty overseas but your contempt of the poor in the UK.
30 December 2013, 09:38 PM
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A kind of racism perhaps - the poor third world people with brown skin who are helpless children free of blame who we must help due to white mans burden, but the British poor have a moral failing and are to blame for their own poverty.
31 December 2013, 12:29 AM
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It was me that mentioned space
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/...million-in-aid
That's what I'm on about. If we stopped that nonsense.
In every country there are genuine people who need help. Half the time it never gets there.
You must see there's a huge problem when the whole world gives aid to Africa and it gets no better.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/...million-in-aid
That's what I'm on about. If we stopped that nonsense.
In every country there are genuine people who need help. Half the time it never gets there.
You must see there's a huge problem when the whole world gives aid to Africa and it gets no better.
31 December 2013, 07:03 AM
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Thanks for the psychoanalysis, but as usual you are wrong. However I'm not going to waste the last day of 2013 setting you straight.
Interesting you mention racism. Now this is what I call racism.
https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...rcharging.html
31 December 2013, 04:03 PM
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I witnessed how several of these organisations operate during some work I was doing with them from a consultancy point of view.
Shocking to say the least, and money is wasted all over the place.
As for CEO salaries - again, some shocking numbers
31 December 2013, 04:54 PM
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[QUOTE=urban;11309888]No way man.
Huge salaries at management level.
Large salaries at senior staff levels, and the biggest bunch of incompetent people into the bargain - they make public sector works look good
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Just to get you all going, here's the Daily Mail's latest "Aid They Don't Deserve article". 
Step forward the lucky recipient: Argentina.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...Falklands.html
Step forward the lucky recipient: Argentina.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...Falklands.html
04 January 2014, 03:16 PM
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Just had a quick look.
UNICEF UK for every pound donated 76p goes directly to the children. App in 2011 they committed 95 million to children welfare. So let's do some maths.
So from the pound they retain 25% so when they give 95 million they have taken 119 million in donations.
Now tell me if my maths are off but that's 24 million not given to charity or am kissing something and being really stupid.
They say 2% goes to admin which is roughly 1.5mil and the rest goes to fund raising.
My guess would be the companies used to do the fund raising are owned or part of people to do with said charity.
UNICEF UK for every pound donated 76p goes directly to the children. App in 2011 they committed 95 million to children welfare. So let's do some maths.
So from the pound they retain 25% so when they give 95 million they have taken 119 million in donations.
Now tell me if my maths are off but that's 24 million not given to charity or am kissing something and being really stupid.
They say 2% goes to admin which is roughly 1.5mil and the rest goes to fund raising.
My guess would be the companies used to do the fund raising are owned or part of people to do with said charity.
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