China is an aggressive nation undeserved of our cash – malign actor status must disqualify them from UK aid
Fiasco on aid
FOR years The Sun has railed against the madness of handing UK aid money to China. How can this still be going on?
Let’s leave aside that this is an increasingly aggressive enemy, Russia’s ally, a malign tyranny which destroyed freedom in Hong Kong, hacks our companies, enslaved a million Muslims and threatens to invade Taiwan.
Though any one of those should disqualify it from our generosity.
Why are we still pretending China is a poor nation needing our cash?
It hasn’t been for decades.
We even sent money to its Ordos region, where average personal wealth tops 69 areas of Britain.
Our aid budget should feed the world’s hungry and genuinely destitute.
We funded opera in Shanghai, traffic calming in Malaysia and a bike lane in Mexico City. Why?
How can we give away this borrowed cash while our own OAPs are stripped of their winter heating allowance?
One Tory MP says the aid budget risks being “brought into disrepute”.
That horse has bolted, run down the road, over the horizon and died of old age.
Butcher’s beef
GENOCIDE. War crimes. Crimes against humanity. The atrocities of the Butcher of Bosnia Radovan Karadzic rank alongside the grimmest of the 20th Century.
At Srebrenica in 1995 he had 8,000 Muslim men and boys massacred in an orgy of savagery likened by a judge to “scenes from hell, written on the darkest pages of human history”.
How can anyone take seriously that HIS human rights are being violated by disagreeable grub at Albany jail on the Isle of Wight — or his laptop being removed?
He is lucky to be drawing breath.
Many will wonder why Karadzic is in a UK jail costing taxpayers a fortune.
Britain helped bring him to justice and regrettably must take our share of international war criminals.
But it still sticks in the craw that this creature gets to sue the Government over our hospitality — potentially stinging taxpayers for thousands more in compensation and fees.
Our judges will, we trust, laugh him out of court.
A rich seam
AS inevitable as the turning of the Earth, other unions are lining up for the same lavish pay deals as were handed without question to Aslef and the junior doctors.
First up is the hard-Left RMT rail union, whose thuggish belligerence is only equalled in scale by its greed.
Leader Mick Lynch watched Aslef get 14 per cent and threatens “problems” if it’s not matched.
As of course it will be.
The rest of the public sector’s strike-happy militants will then pile in.
And your take-home pay will go down to make them richer.