CLIMATE BILLIONS IN DOUBT AS BORIS CLOSES INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT

It’s All Over For The Green Blob’s Climate Billions Office Ross Clark, Daily Mail, 17 June 2020 Boris Johnson’s historic decision to abolish the standalone Department for International Development (Dfid) and roll its functions into the Foreign Office is long overdue.    Ever since David Cameron expanded Britain’s aid budget to 0.7 per cent of GDP, scandal after scandal has emerged about millions of pounds of hard-pressed UK taxpayers’ money being shovelled into dubious projects to meet this arbitrary target.    The budget for this bloated department has reached an astonishing £14.6billion this year. Incredibly, Dfid now has 3,700 employees, and cost £326m to operate last year alone.    For that, you’d expect money to be spent on vital projects truly improving the lives of desperate people in the world’s poorest countries. Sadly not.    Here are a few examples of how taxpayers’ money was frittered away by this unlamented department:   Full story     Tell your friends about us They can get our newsletter for free © 2020 The Global Warming Policy Forum, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: The Global Warming Policy Forum 55 Tufton Street London SW1P 3QL United Kingdom About this mailing list: You are receiving this email because you opted into it with your subscription to the GWPF or through CCNet. You can update your list preferences here: - Update subscription preferences - Unsubscribe from this list

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It’s All Over For The Green Blob’s Climate Billions Office Ross Clark, Daily Mail, 17 June 2020 Boris Johnson’s historic decision to abolish the standalone Department for International Development (Dfid) and roll its functions into the Foreign Office is long overdue.    Ever since David Cameron expanded Britain’s aid budget to 0.7 per cent of GDP, scandal after scandal has emerged about millions of pounds of hard-pressed UK taxpayers’ money being shovelled into dubious projects to meet this arbitrary target.    The budget for this bloated department has reached an astonishing £14.6billion this year. Incredibly, Dfid now has 3,700 employees, and cost £326m to operate last year alone.    For that, you’d expect money to be spent on vital projects truly improving the lives of desperate people in the world’s poorest countries. Sadly not.    Here are a few examples of how taxpayers’ money was frittered away by this unlamented department:   Full story     Tell your friends about us They can get our newsletter for free © 2020 The Global Warming Policy Forum, All rights reserved. Our mailing address is: The Global Warming Policy Forum 55 Tufton Street London SW1P 3QL United Kingdom About this mailing list: You are receiving this email because you opted into it with your subscription to the GWPF or through CCNet. You can update your list preferences here: - Update subscription preferences - Unsubscribe from this list

It’s All Over For The Green Blob’s Climate Billions Office
Ross Clark, Daily Mail, 17 June 2020

Boris Johnson’s historic decision to abolish the standalone Department for International Development (Dfid) and roll its functions into the Foreign Office is long overdue. 




 
Ever since David Cameron expanded Britain’s aid budget to 0.7 per cent of GDP, scandal after scandal has emerged about millions of pounds of hard-pressed UK taxpayers’ money being shovelled into dubious projects to meet this arbitrary target. 

The budget for this bloated department has reached an astonishing £14.6billion this year. Incredibly, Dfid now has 3,700 employees, and cost £326m to operate last year alone. 
 
For that, you’d expect money to be spent on vital projects truly improving the lives of desperate people in the world’s poorest countries. Sadly not. 
 
Here are a few examples of how taxpayers’ money was frittered away by this unlamented department:
 
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