Who wants to be a Slumdog waif and stray?…well it seems quite a lot of Indians don’t mind so much despite the best intentions of those who know what is good for them…and you and me.
The BBC has given Miliband a free ride over his ‘Living standard’s crisis‘, pretty much allowing him to get away with murder whilst making headline grabbing claims for policies that even the most ardent fan would admit don’t hold water and are solely intended to grab those headlines and make Miliband look like he is driving the narrative and is a really good, caring guy….come the election and a possible Labour win and they will all be quietly shelved.
Money and higher spending are always the road to happiness….unless the BBC is in a contrary mood and is lecturing us about ‘consumerism’ and wanting too much.
Having to pull in your belt for a bit, spend less on fags and beer, and your lifestyle has been shockingly curtailed by an uncaring Tory government.
Call the UN. Call the special rapporteurs to investigate this breach in your human rights!
Thankfully not everyone has yet fallen for that line of thinking…..the BBC leapt to the defence of India when critics attacked it for spending a billion pounds on its space programme….and in doing so revealed an amusing tale of rebellion and independence from the depths of the Indian slums in From Our Own Correspondent:(about 11:40)
For India, its mission to Mars is an opportunity to come out top of a new Asian space race. Justin Rowlatt examines the question: couldn’t the cash instead have been used to lift many Indians out of poverty?
The ‘Slumdogs’ weren’t interested in the charities’ charity so much….claiming, literally from the gutter, that ‘Life’s not that hard’.
The charities couldn’t persuade the children and youths to come off the streets and into their care …they wanted their freedom.
I guess there’s some things money can’t buy.
Strange that the BBC continually gives so much credence to the claims in this country that families on anything up to £70,000 a year benefits are in poverty and are therefore unhappy.
Oh….I thought the mission to Mars was a delegation to a chocolate factory to get some carbohydrates for the kids.
Silly me.
Twitter has some references of ‘concerns’ over poor folk suffering from high smartphone payment issues causing families distress. I have checked and it is not April 1st.
If we get the head of iPhone Counselling UK from Breakfast to Newsnight telling us it’s all the fault of the cuts, the #prasnews #charity4anything shark combo will truly have been jumped.
And the UK still hands out £280 Million a year in Aid to India. The left tell me, that people in India need our money, yet India not only has a space program which the UK hasn’t it has a much bigger Military. (RAF total fleet size 818, Indian Airforce offensive aircraft alone…798)
It like the poor of the UK had to fund richer peoples lifestyles..
Err hang on: bBC MPs,
The BBC was quick to honk on about how the cost of the two aircraft carriers had reached £6 Billion, they never complain about the £11 Billion a year we will be spending on foreign aid.
Because we donate so much of OUR money to India, can we claim that this is also a partly British space program too?
Of course, the money we send to poverty stricken countries in the name of ‘aid’ is actually nothing more than an unimaginative, materialistic exercise in alleviating our own guilt and keeping such countries on our side. It’s all a part of the diplomatic process.
Can India send Chris Packham on the next rocket?
The payload has to be a maximum 30lbs.
By instalments maybe?