BrianW
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Foreign aid always has strings and is often, in fact, a subsidy for UK companies.
It's part of diplomacy. If you called it what it is, bribes, people would understand.
We've been following this policy for years. Correlli Barnett refers to it in his series of books about post-war Britain.* He gives it as an example of mistaken policy.
* Highly recommended. Although he is no socialist, more like a Thatcherite, his analysis of Britain's policy errors - some of which are almost laughable in retrospect - is invaluable. I suggest you read his books for a much clearer understanding of how modern Britain developed. He slags off all sides. Politicians, trade unions, and by no means least, industrialists.
It's part of diplomacy. If you called it what it is, bribes, people would understand.
We've been following this policy for years. Correlli Barnett refers to it in his series of books about post-war Britain.* He gives it as an example of mistaken policy.
* Highly recommended. Although he is no socialist, more like a Thatcherite, his analysis of Britain's policy errors - some of which are almost laughable in retrospect - is invaluable. I suggest you read his books for a much clearer understanding of how modern Britain developed. He slags off all sides. Politicians, trade unions, and by no means least, industrialists.