British clowns Vs Indian Clowns

[working_mom]

So, a billion $$ jet deal is given to France and as was expected the old men in London were stomping their feet and pouting like my 3 year old. But what was more funnier was this clamour for stopping aid to India which as per reports "Britain begged India to acccept so as not to embarass Britain". But the joke was lost when I read the below extract in paper:

"International development secretary Andrew Mitchell even admitted that the focus of aid to India included "seeking to sell the Typhoon" – in violation of the stated rationale of British overseas aid, to fight poverty and promote health and education."

This is an open admission of attempted bribery to rig the bidding process for the jet deal. At least the clowns in Indian parliment would never admit to such a crime so openly and if there ever was such an admission, Indian courts would have immediately halted and ordered a relook of the entire aid process. I thought Indians are stuck with crappiest politicians now I am not so sure.

[name]

there are plenty of other reasons for the UK stopping aid to India:
the Indian space programme
the Indian nuclear arsenal
the large wealth already in India
being able to host the Commonwealth Games - but that might be a demonstration of why aid is required...
corruption
etc.

[Dr. Phil]

The mystery is not why Britain stopped giving India so much Aid.
Its why Britain ever made such a sacrifice?

The Labour Party want to prostrate themselves in front of an "exploding Indian economy".

Those of us who know better, see a welcome improvement facilitated by western sacrifice. We cede our jobs for your future. Matter can neither be created nor destroyed. Likewise jobs, what you gain, we must relinquish. Hence the desperate desire to increase consumption which will be our downfall.

Your economy and infrastructure is irreversibly corrupt.
Even your own Indian entrepreneurs weep in abject frustration at the destructive and prohibitive bureaucracy.

What we give in Aid, you and Pakistan spend on nuclear development.

What grates with me is that Britain is effectively financing the nuclear development of an apartheid society or, in Pakistan's case, a mediaeval theocratic militant melee.

[working_mom]

What grates with me is that Britain is effectively financing the nuclear development of an apartheid society or, in Pakistan's case, a mediaeval theocratic militant melee.

Britain that ensalved almost the entire world so that sun never sets in the empire pushing the natives to slavery and torture preaching about apartheid?? Seriously? Maybe that is what grates British...the fact that the same natives who were their slaves are now in driver seat and sun has finally and truly set in the empire 

[name]

What grates with me is that Britain is effectively financing the nuclear development of an apartheid society or, in Pakistan's case, a mediaeval theocratic militant melee.

Britain that ensalved almost the entire world so that sun never sets in the empire pushing the natives to slavery and torture preaching about apartheid?? Seriously? Maybe that is what grates British...the fact that the same natives who were their slaves are now in driver seat and sun has finally and truly set in the empire 

It must be so difficult to walk with the weight of that chip pressing down on your shoulder

[Old Mike]

It is an unfortunate fact that there are far more people starving in India now, after more than 60 years of Democratic rule of a united subcontinent than there were when the British ruled over a number of states occupying the same area.

[T2K]

I quit reading when she said "enslaved" (well, actually, she spelled it incorrectly but I knew what she meant).

If we use figures on literacy, disease, starvation, death by violence, etc - then most of Africa and Asia was much better off under European colonialism.  In the late 1940's, for example, then-Burma had the highest per capita income in Asia.  Then came independence...

But, frankly speaking, I can see why Asians (including India, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and Bangladesh) and Africans prefer failures standing on their own to success while being under foreign rule. 

Japan, obviously, is the shining example of a highly successful Asian nation which was never colonized.  The US is the best example of a nation that threw out the the colonizers by force and succeeded.  Singapore, I think, is the best example of a nation which was granted independence and used it well.  Most did not.