Not entirely...... the trappings of wealth are very attractive to these corrupt officials and politicians,..... check out the up market bars, shops, restaurants, hotels and estate agents in London,.... they will give you a few clues to who is buying what. My cousin used to own the beauty salon...
Listen you silly boy,..... instead of posturing and knocking people down, just go and read a bit of background on this subject. Overseas aid to many 'developing' nations is stolen by officials and politicians in the tens of millions within almost every recipient country you care to name. Google...
Good grief Prague.... You know that he is right, the mainstream parties all have their idiots, who make cretinous public statements.....you are being selective......but it was a statement with idiotic overtones that's for sure.
Wrong end of the stick.....I know we have no British owned logging in Brazil, I buy plenty of mahogany, most of it Brazilian,....(I am a woodturner and carpenter in my spare time)....we are however the biggest buyers of Brazilian wood, but the British timber importers simply buy it on the open...
Yes, a generalisation, but not completely without some component of truth in there somewhere......I think that's probably what he was trying to say,..... we could all, however, have done without his casual and lazy euphemisms, but he is only an MEP.
" a few stupid and crass generalisations/lies about what aid is spent on."
.....and who was being arsy? you have a bit of paranoia there,....its a debate sir.
His style of presentation was indeed crass....however for you to casually dismiss the key point he was making about who spends what on what, is in itself crass and ill-informed. It has has been the subject of many public and political debate over the years, the examples like Parisian apartments...