As the British economy flounders and British people struggle to get by, Labour Prime Minister Andy Burnham has somehow managed to find tens of millions of pounds to spend on foreign projects for other people’s benefit.
Burnham announced this week that he had approved £40 million in infrastructure and green energy projects for Caribbean countries.
Just weeks after kicking the can down the road on defence spending in Chancellor John Healey’s disastrous Budget, Burnham is revealing where his government's real priorities lie. International point scoring and promoting his crippling Net Zero policies are evidently higher on the list than his own citizens.
As Reform UK Shadow Chancellor Robert Jenrick pointed out, the contrast between Labour’s approach to defence spending and foreign aid is striking. In September, the government “suspended Army exercises to save £30 million”. And yet just two months later, the government decided “to give £40 million to Caribbean countries for ‘green projects’”.
Burnham announced this week that he had approved £40 million in infrastructure and green energy projects for Caribbean countries.
Just weeks after kicking the can down the road on defence spending in Chancellor John Healey’s disastrous Budget, Burnham is revealing where his government's real priorities lie. International point scoring and promoting his crippling Net Zero policies are evidently higher on the list than his own citizens.
As Reform UK Shadow Chancellor Robert Jenrick pointed out, the contrast between Labour’s approach to defence spending and foreign aid is striking. In September, the government “suspended Army exercises to save £30 million”. And yet just two months later, the government decided “to give £40 million to Caribbean countries for ‘green projects’”.
The decision looks suspiciously like slavery reparations by the backdoor, given the timing. Burnham pledged the money as Caribbean leaders pressed Britain for compensation at the Commonwealth summit in Antigua – where King Charles III opened the event by apologising for Britian’s role in the transatlantic slave trade.
Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage said: “I feel sorry for the King. At the Commonwealth Conference he's been put in a very difficult position by our Prime Minister. Very left-wing Caribbean governments are trying it on with us. In fact, they want us to pay up to £8 trillion in reparations payments over the next few years.”
Rather than bankrolling the commonwealth’s economy at the expense of the hardworking British taxpayer, a Reform government would instead ban visas from any country that continues to demand reparations from Britain.
A British government must put the British people first – instead of caving to every demand that we get on our knees.
Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage said: “I feel sorry for the King. At the Commonwealth Conference he's been put in a very difficult position by our Prime Minister. Very left-wing Caribbean governments are trying it on with us. In fact, they want us to pay up to £8 trillion in reparations payments over the next few years.”
Rather than bankrolling the commonwealth’s economy at the expense of the hardworking British taxpayer, a Reform government would instead ban visas from any country that continues to demand reparations from Britain.
A British government must put the British people first – instead of caving to every demand that we get on our knees.
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