Comic Relief

[mr motorola]

In our current economic market , isn't it nice that we can donate millions upon millions of pounds EVERY year to Africa.? With the age old adage from the presenters that our money will change their lives......forever. And yet the following year it all happens again!!!! "your money will do this , your money will do that...it will change someones life forever..."

Come on now for christs sake , don't these people know how to look after themselves , especially with all the money that is pumped into their country either by charities or our own government every year on year on year on year..?

 

Is someone taking the preverbial p1ss?

 

We have companies going under in our OWN country , people striving to make ends meet and what do we do , bung a national red nose day on the telly and stick little montages together to appeal to the better side of your heart and forget that our own country is knackered , but , what the hey , there's always someone else worse off than you. TRUE. Nothing to do with the amount of funding that has been sent their way over 20 years from one charity alone. We can afford it can't we?

 

Mr M , rather annoyed.

[Clifftop]

Agree but it's not always money thats given by the government it's aid which can be in the form of manufactured items that are made in the UK therefore helping your manufacturing industry

 

and the people employed by that industry.

 

To be honest i have long held the believe that only a small part of any monies or food items given actually get to the people who need it most.

 

Starting off with the government then government employees then distributors and the then their empoyees the initial amount slowly dwindles until there is not much left for the poor s@ds at the end of the line.

 

 

Cheers Fred

[corydoras]

With all due respect Mr M, but hard times or not, what people do with their own money is nobody's business but their own.

[mr motorola]

Agree but it's not always money thats given by the government it's aid which can be in the form of manufactured items that are made in the UK therefore helping your manufacturing industry

 

and the people employed by that industry.

 

To be honest i have long held the believe that only a small part of any monies or food items given actually get to the people who need it most.

 

Starting off with the government then government employees then distributors and the then their empoyees the initial amount slowly dwindles until there is not much left for the poor s@ds at the end of the line.

 

 

Cheers Fred

I've just watched a little ditty , Lenny talking about a family of 11 in a little hut , the mother / grandmother (not sure) had to sleep stood up??? I'll have to try that one....

 

Also , after the little heart rending episode , Lenny said that £50 could feed the full family for a month , £25 could re-house them , so as you say , £54 million so far tonight would / should seem to cover a fair lump of their problems but it obviously dosen't as they have to do another charity sometime / somewhere else.

 

But what really bugs me is that charity starts at home , always has always will. Pardon me for being selfish but it's the way i've been brought up.

 

It's startling (to me anyway) of the amount of monies / aides / help that is always in the papers and news that is being sent over to africa and whenever an advert pops up on the tv about the said , it shows poverty beyond belief.

 

It has to be one of three things

1.We are not donating enough to them

2.Someone is taking more than they should along the bureaucratic red tape of passing the money over

3. They don't seem to be able to stop pro-creating , as i said above 11 ELEVEN !!! in one tin hut. I could donate a TV or 2 to keep them busy at night....

 

Or it could be a case of all 3 of the above , if that's the case then we're all knackered and we'll be contributing our hard earned money overseas for a long long time.

[Guest Brumagem Phil]

With all due respect Mr M, but hard times or not, what people do with their own money is nobody's business but their own.

 

 

Well said!

[les middy]

Thats why mine stops in my pocket, sod em

 

A whole lorry load of rubbers or a load of stanley knife blades and fix them for good

Edited March 14, 2009 by les middy

[five bellies]

Well said!

 

 

I will second that

[Newt]

I've often wondered about moving some place where £50 would feed us for a month. I think my retirement income would keep us living in pretty good style if things were that cheap.

[kleinboet]

When comic relief started, it was said that the money would not leave here it would be us in this country.................................... Sadly - half is now being sent to Africa.

I notice that South Africa has joined the ranks of the "open hand"

 

 

At one time, the only three countries in Africa still under white rule (South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe) used to supply food to the whole continent!!! Alas - no more!!

[Ken L]

I agree with both camps.

 

If someone chooses to donate money to Africa, that is entirely their own afair - although I think that they should consider how much of it acually ends up lining the pockets of local warlords and fixers.

 

Africa is the second-largest and second most-populous continent on earth and contains 53 countries. It is rich in resourses and it needs to sort out its own problems in it's own way because 30 years of handouts clearly hasn't worked and will never work.

 

As of right now, comic relief 2009 has raised a total of £57m - a tiny fraction of the personal wealth of the motley collection of musicians and celebs fronting the show.

Actually, I don't need to finnish this argument, it finnishes itself.