AID BRASIL: POBRES BRITÂNICOS A EMPOBRECER!

Good times: Brazil, famous for its carnival in Rio de Janeiro (pictured),
overtook Britain in the world's economic league table.

Entre enviar emigrantes e dinheiro, os britânicos, que também terão de apertar o cinto, nunca tiveram dúvidas, Mas agora, por isto e por aquilo, têm sempre muito do que se queixar, como se lê no título em inglês: «It's nuts! Revealed, how Britain is STILL giving aid to Brazil - even though it's richer than we are: Taxpayers are funding aid to Brazil even though it has become richer than Britain, Whitehall officials admitted yesterday. Millions has been handed over in development aid in recent years despite the rapid rise of Brazil to the top rank of world economies. And money is still going to the Latin American powerhouse in the week it was revealed to have overtaken Britain in the world’s economic league table.The continuing aid to Brazil comes against a background of deepening criticism of the Coalition’s foreign aid plans and its determination to keep raising spending on development in supposedly poor countries. David Cameron and his ministers are pledged to raise aid spending, currently worth £9billion a year and 0.57 per cent of national income, to 0.7 per cent. Aid spending went up by £1.24billion in the last financial year alone.» Steve Doughty