UK announces £120m aid package for Sudan – as Lammy warns ‘much of the world continues to look away’
https://news.sky.com/story/uk-announces-120m-aid-package-for-sudan-as-lammy-warns-much-of-the-world-continues-to-look-away-13348938
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FFS Lammy, you delusional twat. The UK needs that £120m more than Sudan, where it will only line corrupt pockets.
Six years ago Lammy was publicly saying the world doesn’t need any more white saviours. Can’t now sit there and complain that there’s not enough.
Everyone has clearly been too focused on Israel/Palestine and Ukraine/Russia. Then again, it’s *only* Africa, so no-one cares.
Makes sense. Hope it actually gets to the people and not the corrupt politicians. If you want to look at the situation from a selfish point of view, not helping will make the migrant crisis worse with even more people heading our way.
Slightly off topic, but apparently this is the world’s greatest humanitarian disaster. Why haven’t we seen the same protests as the pro Palestine ones?
The UK could stop selling weapons to the UAE, which is responsible for the crisis in Sudan.
Why are we giving money to any country at this point? We’re stopping money to keep pensioners warm, we’re leaving disabled people to die, but we hand £5.4 billion for asylum seekers, £7.5 billion for foreigners on universal credit and now we’re giving £120 million to anther failed state. What’s, the pre-condition? Some local initiative that says it’s bad to move to the UK?
The world hates us, but we throw money at them like we’re getting something in return. What’s that get us? It gets us the UN siding against us ruling that we should give away our sovereign territory. That’s what! We have starving homeless Britons. Charity starts at home!
Like Band Aid 40 years ago, it solved absolutely nothing. Millions of UK money was wasted in Africa. What is wrong with this government ?? FFS.
Cheers lammy why don’t you make it a cool one billion pounds.
Fuck us lot in the UK, we don’t mind.
As horrible as it is to say I don’t think Britain is capable of carrying the rest of the world on its shoulders anymore
Man the vitriol in this thread, is the sub being brigaded by bots?
How are they pushing austerity on the vulnerable at home whilst sending that many millions in aid abroad?
12 million people in Sudan already displaced. Current estimates are around 25 million facing starvation due to famine. This is isn’t about altruism. Its about trying to mitigate the millions that will head to Europe and end up at Cali.
They really are deluded aren’t they. The UK is turning into a 3rd world bin fire and here’s the jet setting FS splurging tax payers millions on this.
The rulers must need an upgrade on their fleets of Mercedes.
Lammy sounds like Lemming…behaves like one tool. Some one needs to ask him why Sudan is such a priority to him, cough! There is Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, South Sudan, Lesotho, Niger, Burkina faso, Chad Myanmar, Yemen, Ukraine, Gaza, to name a few others, and then of course he could resign his post.
Absolutely disgusting. That money should be for us.
The cause of the Sudanese civil war
Ethnic and Religious Diversity: Sudan is characterized by a diverse population with various ethnicities and religious affiliations. …
You guessed it. Multiculturalism… can you think of another country that fits that description…..
Weird how the ‘anti genocide’ lot aren’t marching for the Sudanese every Saturday until something is done to stop it.
Good. It’s a real humanitarian crisis and 120m isn’t a ton in the scope of a counties finances.
Ideally we’d be trying our leverage versus the UAE, they need our companies and people, but if we can’t stop the cause we might as well put a plaster on it
Now if you think that actually yeah, we should just let civilians die and morals ain’t real, then from a pragmatic pov 120m is nothing to the uks budget, whilst theres a big geopolitical hole left out from the US in the MENA region. And it’s much better that the uks excises it’s influence here rather than brics.
I’m proud that we continue to do this.
We are contributing just 0.00975% of our national government expenditure to this crisis and it is one of the most cost effective ways to
a) save people’s lives.
b) project a altruistic view of the country in the minds of lots of people. Which is important due to our current isolation.
I’m curious how this will be spent. From an individual standpoint, buying things in poorer nations is extremely cheap. Would we see the same value for money on this scale too?
Additionally, is this money merely being handed over? Or spent on British products/services to send to Sudan for mutual benefit?
The humanitarian arguments are pretty good for this and it’s pennies in the budget but but the soft power arguments for this are extremely weak for this.
[x.comhttps://x.com › DavidLammy ](https://x.com/DavidLammy/status/1100807931233226752)27 Feb 2019 — The world does not need any more *white* saviours. As I’ve said before, this just perpetuates tired and unhelpful stereotypes.
Giving them £120 million is fine though when people in the UK are starving.
Lammy perfectly happy to look away from the atrocities in Gaza tho.
if every countries on the planet were fair n square and law’s were provided democracy and then there would be the less need to migrate to other countries for a better life.
But still supporting and complicit in Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the West Bank
Yeah, we are in debt, why are we paying for something that’s has nothing to do with us?