Oooft.
Schoolboy error from @Watch_The_Break and his credibility down the student Union will surely suffer as a result.
Very embarrassing.
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The post-fact world Dim Riggins so wholeheartedly supports beautifully lampooned by @Watch_The_Break. 
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British taxpayers’ money used to fund brutal dictators
BRITISH taxpayers have unknowingly been funding violence and repression across the globe, while dictators such as Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe owe the UK billions of pounds.
By CHARLOTTE MEREDITH
00:00, Wed, Nov 28, 2012
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Brutal dictator Robert Mugabe owes Britain millions in loans
Brutal dictator Robert Mugabe owes Britain millions in loans []
£2.35billion of loans handed out to foreign countries without any form of regulation – including payments to Iran, Burma and North Korea – remain unpaid, an MPs’ investigation has found.
Much of the money has been spent on British-made arms, which are then used to control citizens of repressive regimes.
The funds were handed out by UK Export Finance (UKEF) – once dubbed the ‘department of dodgy deals’ – which lends foreign governments money to buy British goods.
UKEF insisted it “abides by international agreements that apply to the operations of export credit agencies, including those on anti-bribery, environmental, human rights and social impacts and sustainable lending.”
However, the investigation also revealed that the organisation, which makes no human rights or environmental checks on loans under £10million, also supplied money for the BP-backed Baku-Tblisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline, which breached 170 World Bank and European standards on human rights and the environment.
Let no British taxpayer flatter herself or himself that they are helping Rwanda. No, you are merely extending their misery
The news follows a former senior aide to Rwanda’s president claiming that British foreign aid to the country is “funding a dictator”.
Earlier this week David Himbara, who was private secretary to President Paul Kagame until two years ago, said the £270million of British aid that will be given to the country over the next three years is “sustaining a bad regime.”
Kagame’s regime is alleged to be funding and arming a bloody rebellion in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Britain has promised aid for President Kagame at a rate of more than £80million a year until 2015.
“Britain is not funding Rwanda. It is funding a dictator. Let no British taxpayer flatter herself or himself that they are helping Rwanda. No, you are merely extending their misery,” Mr Himbara said, speaking to Channel 4’s Dispatches programme.
Britain’s multi-billion-pound ring-fenced foreign aid budget is rising every year, despite David Cameron coming under fierce criticism.
International Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell – who developed a close friendship with President Kagame – allowed a £16million package to be handed over on his last day in office before being replaced in the September reshuffle.
Last month, Mr Cameron defended the decision to unfreeze the latest £16million tranche of aid.
He said: "I am clear, Rwanda has been, and continues to be, a success story of a country that has gone from genocide and disaster to being a role model for development and lifting people out of poverty in Africa.
“I am proud of the fact that the last government, and this government, have continued to invest in that success.”
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Whatever happened to that Kony chap?
That’s the nuts and the bolts if it right there.
Adams and mcginnnis surrendering to the brits and taking the queens shilling should have made them rethink the whole philosophy but no, there’s always a little backwards utopia somewhere in the world where a tyrannical dictator is carrying on their funny little socialist ideals.
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He’s running the FBI now.
Do any of ye commies or fascists have base ethics or morals. Seems not .
I’m pro-dictator.
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She could veto it if she wanted, but she didn’t, so was obviously glad to give Mugabe the gong.
So who was it that proposed Mugabe for the knighthood? Ah yes, it was Sir John Major, then leader of your beloved Conservative Party. Look forward to you trying to explain your way out of this one.
there will always be some nutcase somewhere trying to impose his socialist ideas, at the end of a gun of course, but these lefty headbangers love that
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Soz @glasagusban
I had to take preemptive action in order to protect myself from some smart ass.
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Good for you . A bit of honesty . Don’t like them myself but I always had a small soft spot for Tito.
Great that you’re so anti-gun, mate. A real lefty liberal.
Think it’s @Tassotti you meant, mate.
His ass wasn’t so smart after he passed out on that park bench.
In 1994, when he was considered on an almost similar international standing to Mandela.
You don’t seem to get this.
His Knighthood was stripped of him when his flagrant human rights, land theft, political suppression, murder et cetera came to the fore.
These are traits that the left have decided to embrace with Fidel.
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I love seeing Socialist whataboutery. Yes Castro ruled 11m Cubans with a gun but whatabout all the guns in America.
I wonder which of these dreamers will be the first to come out with it.
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Did you get in your time machine and go back and engage public opinion towards Mugabe or is that based on something more substantive?
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