Education Budget Slashed but ConDems Give £650m to Pakistani Schools
Dhimmi Dave Cameron is giving £650 million to fund Pakistani schools despite slashing England’s higher education budget by £449 million this year.
The move is being made by Cameron in order to make up for supposedly “offending” Muslims last year, when he accused Pakistan of “looking both ways” on terror.
The amount exceeds the previously promised doubling of British aid to Pakistan, which was already set to rise to £446 million a year, making the country the biggest beneficiary of British taxpayers.
Britain will have no control over which schools the money will go to, raising fears that it will be sent to madrasas to teach terrorist doctrines.
David Cameron defended the payments, saying it was “in our interest” to help Pakistan.
“If Pakistan is a success, we’ll have a good friend to trade and invest and deal with. If we fail, we’ll have all the problems of migration, of extremism, problems that we don’t want to see. So it’s in our interest that Pakistan succeeds,” he said, presumably suggesting that we are now somehow going to see a decrease in Pakistani immigration despite the Tories’ open-doors border policy.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said he believed a “root cause” of terrorism was illiteracy, rather than the extremist nature of Islam.
As well as the huge cash gift, Britain is also to give Pakistan highly sensitive technology to help combat roadside bombs to the Pakistani intelligence service (ISI), despite the widely held belief that they are funding and arming the Taliban.
Cameron will also be spending millions on a training centre for Pakistan’s soldiers and spies near Peshawar, a hotbed of militancy. The prime minister avoided questions asking whether he could guarantee that the technology wouldn’t be handed over to the Taliban by the ISI.
During his visit to an Islamabad university, Cameron compounded the situation by blaming Britain for the ongoing conflict between Pakistan and India. Speaking about the disputed Kashmir province, he said, “As with so many of the world’s problems, we are responsible for the issue in the first place.”
The news of the huge payment comes as it is revealed that more British universities intend to charge the maximum £9,000-a-year tuition fees in order to combat cuts in funding.
More than two-thirds of universities now setting fees for 2012 intend to charge a £9,000 flat rate for all courses. Most others, including some of the lowest-ranked universities in the country, want to charge undergraduates more than £8,000 per year.
The higher education budget is set so be slashed by a staggering 40 per cent over the next four years, which will see funding plummet from £7.1 billion to £4.2 billion, a third of the amount currently given away to other countries in foreign aid.
The move is being made by Cameron in order to make up for supposedly “offending” Muslims last year, when he accused Pakistan of “looking both ways” on terror.The amount exceeds the previously promised doubling of British aid to Pakistan, which was already set to rise to £446 million a year, making the country the biggest beneficiary of British taxpayers.
Britain will have no control over which schools the money will go to, raising fears that it will be sent to madrasas to teach terrorist doctrines.
David Cameron defended the payments, saying it was “in our interest” to help Pakistan.
“If Pakistan is a success, we’ll have a good friend to trade and invest and deal with. If we fail, we’ll have all the problems of migration, of extremism, problems that we don’t want to see. So it’s in our interest that Pakistan succeeds,” he said, presumably suggesting that we are now somehow going to see a decrease in Pakistani immigration despite the Tories’ open-doors border policy.
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani said he believed a “root cause” of terrorism was illiteracy, rather than the extremist nature of Islam.
As well as the huge cash gift, Britain is also to give Pakistan highly sensitive technology to help combat roadside bombs to the Pakistani intelligence service (ISI), despite the widely held belief that they are funding and arming the Taliban.
Cameron will also be spending millions on a training centre for Pakistan’s soldiers and spies near Peshawar, a hotbed of militancy. The prime minister avoided questions asking whether he could guarantee that the technology wouldn’t be handed over to the Taliban by the ISI.
During his visit to an Islamabad university, Cameron compounded the situation by blaming Britain for the ongoing conflict between Pakistan and India. Speaking about the disputed Kashmir province, he said, “As with so many of the world’s problems, we are responsible for the issue in the first place.”
The news of the huge payment comes as it is revealed that more British universities intend to charge the maximum £9,000-a-year tuition fees in order to combat cuts in funding.
More than two-thirds of universities now setting fees for 2012 intend to charge a £9,000 flat rate for all courses. Most others, including some of the lowest-ranked universities in the country, want to charge undergraduates more than £8,000 per year.
The higher education budget is set so be slashed by a staggering 40 per cent over the next four years, which will see funding plummet from £7.1 billion to £4.2 billion, a third of the amount currently given away to other countries in foreign aid.
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