I donât condone the actions of individuals but Iâm having difficulties understanding why Oxfam are being hauled over the coals - although appreciate they have a duty to ensure staff act ethically.
When I see these sort of stories I automatically think about whatâs really going on here in the background, especially when the government wades in.
Yeah I was thinking the same. I support Oxfam when I can, often dump stuff in their Romsey shop. Itâs like saying youâll not be supporting democracy because of corrupt politicians.
Actually Iâve been shouting at clouds all winter. They have dumped so much water on our twice daily doggie walks the dog needs his paws washed after every excursion. He could die!..eventually.
The whole furore about Oxfam is just another diversion by the Government to avert eyes away from their disastrous policies which are dragging this country into the mire. Ooh look over there - a squirrel! They are just responding to the dog whistling from the Mail and Express in their campaigns to stop overseas aid. The idea that Priti Patel, the honourable member for Tel Aviv, Penny Mordaunt, the member for Jerusalem, indeed any of the right wing rabble currently in Government care two hoots about exploited women in the third world is risible.
While in no way defending the behaviour of the few rogue Oxfam workers, if the Government are threatening to withold funding from Oxfam because a few aid workers used prostitutes, can we assume that this principle will be applied consistently across the board to all recipients of public money? There will be some huge savings to be made in the MOD budget if we hold the army and navy to the same standards. Of course the Governmentâs "moral concern"is politically selective in itâs targets. I am willing to bet that more MPs use prostitutes than do aid workers. Do we withold public funding for them? And listening to Ministers criticising Oxfam while at the same time supporting wholesale slaughter in Yemen, for example, makes me want to puke.
Us oldies have been saying this for years. We are a generation whose only medication growing up was Detol on a pad of cotton wool when you fell over and grazed your knee and Vic ointment on your chest for a cold. Didnât know a single kid with an allegy when I was at school.
Couldnât decide whether to put this in the Syria thread or the Yemen thread or the Qatar thread or start a Saudi thread, so Iâll pop it here instead:
Post it in all 3 and start a new thread, it applies to all.
The visit heralds an interesting change in power politics - arguably it heralds the era where post Brexit we will now have to assume the position and take it up the arse compared to when we had any influence in the world and made Johnny Foreigner do the same. I sense the wheel turning.
Pep Guardiola gets a ÂŁ20,000 fine after admitting the charge of wearing a yellow ribbon, ostensibly in support of the incarcerated Catalonian politicians and their human rights.
I might have more sympathy for him if he wasnât being a tad hypocritical. Remind me who owns Man City? Oh yes, an autocratic Middle Eastern regime who locks people up without trial.