Posted on 07/22/2013 5:31:52 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BRITAIN is splurging an extra £39million on fighting climate change abroad — as squeezed taxpayers face more austerity at home.
The hike was branded a “total waste of money” after being uncovered by The Sun.
The UK will dole out £969 million on foreign green projects — including wind farms in Africa and forestry in Nepal — by 2015-16, up from £930million a year earlier.
Brigg and Goole MP Andrew Percy added: “Constituents will accept it if it is being spent stopping people starving — not silly budgets like this one.”
But a Government spokesman said: “We cannot have food security, water security or energy security unless the world tackles climate change.”
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Sheeeeyit. That won't even pay for a typical Obama weekend getaway.
Didn’t it cost something like 100 million USD for his last excursion to Africa?
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