9. 9. UKIP Wales Debate: The Foreign Aid Budget

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 6:39 pm on 17 May 2017.

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Photo of David Rowlands David Rowlands UKIP 6:39, 17 May 2017

Well, if there’s any bile in this Chamber, it’s just come from the gentleman who just sat down in his appalling personal attacks on other AMs in this Chamber. Absolutely disgraceful. [Interruption.] Absolutely disgraceful.

Of the £250 million in aid we sent to Ethiopia last year, only a tiny proportion went to wealth creation. In other words, we’re not helping these countries to become self-sufficient, but rather tying them into a never-ending spiral of dependency on foreign aid. Our great efforts in providing better health, education and sanitation has caused a population explosion, doubling in Ethiopia from 74 million in 1990, to 134 million today. The tragedy is: almost all of them will have very little quality of life.