UK threatens to cut aid over gay rights

[NotStan]

Andrespetmonkey said:

NotStan said:

Andrespetmonkey said:

NotStan said:
Cameron is a dickwad tbh.

Not that I am against Gay rights or anything, but really, it's country's own business how they go about with the rights et all, really need to stop meddling in external affairs and do something right about UK.

I disagree, I think encouraging human rights is the right thing to do. It's hardly meddling in external affairs, it's not direct, just encouragement of gay rights, will actually save the UK some money.

Really, I wouldn't doubt that Cameron gives even less shit about gay's rights than the Saudi Arabia's king, it's just a whole media fiasco to attempt to get the gay vote in UK, god know he needs it after the whole fiasco versus women which he is still trying to fix - by sitting his conservative women MP's behind him on the podium for all media to see.

It won't do anything, empty threats, instead of making those he should be running the country more effectively rather than screwing it over, reform after reform.

Even if he doesn't really give a shit and it's totally fake, it's still having a good effect no?
What has Cameron done to screw over the country? (Sincere question, I actually don't know that much about our country's politics)

Well uni fee's spring to mind as a first, I was one of the lucky ones to dodge the bullet but next year the fees will go up considerably, therefore doing what? Deterring future generations from attending university - although the main difference is the size of the loan(Which they'll end up paying off for the rest of their lives) many would still be deterred by that fact alone.

-My beef with that is the fact that it benefits the rich immensely - those who pay the fees up front, they mostly afford the children to go to school at 15k/year, 9k/uni doesn't seem as bad.

Not putting any pressure in regards to the banks, bonuses et all still exist, kinda messed up when people get laid off and failing banks reward CEOs with millions of pounds worth of bonus - despite the fact that bank had reported losses and is majorly owned by the taxpayer.

Taking away perks and benefits from the poor and struggling, such as tax credit for young families - increasing the VAT to 20%, removing EMA with some other messed up scheme.

Cutting spending on NHS - it's shit enough as it is when people have to wait hours for treatment, without extra funding I don't even want to go near NHS hospital - oh and rich with insurance and private healthcare are not affected by such things by the way.

Vain leadership - ie the previous example of moving women up front whenever he does a speech to make appeal to women.

Or in general, driving a country towards benefiting those who have already managed to get somewhere and preventing those that do want to go places from going much further, and also pretty much allowing inflation to flourish, just talk no action. Unemployment figures are insanely high and increasing.

^And that's only what I can recall off the top of my head or bothered reading about.