Category: Tory Threat
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Will Cameron apologise for his visit to apartheid South Africa?
Our latest post for Left Foot Forward. On the 20th anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s release from prison, the Prime Minister said in a statement that Mandela remains an example that gives people the hope to “struggle anew” for “justice and freedom for all”. David Cameron, however, was under pressure to apologise for a visit he made to apartheid…
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Tories call Robin Hood tax “hopelessly naive” – despite its backing by world economists
Our latest post for Left Foot Forward. It is just two days since the “Robin Hood” tax launched and already 23,000 people have voted in favour on the campaign’s online poll: 13,000 signed up by email and 21,500 joined the Facebook Fan page. The Financial Times reported yesterday that Gordon Brown believes the IMF will…
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Supporting Gareth Thomas MP, DfID Minister of State
For the General Election, LCID wants to do its bit to support Labour MPs, be they MPs known for their support of international development, or marginal seats where international development may be of particular importance to voters. This Saturday we went out on the streets of Harrow West to support DfID Minister of State Gareth…
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Why do the Tories want to copy Canada on International Development?
It would appear that the Tories are looking across the Atlantic for their ideas, but not to Washington and President Obama, but to Ottawa and the minority government of Stephen Harper. Earlier this month shadow Tory minister for International Development, Andrew Mitchell praised the approach of the Canadian government to international development. In an interview…
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Why have The Times got the knives out for DfID?
This post was first posted on Left Foot Forward. Following on from The Times’s coverage of the International Policy Network’s allegations against DfID’s funding of the TUC – allegations that Left Foot Forward showed to be unfounded – they have once again fuelled the aid sceptics’ fire with several leading articles in their paper today.…
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Guardian Editorial on the Tories plans on DfID and the MOD
Good editorial piece in The Guardian on the questions surrounding the concerns the Tories will divert the aid budget to the MoD… “International development: Coming to the aid of the party The Disasters Emergency Committee launched its appeal for Haiti yesterday. The earthquake death toll may never be known precisely. But the terrible cost of politically motivated…
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Allegations on TUC’s development role without foundation
Posted on Left Foot Forward on Friday A slew of recent articles seek to undermine the important and justifiable role for the Trades Union Congress in delivering development policy. On Monday, The Times reported that “The Government is giving the Trades Union Congress millions of pounds from its foreign aid budget to pay for the education…
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Article slamming Conservatives’ policies by Director of the UN’s Human Development Report Office
Fantastic article in today’s Guardian slamming the Conservatives’ policies on development by Kevin Watkins, Director of the UN’s Human Development Report Office, and former Head of Policy at Oxfam. Cameron’s slum dogma The Conservative plan for overseas aid treats Africa as a laboratory for free-market ideology You don’t win general elections in Britain by fighting…
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Left Foot Forward: Analysing the Tories’ false claims on development
This is first of many articles we hope to be writing for Left Foot Forward. On January 1st, Andrew Mitchell was interviewed in The Guardian outlining the Conservatives’ priorities on international development. Here Left Foot Forward analyses some of the Tory claims. Claim #1: DFID is too scattergun in its approach In the Conservatives’ Green…
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