With No 10 saying aid to India is continuing and that's it (talk about a duff ear for politics), calm down and relax to this. Enjoy.
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PurpleScorpion 1 day ago (via thepurplescorpion.blogspot.com)
This India thing: how incompetent do you have to be not to be able to give money away? And that's not the best of it. Sources in Delhi suggested British officials begged India to accept the aid. One commented: 'They said British ministers had spent political capital justifying the aid to their electorate.Yes, indeed: we're all in this together and got to tighten our belts, but we need to fight har...
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HouseofDumb 1 day ago (via houseofdumb.blogspot.com)
Development secretary Andrew Mitchell says he will not bow to pressure to cut funds after France was preferred in a bid for a fighter jet contract
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FT 2 days ago (via ft.com)
So, does India want the UK’s aid or not? If you believe the Indian finance minister, Pranab Mukherjee, the funds are unnecessary, ‘peanuts’ even. The Daily Telegraph reports that British ministers ‘begged’ the Indian government to take the money. The story is likely to garner attention, especially as aid to a growing power like India is a contentious proposition. But ...
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Spectator 3 days ago (via spectator.co.uk)
India's Finance Minister has described British aid as "peanuts" and said that his country "does not require" it.
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Telegraph 3 days ago (via telegraph.feedsportal.com)
David Cameron tells MPs he will do everything he can to persuade India to place a major air force order with British companies rather than French.
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BBCPolitics on 1st Feb 2012 (via bbc.co.uk)
UK prime minister vows to encourage India to reconsider its decision to buy France’s Dassault jet fighter instead of Eurofighter’s Typhoon
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FT on 1st Feb 2012 (via ft.com)
Industry leaders say the proposed deal will restrict access to one of the most important but highly protected markets
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FT on 29th Jan 2012 (via ft.com)