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With taxes at staggering levels and working families struggling to make ends meet, Britons up and down the country will be shocked that their hard-earned money is being spent on sending electric cars to prisons in Albania...
The UK spends around £15 billion a year on overseas aid, £9 billion of which is from the Foreign Office.
After the US, which suspended foreign aid and funding, it seems that such a version could also be applied by the United Kingdom.
President Donald Trump hired billionaire Elon Musk to head the Department of Government Efficiency and has wasted no time in cutting funding for green and diversity, equity, and inclusion projects with the drop of a pen.
This scheme is also being sought to be applied in the United Kingdom where shocking abuses are coming to light around the world.
The call to cut foreign funding comes at a time when the Government is due to increase defence spending in the UK soon. Cutting off this funding could help boost the defence budget.
In an article, The Sun has listed some of the countries that have benefited from British foreign funding, including Albania. According to the article, last year Albania received 2.4 million pounds in just two projects. However, full data on projects funded for non-governmental organizations or other bodies has not yet been published, to make an assessment of how many million pounds Albania could lose from the cessation of foreign funding from the United Kingdom.
The UK Foreign Office has also offered £500,000 of taxpayers’ money to buy 15 electric vans for Albanian prisons, secured through a local Porsche dealer. The contract was intended to help the Balkan country as part of a wider greening initiative.
Officials have also allocated £1.9 million to create jobs in Albania to stop its citizens leaving the country.
Former government adviser Jason Brown, who has launched The Waste Files campaign, said that with taxes at staggering levels and working families struggling to make ends meet, Britons up and down the country will be surprised that their hard-earned money is being spent on sending electric cars to prisons in Albania.
Referring to the data, it is revealed that in the last three years the United Kingdom has funded more than £133,000 to the Bangladesh Agricultural University to study the health of locusts.
The most recent payment of £59,000 to the Centre for the Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture was made in September.
In January 2024, the Department of Science paid £233,000 for “identifying barriers to mental health care for civilians affected by the armed conflict in Colombia”.
Last December, the Foreign Office paid a contractor £9.5m to support “accountability and inclusion” in the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo.
The department also funded a £110,000 conference on "preventing gender-based disinformation" in Kenya, and £473,070 for a Criminal Justice Advisor in Somalia.
A budget of £30 million has been set aside for "improving gender outcomes" in Nepal in a contract that runs until 2030.
The UK is under pressure to increase defence spending to 2.5 per cent of GDP or an extra £5 billion a year, as Vladimir Putin's forces gain ground in Ukraine and President Trump calls on NATO to increase spending to five per cent of GDP.
Britons are also paying for climate initiatives in foreign countries, including £114 million for “inclusive green enterprises” in India.
Activists have also showcased £25 million for “Green Urban Growth” in Somalia and £38 million for “Green Growth” in Nepal.
Around £5 million has been spent on “transforming feminist funding in Iraq”, £264,000 on “better understanding disinformation in Ethiopia” and £44,000 went to study Thailand’s alcohol policy.
Online experts have spent months studying contracts published on the Government's website to expose abuses.
Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to increase the military budget to 2.5 percent of GDP but has yet to set a timetable, amid fears it may not be hit before the election.
Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds said that "the whole cabinet, the whole government, I think most people in this country recognise the pressures that the world is under and that more will have to be spent on defence."
"The spending review will set the roadmap towards this objective."
In opposition, Labour pledged to curb excessive spending. / Adapted from The Sun Pamphlet /
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