One small step for India, one giant leap for the UK tax payer

According to The Telegraph, “India, China, Japan and possibly America are engaged in a race to a new frontier, starting with the Moon.”

Indeed, it was this week that India’s Chandrayaan-1 probe and data from two other spacecraft confirmed the presence of water on the moon.

However, what still remains a mystery is why British tax payers are forking out over £800 million to feed India’s poor, when their Chandrayaan space craft cost over £50 million to build.

In fact, India is one of the single largest recipients of foreign aid under the Department for International Development’s UK Aid programme. A lot of publicity has been given recently to Gordon Clown’s announcement that £825 million is being given to India in aid, however what it not mentioned is the fact that over the last 5 years the UK taxpayer has already provided India with over a billion pounds.

You have to wonder when the madness will end?