This is another story that is roiling the U.K.: “Billions in aid handed to terrorists and criminals.” Sounds just like us:
Terrorists, hostile states and gangsters have been given more than £28bn of taxpayers’ money, including through aid payments, according to a secret government report.
The Telegraph can reveal details of a dossier showing that billions of pounds went to organised crime, with millions going to Russia and Islamic State.
It demonstrates that foreign aid and Covid relief loans were appropriated on a vast scale by Britain’s enemies, with the money beyond reach and those who took it unpunished.
More than £28bn ended up in the hands of those wishing to harm Britain between 2015 and 2021, according to the report, which was commissioned and produced by the Cabinet Office but was buried during the previous government.
Sources said it was never made public to save the government from the political embarrassment of revealing the huge scale of misdirected funds.
More:
It includes:
* Grants given to companies linked to the Russian state
* Covid loans sent to Islamic State terrorists
* Investment in research for companies linked to the Chinese military
It wasn’t just foreign enemies. Britain’s government funded criminal gangs, too:
A large proportion of the misappropriated funds went to criminal gangs, including human-traffickers claiming housing benefits and disability allowances.
This is suggestive, to say the least:
Sources said they believed there was also some overlap between some of the organised crime groups and hostile states. They said there had been a concerted effort to obtain British public funds made by an organised crime network linked to Eastern Europe.
The gang was backed by a hostile state to encourage illegal immigration into the UK, sources said.
Hold on! A hostile state funded a criminal network to “encourage illegal immigration into the U.K.,” using government money? Sounds like a bombshell. What does the Starmer government have to say about it?
They declined to give further details, citing sensitivities surrounding the intelligence.
I suppose “sensitivities” is putting it mildly.
The pattern in Britain sounds similar to what we have seen in the U.S., in particular in Minnesota. Government employees write checks wantonly, because it isn’t their money and because they believe their role in the world is simply to write checks. Nearly all liberals harbor an absurd belief that government spending intrinsically makes the world a better place. Beyond that, liberals who work for government, like liberals elsewhere, are often hostile to their own country and don’t mind financing or otherwise supporting hostile powers. If they cared, it wouldn’t happen.
