A billion pounds?

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babysimon: "You could do a lot of good with £1bn"

How would you spend a billion pounds in order to do good? You can't spend it on yourself or your friends.

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[nickys.livejournal.com]

> I can't understand how it could be that cheap and not be done yet.

You and me both. :-(


Though you'll recall that prior to the landmine (partial) ban there were a lot of vested interests in and around government claiming "The issues are complex and we shouldn't rush into anything..."

And any suggestion to increase NHS funding always gets a variation on "We could do more, but where would it stop?"

So I'm guessing it'll be something like that.
My best guess is that our economic model is partially based on having cheap labour abroad and that improving people's living conditions and (especially) education gives them options other than to be cheap labour.