Kolaveri in British paper over India choosing Rafale

February 01, 2012 17:29

Tim Shipman and Sue Reid have gone ballistic in the Daily Mail over India awarding the multi-billion dollar fighter jets to the French, despite Britain's one billion pound aid package.

Some of the points they make in their article:

Britain is sending 280million to India for each of the next four years, even though the country has more billionaires than Britain and has its own space programme.

The aid package is 15 times larger than the 18million France sent to India in 2009.

Such is the economic power of India that it now gives out more foreign aid than it receives, and has handed over 3.5'billion to cement relations with impoverished Africa.

Indians have squirrelled away more money in Swiss bank accounts (a total of 900'billion since independence from Britain in 1947) than the rest of the world combined.

India is racing up the league of rich nations. Indeed, its soaring economy will outstrip the UK's by 2022. According to financial advisers Merrill Lynch, India has 153,000 dollar-millionaires -- a 20 per cent rise in a year, compared with Britain's own paltry increase of less than one per cent.

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