With all due respect, overseas aid is not really the issue. It's a comparative drop in the ocean next to the "social" and NHS budgets. These are the elements that need tackling. For as long as it's better to be paid not to work or for as long as the NHS remains the UK's sacred cow, unable to be reformed by any political party, then we are all up the creek.
Let's face it even Defence at a purported £40B is a comparative drop in the ocean in against to these 2 behemoths! If I read it correctly then MPs are voting to limit the non-pension welfare bill to £120B or 3 times the Defence budget!! Think about it, that's circa £2K for every man, woman and child in the UK. I'm not sure where "my" 2K is going.
Last edited by Roland Pulfrew; 27th Mar 2014 at 12:17.