I suppose SDSR 2015 or 16 will very much depend on the international climate at the time, regardless of what kind of make up of Government we have by then. Their response will be governed as much by their political mind set as much by circumstance.
pr00ne,
You are proof that how everyone sees matters all very much depends on their political stripe. I've never read anything suggesting that every pound we spend on overseas aid does ten times as much good as every pound spent on defence, apart from an interview with a Tory MP who alluded to this point. I don't know what unit of measurement has been used in determining quite such a precise comparison, but I've heard the line from the current Government, which I don't imagine you to be particularly fond of, is that what we spend on overseas aid is in effect money spent averting the need for military confrontation down the road into the future. Almost like some form of protection money. This suggests that if we don't spend on overseas aid, one day the otherwise beneficiaries will gang up on us and give us a good kicking. Before they do that they'll have to straighten out their economic plight surely!? And when they do I imagine they wont view our hitherto philanthropy as something to be allowed to get in the way of any wider disagreements.
Best Regards,
FB
