Should Foreign aid be dropped? - its time we looked after the UK.

Charity begins at home -

We should start spending at home

We could an awful lot with £12.2 billion -  that's our Foreign aid budget, put that with the £14 billion we will save fron EU donations post Brexit and that's a lot of money we can spend at home, in the UK.

They say charity begins at home and the time has now come to shut  our foreign aid budget down and start spending the money in the UK.

We have faced years of cuts to services  in the UK, yet at the same juncture, we are sending money to oil rich countries like Bahrain, how mad is that?

We give to countries that have space programs - why?

If they can afford this they don't need our money

If a country has a space program then they don't need our aid, yet thanks to external directives issued beyond our shores, we seem obliged to give where it is not needed.

We give aid to China -

This is madness!

Yes, you couldn't make it up, we give foreign aid to the second wealthiest nation in the world - China.

Africa should by now after trillions of dollars of aid be at a level of development equal to modern European nations. Yet we keep tipping buckets of the stuff out, unaccountable 'gifts' which are not administered, allow rife corruption, which seems to be the norm.

Giving to help with incidents is one thing, but we now need to put the UK first if we want a secure future.