SIR – David Cameron is hellbent on increasing our foreign aid budget, so branding the UK a soft touch once again.
We now give more foreign aid than any other country in the world, while at the same time the taxpayers suffer through an age of austerity.
We are splashing out £8.7 billion this year and by 2014 that will rise to a staggering £12 billion. Can anyone prove that such vast amounts are not wasted or lost to corruption?
Britain is broke, our people are suffering, we are closing schools, hospitals, libraries, post offices, and cutting our defence budget and soldiers’ salaries. So why is he doubling foreign handouts?
By 2014, that will be more than £30 million every single day.
The Americans tell Pakistan, ‘If you don’t hand over more terrorists we will cut your aid’, while Britain says, ‘Have £400 million please’.
The latest reports show India to be the number one destination for overseas aid.
This a country with its own space programme, a nuclear programme, even its own foreign aid programme.
The British people already give more in overseas aid than any other country worldwide, so we don’t need any halo-seeking politicians to tax us more and give cash on our behalf.
They should get back to the day job – save this country, not the world G B DIPPER
Leominster
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