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Originally Posted by martyh
Maggie we don't have a bottomless pit of money to give away we have our own social and economic problems to deal with with less money to play with ,so something has to give and less foriegn aid is a start
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Rolling public services back to where they were in 2003 - 2005 is hardly comparable to many things our foreign aid finances.
Noteworthy also is that the foreign aid can and does yield returns of its' own - aid is a very regularly used diplomatic tool.
Nick Clegg
puts it better than me.