I was always taught that charity begins at home!
Obviously preceding governments and this one would rather give away our hard earned tax £'s let's face it those in power have never had to live on minimum wage and have little if no real idea of money and how it works.
Do/should we feel obliged because of our past for what we took from other countries or should we now say "enough is enough"
IIRC we give 0.5% of GDP to foreign aid, that is about £10-12 billion a year and rising all the time, one wonders what the actual return for this for this type of "investment"
Oh and Arfur, congrats on sussing out linkages
long may you remember
