[TheDaddy]

Originally Posted by martyh

yeah ,you may want have a look at the real figures

http://www.ukan.org.uk/index.php?id=87

it's gone up every year for 5 years while almost every departmental budget in the uk has gone down

There not the real figures, well they might be but as with everything the devils in the detail, for a start there's no mention of tied aid, it including our contribution to the emergency aid disaster relief fund and the training of police in Afghanistan and Iraq for instance.

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Originally Posted by Paul M

Its 1% too high is what's wrong with it.

In your opinion, personally I'd like to know how we've come by this 0.7% figure, it seems to have been spouted about for years if not decades now, it seems like a strange figure to have come up with and stuck to.